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Halloween, or this Stranger Things of Americanization – get a costume, buy candy, go knock on the doors of your neighborhood (unless they’re a Jehovah Witness), have a party with friends, get drinks and food. This all sounds kind of lovely, but also there is so much to dislike about society and it’s continuation. I love friends, food, drinks, neighbors, masks, the darkness, autumn, fire, singing, dancing and the changing seasons are all wonderful and beautiful - it just seems like you might be one of the lucky ones if your town has some really fun anarchist Halloween parties in the times of rona (maybe I’ve become a giant nerd as growing older) vs. the total consumer driven holiday as most Americans experience it. Bah humbug.

One of my favorite spooky anarchists is the one and only official photographer of the anarchists, Kati Horna. Of her images that I’ve seen by digging the depths of the Internet to no end, none of them seem to be specifically Halloween themed, but many of them seem to have a spooky surrealist vibe to them, that brings to mind the spirit of what I picture Halloween to be.

Runners up = 1. pagan anarchists dancing around a giant bonfire (not Starhawk, but maybe Starhawk if they bring cool friends). 2. anarchist witchhouse music, whatever that means (I heard it’s good) 3. giving apples to kids = you’re either vegan straightedge and love Earth Crisis or you’re just terrible and hate kids. All three assertions are bad. 4. getting friends together each year to create Misfits cover band for Halloween show at the punk house. 5. Pumpkin pie is the greatest pie ever created. 6. And Furries (not anarchist!)