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See Sharp Press
Charles Bufe, better known as Chaz Bufe, is a contemporary American anarchist author. Bufe writes on a wide variety of topics, and has published 16 books, most under the See Sharp Press imprint but one ("Godless") was published by PM Press and another ("Dreams of Freedom") by AK Press. Life Bufe founded See Sharp Press in 1984 in San Francisco, then relocated to Tucson, Arizona, in 1992. In its approximately 40 years, See Sharp Press has published over 50 books, almost as many pamphlets, and over the last decade occasional e-book-only titles. The 16 books Bufe has authored, co-authored, compiled, edited, or translated have garnered favorable reviews in publications such as ''Publishers Weekly'' and ''Booklist'' (''Free Radicals''), '' Z Magazine'' (''Heretic's Handbook of Quotations''), ''Free Inquiry'' (''American Heretic's Dictionary''), and ''Guitar Player'' and ''Jazz Player'' (''An Understandable Guide to Music Theory''), and 11 are still in print. Bufe's ''American Heretic's D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Anarchist
Anarchism is a political philosophy and Political movement, movement that seeks to abolish all institutions that perpetuate authority, coercion, or Social hierarchy, hierarchy, primarily targeting the state (polity), state and capitalism. Anarchism advocates for the replacement of the state with Stateless society, stateless societies and voluntary Free association (communism and anarchism), free associations. A historically left-wing movement, anarchism is usually described as the libertarian wing of the socialist movement (libertarian socialism). Although traces of anarchist ideas are found all throughout history, modern anarchism emerged from the Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment. During the latter half of the 19th and the first decades of the 20th century, the anarchist movement flourished in most parts of the world and had a significant role in Labour movement, workers' struggles for emancipation. #Schools of thought, Various anarchist schools of thought formed during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Vancouver Five
The Squamish Five (sometimes referred to as the Vancouver Five) were a group of self-styled "urban guerrillas" active in Canada during the early 1980s. Their chosen name was Direct Action. The five were Ann Hansen, Brent Taylor, Juliet Caroline Belmas, Doug Stewart and Gerry Hannah. Campaigns The group's first action was in 1982: vandalizing the British Columbia Ministry of Environment offices. They began training with stolen weapons in a deserted area north of Vancouver and stole a large cache of dynamite belonging to the Department of Highways. On the morning of May 30, 1982, Hansen, Taylor, and Stewart travelled to Vancouver Island and set off a large bomb at the Dunsmuir BC Hydro substation. The damage was extensive, causing over $3 million CAD in damage and leaving four transformers damaged beyond repair. Nobody was injured. Litton Industries bombing In October 1982, the five filled a stolen pick-up truck with of dynamite and drove from Vancouver to Toronto. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |