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"My name is Vermont, I do what I want!" The Vermont Family was a roving band of anarcho-punks that helped build connective tissue linking the dispersed US anarchist milieu in the late 1980s. A fun little 🧵 #AnarchistHistory #RadicalHistory 1/
The Family originally came together within the “Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament,” in which hundreds of people walked from Los Angeles to Washington, DC over the course of nine months in 1986. 2/
While many of the liberals dropped out or retreated to cars, a core group of anarchists coalesced to form a traveling “anarchy village” which grew from 15 to around 70 or 80 people. They ran the village through consensus and promoted anarchist politics within the march. 3/
Smash the state and have a nice day! A poem from "Mob Action Against the State: Haymarket Remembered... an Anarchist Convention." This 1986 convention was a huge step forward for the rebirth of the US anarchist movement... #AnarchistHistory 🧵 
This national convention, held on the 100 year anniversary of the Haymarket riot in Chicago, was the first in a series of annual anarchist conferences that helped re-establish anarchism as a national political movement.
Attendees came from a variety of anarchist organizations and tendencies, including Fifth Estate, the IWW, the Minneapolis Backroom Anarchist Books (which soon spawned the Revolutionary Anarchist Bowling League) and many small collectives from across the US and Canada.
In the late 1980s, the Minneapolis-based Revolutionary Anarchist Bowling League (RABL) theorized and practiced what they called "revolutionary anarchism" and helped build an organized anarchist movement across North America. A short 🧵of #AnarchistHistory
In "Bowling for Beginners: An Anarchist Primer," RABL offers an initial definition of anarchism: "Anarchy is not chaos. Anarchy is the absence of imposed authority. Anarchy is a society that is built on the principles of respect, cooperation and solidarity...
Anarchy is wimmin controlling their own bodies, workers controlling their own workplaces, youth controlling their own education and the celebration of cultural difference." (reprinted in Love and Rage, Aug 1990)
Nicolaas Schermerhorn (1866-1956), nederlandse #anarchist predikant, schrijver, en pacifist, - Nicolaas was een invloedrijke spreker en activist in de antimilitaristische beweging, mobiliseerde de mensen in het tumultueuze 1918 en schreef en verdedigde voortdurend dienstweigering
Een stem van de vroege anarchistische beweging in de Lage Landen die het ontdekken waard kan zijn. Hieronder een stukje van hun tekst, - "Het christendom tegenover militarisme en oorlog" (linkje naar biografie ook: anarchisme.nl/namespace/nico…)
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"Waar het #Christendom komt met de prediking van liefde als hoogste gebod, waar het durft verkondigen der mensen broederschap, uitgedrukt in het bekende “gij zult uwe naasten liefhebben als uzelf”, daar is toch waarlijk geen diepzinnig betoog nodig om duidelijk te maken"
