If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

In the years between the Haymarket tragedy and the first ‘Red Scare’ (roughly 1887-1920), anarchism exerted a powerful influence in these so-called ‘united states.’ It drew tens of thousands of adherents from people of all backgrounds, and informed major developments in both radical and reactionary politics. The ‘Beautiful Ideal’ flourished particularly in Italian and Jewish communities, where disenchantment with exploitation and oppression in the ‘land of the free’ met many of those fleeing poverty, repression and pogroms. Anarchism offered both an analysis and possible alternative to the pervasive tyrannies of the State, Capitalism, and restrictive traditions. Jewish and Italian militants formed alternative communities within their respective enclaves, complete with their own publications (in Italian and Yiddish), affinity groups, labor unions, social centers, schools, theater groups, holidays, political tendencies and internal debates. These revolutionary social currents actively participated in and were informed by the larger international movement as well, demonstrating the anarchist ethic of solidarity through autonomy and celebration of difference.

We’ll take a look at some of the people and events that shaped these radical communities, read from participants in their own words, and discuss their ideas and actions in relation to the evolving ethics of our movement. It’s exciting and fascinating history to look at, and can hopefully help us to understand a bit better where we come from and some ways we might be able to go forward.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

In the years between the Haymarket tragedy and the first ‘Red Scare’ (roughly 1887-1920), anarchism exerted a powerful influence in these so-called ‘united states.’ It drew tens of thousands of adherents from people of all backgrounds, and informed major developments in both radical and reactionary politics. The ‘Beautiful Ideal’ flourished particularly in Italian and Jewish communities, where disenchantment with exploitation and oppression in the ‘land of the free’ met many of those fleeing poverty, repression and pogroms. Anarchism offered both an analysis and possible alternative to the pervasive tyrannies of the State, Capitalism, and restrictive traditions. Jewish and Italian militants formed alternative communities within their respective enclaves, complete with their own publications (in Italian and Yiddish), affinity groups, labor unions, social centers, schools, theater groups, holidays, political tendencies and internal debates. These revolutionary social currents actively participated in and were informed by the larger international movement as well, demonstrating the anarchist ethic of solidarity through autonomy and celebration of difference.

We’ll take a look at some of the people and events that shaped these radical communities, read from participants in their own words, and discuss their ideas and actions in relation to the evolving ethics of our movement. It’s exciting and fascinating history to look at, and can hopefully help us to understand a bit better where we come from and some ways we might be able to go forward.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

In the years between the Haymarket tragedy and the first ‘Red Scare’ (roughly 1887-1920), anarchism exerted a powerful influence in these so-called ‘united states.’ It drew tens of thousands of adherents from people of all backgrounds, and informed major developments in both radical and reactionary politics. The ‘Beautiful Ideal’ flourished particularly in Italian and Jewish communities, where disenchantment with exploitation and oppression in the ‘land of the free’ met many of those fleeing poverty, repression and pogroms. Anarchism offered both an analysis and possible alternative to the pervasive tyrannies of the State, Capitalism, and restrictive traditions. Jewish and Italian militants formed alternative communities within their respective enclaves, complete with their own publications (in Italian and Yiddish), affinity groups, labor unions, social centers, schools, theater groups, holidays, political tendencies and internal debates. These revolutionary social currents actively participated in and were informed by the larger international movement as well, demonstrating the anarchist ethic of solidarity through autonomy and celebration of difference.

We’ll take a look at some of the people and events that shaped these radical communities, read from participants in their own words, and discuss their ideas and actions in relation to the evolving ethics of our movement. It’s exciting and fascinating history to look at, and can hopefully help us to understand a bit better where we come from and some ways we might be able to go forward.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

In the years between the Haymarket tragedy and the first ‘Red Scare’ (roughly 1887-1920), anarchism exerted a powerful influence in these so-called ‘united states.’ It drew tens of thousands of adherents from people of all backgrounds, and informed major developments in both radical and reactionary politics. The ‘Beautiful Ideal’ flourished particularly in Italian and Jewish communities, where disenchantment with exploitation and oppression in the ‘land of the free’ met many of those fleeing poverty, repression and pogroms. Anarchism offered both an analysis and possible alternative to the pervasive tyrannies of the State, Capitalism, and restrictive traditions. Jewish and Italian militants formed alternative communities within their respective enclaves, complete with their own publications (in Italian and Yiddish), affinity groups, labor unions, social centers, schools, theater groups, holidays, political tendencies and internal debates. These revolutionary social currents actively participated in and were informed by the larger international movement as well, demonstrating the anarchist ethic of solidarity through autonomy and celebration of difference.

We’ll take a look at some of the people and events that shaped these radical communities, read from participants in their own words, and discuss their ideas and actions in relation to the evolving ethics of our movement. It’s exciting and fascinating history to look at, and can hopefully help us to understand a bit better where we come from and some ways we might be able to go forward.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

In the years between the Haymarket tragedy and the first ‘Red Scare’ (roughly 1887-1920), anarchism exerted a powerful influence in these so-called ‘united states.’ It drew tens of thousands of adherents from people of all backgrounds, and informed major developments in both radical and reactionary politics. The ‘Beautiful Ideal’ flourished particularly in Italian and Jewish communities, where disenchantment with exploitation and oppression in the ‘land of the free’ met many of those fleeing poverty, repression and pogroms. Anarchism offered both an analysis and possible alternative to the pervasive tyrannies of the State, Capitalism, and restrictive traditions. Jewish and Italian militants formed alternative communities within their respective enclaves, complete with their own publications (in Italian and Yiddish), affinity groups, labor unions, social centers, schools, theater groups, holidays, political tendencies and internal debates. These revolutionary social currents actively participated in and were informed by the larger international movement as well, demonstrating the anarchist ethic of solidarity through autonomy and celebration of difference.

We’ll take a look at some of the people and events that shaped these radical communities, read from participants in their own words, and discuss their ideas and actions in relation to the evolving ethics of our movement. It’s exciting and fascinating history to look at, and can hopefully help us to understand a bit better where we come from and some ways we might be able to go forward.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

In the years between the Haymarket tragedy and the first ‘Red Scare’ (roughly 1887-1920), anarchism exerted a powerful influence in these so-called ‘united states.’ It drew tens of thousands of adherents from people of all backgrounds, and informed major developments in both radical and reactionary politics. The ‘Beautiful Ideal’ flourished particularly in Italian and Jewish communities, where disenchantment with exploitation and oppression in the ‘land of the free’ met many of those fleeing poverty, repression and pogroms. Anarchism offered both an analysis and possible alternative to the pervasive tyrannies of the State, Capitalism, and restrictive traditions. Jewish and Italian militants formed alternative communities within their respective enclaves, complete with their own publications (in Italian and Yiddish), affinity groups, labor unions, social centers, schools, theater groups, holidays, political tendencies and internal debates. These revolutionary social currents actively participated in and were informed by the larger international movement as well, demonstrating the anarchist ethic of solidarity through autonomy and celebration of difference.

We’ll take a look at some of the people and events that shaped these radical communities, read from participants in their own words, and discuss their ideas and actions in relation to the evolving ethics of our movement. It’s exciting and fascinating history to look at, and can hopefully help us to understand a bit better where we come from and some ways we might be able to go forward.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

In the years between the Haymarket tragedy and the first ‘Red Scare’ (roughly 1887-1920), anarchism exerted a powerful influence in these so-called ‘united states.’ It drew tens of thousands of adherents from people of all backgrounds, and informed major developments in both radical and reactionary politics. The ‘Beautiful Ideal’ flourished particularly in Italian and Jewish communities, where disenchantment with exploitation and oppression in the ‘land of the free’ met many of those fleeing poverty, repression and pogroms. Anarchism offered both an analysis and possible alternative to the pervasive tyrannies of the State, Capitalism, and restrictive traditions. Jewish and Italian militants formed alternative communities within their respective enclaves, complete with their own publications (in Italian and Yiddish), affinity groups, labor unions, social centers, schools, theater groups, holidays, political tendencies and internal debates. These revolutionary social currents actively participated in and were informed by the larger international movement as well, demonstrating the anarchist ethic of solidarity through autonomy and celebration of difference.

We’ll take a look at some of the people and events that shaped these radical communities, read from participants in their own words, and discuss their ideas and actions in relation to the evolving ethics of our movement. It’s exciting and fascinating history to look at, and can hopefully help us to understand a bit better where we come from and some ways we might be able to go forward.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

In the years between the Haymarket tragedy and the first ‘Red Scare’ (roughly 1887-1920), anarchism exerted a powerful influence in these so-called ‘united states.’ It drew tens of thousands of adherents from people of all backgrounds, and informed major developments in both radical and reactionary politics. The ‘Beautiful Ideal’ flourished particularly in Italian and Jewish communities, where disenchantment with exploitation and oppression in the ‘land of the free’ met many of those fleeing poverty, repression and pogroms. Anarchism offered both an analysis and possible alternative to the pervasive tyrannies of the State, Capitalism, and restrictive traditions. Jewish and Italian militants formed alternative communities within their respective enclaves, complete with their own publications (in Italian and Yiddish), affinity groups, labor unions, social centers, schools, theater groups, holidays, political tendencies and internal debates. These revolutionary social currents actively participated in and were informed by the larger international movement as well, demonstrating the anarchist ethic of solidarity through autonomy and celebration of difference.

We’ll take a look at some of the people and events that shaped these radical communities, read from participants in their own words, and discuss their ideas and actions in relation to the evolving ethics of our movement. It’s exciting and fascinating history to look at, and can hopefully help us to understand a bit better where we come from and some ways we might be able to go forward.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

In the years between the Haymarket tragedy and the first ‘Red Scare’ (roughly 1887-1920), anarchism exerted a powerful influence in these so-called ‘united states.’ It drew tens of thousands of adherents from people of all backgrounds, and informed major developments in both radical and reactionary politics. The ‘Beautiful Ideal’ flourished particularly in Italian and Jewish communities, where disenchantment with exploitation and oppression in the ‘land of the free’ met many of those fleeing poverty, repression and pogroms. Anarchism offered both an analysis and possible alternative to the pervasive tyrannies of the State, Capitalism, and restrictive traditions. Jewish and Italian militants formed alternative communities within their respective enclaves, complete with their own publications (in Italian and Yiddish), affinity groups, labor unions, social centers, schools, theater groups, holidays, political tendencies and internal debates. These revolutionary social currents actively participated in and were informed by the larger international movement as well, demonstrating the anarchist ethic of solidarity through autonomy and celebration of difference.

We’ll take a look at some of the people and events that shaped these radical communities, read from participants in their own words, and discuss their ideas and actions in relation to the evolving ethics of our movement. It’s exciting and fascinating history to look at, and can hopefully help us to understand a bit better where we come from and some ways we might be able to go forward.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

In the years between the Haymarket tragedy and the first ‘Red Scare’ (roughly 1887-1920), anarchism exerted a powerful influence in these so-called ‘united states.’ It drew tens of thousands of adherents from people of all backgrounds, and informed major developments in both radical and reactionary politics. The ‘Beautiful Ideal’ flourished particularly in Italian and Jewish communities, where disenchantment with exploitation and oppression in the ‘land of the free’ met many of those fleeing poverty, repression and pogroms. Anarchism offered both an analysis and possible alternative to the pervasive tyrannies of the State, Capitalism, and restrictive traditions. Jewish and Italian militants formed alternative communities within their respective enclaves, complete with their own publications (in Italian and Yiddish), affinity groups, labor unions, social centers, schools, theater groups, holidays, political tendencies and internal debates. These revolutionary social currents actively participated in and were informed by the larger international movement as well, demonstrating the anarchist ethic of solidarity through autonomy and celebration of difference.

We’ll take a look at some of the people and events that shaped these radical communities, read from participants in their own words, and discuss their ideas and actions in relation to the evolving ethics of our movement. It’s exciting and fascinating history to look at, and can hopefully help us to understand a bit better where we come from and some ways we might be able to go forward.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

In the years between the Haymarket tragedy and the first ‘Red Scare’ (roughly 1887-1920), anarchism exerted a powerful influence in these so-called ‘united states.’ It drew tens of thousands of adherents from people of all backgrounds, and informed major developments in both radical and reactionary politics. The ‘Beautiful Ideal’ flourished particularly in Italian and Jewish communities, where disenchantment with exploitation and oppression in the ‘land of the free’ met many of those fleeing poverty, repression and pogroms. Anarchism offered both an analysis and possible alternative to the pervasive tyrannies of the State, Capitalism, and restrictive traditions. Jewish and Italian militants formed alternative communities within their respective enclaves, complete with their own publications (in Italian and Yiddish), affinity groups, labor unions, social centers, schools, theater groups, holidays, political tendencies and internal debates. These revolutionary social currents actively participated in and were informed by the larger international movement as well, demonstrating the anarchist ethic of solidarity through autonomy and celebration of difference.

We’ll take a look at some of the people and events that shaped these radical communities, read from participants in their own words, and discuss their ideas and actions in relation to the evolving ethics of our movement. It’s exciting and fascinating history to look at, and can hopefully help us to understand a bit better where we come from and some ways we might be able to go forward.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

In the years between the Haymarket tragedy and the first ‘Red Scare’ (roughly 1887-1920), anarchism exerted a powerful influence in these so-called ‘united states.’ It drew tens of thousands of adherents from people of all backgrounds, and informed major developments in both radical and reactionary politics. The ‘Beautiful Ideal’ flourished particularly in Italian and Jewish communities, where disenchantment with exploitation and oppression in the ‘land of the free’ met many of those fleeing poverty, repression and pogroms. Anarchism offered both an analysis and possible alternative to the pervasive tyrannies of the State, Capitalism, and restrictive traditions. Jewish and Italian militants formed alternative communities within their respective enclaves, complete with their own publications (in Italian and Yiddish), affinity groups, labor unions, social centers, schools, theater groups, holidays, political tendencies and internal debates. These revolutionary social currents actively participated in and were informed by the larger international movement as well, demonstrating the anarchist ethic of solidarity through autonomy and celebration of difference.

We’ll take a look at some of the people and events that shaped these radical communities, read from participants in their own words, and discuss their ideas and actions in relation to the evolving ethics of our movement. It’s exciting and fascinating history to look at, and can hopefully help us to understand a bit better where we come from and some ways we might be able to go forward.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

If there’s absolutely no way you can come eat our home cooked vegan meal and sign a lot of May Day cards, but still want to support political prisoners, please consider sending some books from their wish lists.

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.