Soldier statue torn down Thanksgiving night
After the sun set on Thanksgiving, we tore down a memorial to the US soldiers of the Spanish-American War in Riverview cemetery. [...] Death to America! For an anarchist anti-militarism!
After the sun set on Thanksgiving, we tore down a memorial to the US soldiers of the Spanish-American War in Riverview cemetery. [...] Death to America! For an anarchist anti-militarism!
From The Telegraph UK
In Huliaipole, near the counter-offensive front line, a statue of freedom fighter Nestor Makhno is an emblem of hard-won defiance
From Bulgarian News Agency
March 24, 2023
On March 3, 1953 a 19-year-old anarchist did the unthinkable and blew up the large monument of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin that stood in the central Sofia Freedom Park – now Boris' Garden – and survived. He lives to this day, aged 90.
from Antimídia via Contra Info
In different parts of the colonized territories, there's been tearing down, demolishing or destruction of statues of slavers, rapists, colonizers and genociders. Why let go of these symbols? What do they represent? And what values keeps them standing?
Are statues statist? Can they be useful to anarchists? The statue is an old device, likely as old as society. From folklore artifacts to fallen heroes to deities, they'll always be carrying their load of meaning that brings a narrative of sorts. And they are pervasive, and prevailing through time and context, and across distinct social arrangements.