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'''Peter Gelderloos''' (born {{birth based on age as of date|19|2001|11|20|noage=1|mos=1}}{{r|most SOA}}) is an American [[anarchist]] activist and writer. |
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'''Peter Gelderloos''' (born {{birth based on age as of date|25|2007|08|20|noage=1}}<ref name="Wash Times">{{cite news |author1=Staff writer |last2=Woolls |first2=Daniel |date=August 20, 2007 |title=Virginia man arrested in Spain |work=The Washington Times |url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/aug/20/virginia-man-arrested-in-spain/}}</ref>) is an American [[anarchist]] activist and writer. |
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== Biography == |
== Biography == |
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In November 2001,<ref name="most SOA">{{Cite news |last=Houston |first=Jim |title=Most SOA protesters continue disobedience |work=[[Ledger-Enquirer]] |page=1 |date=2001-11-20 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115434261/most-soa-protesters-continue/ |location=Columbus, Georgia |df=mdy-all |access-date=December 30, 2022 |archive-date=December 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221230063301/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115434261/most-soa-protesters-continue/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Gelderloos was arrested with 30 others for trespass in protest of the American military training facility [[School of the Americas]], which trains Latin American military and police.<ref name="Gleason">{{cite news |last=Gleason |first=Amy |date=September 9, 2002 |title=Preparing for Prison |work=[[WHSV-TV]] |url=https://www.whsv.com/content/news/preparing-for-prison-101061.html |access-date=May 9, 2017 |archive-date=August 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210808202113/https://www.whsv.com/content/news/preparing-for-prison-101061.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He [[Pro se legal representation in the United States|represented himself in court]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Houston |first=Jim |title=Judge offers penalty options |work=[[Ledger-Enquirer]] |page=A1, A3 |date=2002-07-12 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115434004/alternative-sentence-proposed/ |location=Columbus, Georgia |df=mdy-all |access-date=December 30, 2022 |archive-date=December 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221230063226/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115434004/alternative-sentence-proposed/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and was sentenced to six months in prison.{{r|Barakat}}<ref>{{Cite news |last=Houston |first=Jim |title=Foes of institute choose prison |work=[[Ledger-Enquirer]] |page=A1, A3 |date=2002-07-13 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115434106/protesters-reject-reverends-proposal/ |location=Columbus, Georgia |df=mdy-all |access-date=December 30, 2022 |archive-date=December 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221230063224/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115434106/protesters-reject-reverends-proposal/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Gelderloos previously organized a student rally against the [[Iraq War]]<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Santos |first1=Carlos |title=Students rally across state to protest war |work=[[Richmond Times-Dispatch]] |page=A14 |date=2003-03-21 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115434198/students-rally-across-state-to-protest/ |location=Richmond, Virginia |df=mdy-all |access-date=December 30, 2022 |archive-date=December 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221230063301/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115434198/students-rally-across-state-to-protest/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and was a member of a [[copwatch]] program in [[Harrisonburg,_Virginia|Harrisonburg]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Lee |first=Chay |title=Harrisonburg Copwatch Holds Training |work=[[WHSV-TV]] |url=https://www.whsv.com/content/news/harrisonburg-copwatch-holds-training-1338392.html |access-date=May 9, 2017 |archive-date=August 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210808202059/https://www.whsv.com/content/news/harrisonburg-copwatch-holds-training-1338392.html |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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In April 2007, Gelderloos was arrested in [[Spain]] and charged with [[disorderly conduct]] and illegal demonstration during a [[squatter]]s' protest. He faced up to six years in prison.<ref name=Barakat>{{Cite news |last1=Barakat |first1=Matthew |title=North Virginia protester's arrest stirs international waters |work=[[Daily Press (Virginia)|Daily Press]] |page=B3 |date=2007-08-20 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115433623/north-virginia-protesters-arrest-stirs/ |location=Newport News, Virginia |agency=[[Associated Press]] |access-date=December 30, 2022 |archive-date=December 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221230061139/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115433623/north-virginia-protesters-arrest-stirs/ |url-status=live }}</ref> He claimed that he was [[Political repression|unfairly targeted]] for his political beliefs. He was acquitted in 2009.<ref name="fights deportation">{{cite news |date=April 28, 2009 |title=Virginia Anarchist Fights Deportation From Spain |newspaper=[[Daily News-Record]] |page=5 |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/police-clipping-apr-28-2009-3639406/ |access-date=December 30, 2022 |archive-date=December 30, 2022 |agency=[[Associated Press]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221230060039/https://newspaperarchive.com/police-clipping-apr-28-2009-3639406/ |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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He is known among anarchists for his 2005 book, ''How Nonviolence Protects the State''.{{r|fights deportation}} |
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In April 2007, Gelderloos was arrested in [[Spain]] and charged with [[disorderly conduct]] and illegal demonstration during a [[squatter]]s' protest. He faced up to six years in prison. Gelderloos claimed that he was [[Political repression|targeted]] for his political beliefs. He was acquitted in 2009.<ref name="Barakat & Woolls">{{cite news |last1=Barakat |first1=Matthew |last2=Woolls |first2=Daniel |date=Spring 2009 |title=US Anarchist, Gelderloos, Acquitted in Spain |work=ABCF Update |p=5 |publisher= [[Anarchist Black Cross Federation]] |url=https://issuu.com/badapplesdistro/docs/abfc52}} Also published as {{cite newspaper|date=April 28, 2009 |title=Va. Anarchist Fights Deportation From Spain |newspaper=[[Daily News Record]]|page=5 |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/harrisonburg-daily-news-record-apr-28-2009-p-5/}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last=Finnegan |first=Brent |title=Anarchist faces six year sentence in Spain | work=Hburg News | date=October 5, 2007 | url=http://hburgnews.com/2007/10/05/anarchist-faces-six-year-sentence-in-spain/ | access-date=May 9, 2017}}</ref> |
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== Works == |
== Works == |
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* {{cite book |last=Gelderloos |first=Peter |author-mask=1 |year=2022 |title=The Solutions Are Already Here: Strategies of Ecological Revolution From Below |location=London |publisher=[[Pluto Press]]}} |
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* {{cite book |last=Gelderloos |first=Peter |author-mask=1 |year=2017 |title=Worshipping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation |location=Oakland |publisher=[[AK Press]]}} |
* {{cite book |last=Gelderloos |first=Peter |author-mask=1 |year=2017 |title=Worshipping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation |location=Oakland |publisher=[[AK Press]]}} |
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* {{cite book|last=Gelderloos|first=Peter|author-mask=1|title=Learning From Ferguson|publisher=[[Left Bank Books]]|location=Seattle |
* {{cite book|last=Gelderloos|first=Peter|author-mask=1|title=Learning From Ferguson|publisher=[[Left Bank Books (Seattle)|Left Bank Books]]|location=Seattle|year=<!-- 29 December --> 2014 |url=https://www.leftbankbooks.com/publishing/pdfs/LFF.pdf}} |
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* {{cite book |last=Gelderloos |first=Peter |author-mask=1 |title=The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy |publisher=[[Left Bank Books]] |location=Seattle |year=2013}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Cartaya |first1=Raúl |title=El fracaso de la no violencia. De la primavera Árabe a Ocuppy |journal=Oxímora: Revista Internacional de Ética y Política |
* {{cite book |last=Gelderloos |first=Peter |author-mask=1 |title=The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy |publisher=[[Left Bank Books (Seattle)|Left Bank Books]] |location=Seattle |year=2013}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Cartaya |first1=Raúl |title=El fracaso de la no violencia. De la primavera Árabe a Ocuppy |journal=Oxímora: Revista Internacional de Ética y Política |issue=4 |pages=133–137 |date=2014 |url=http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/oximora/article/view/10473 |issn=2014-7708 |access-date=June 2, 2018 |archive-date=April 19, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180419032714/http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/oximora/article/view/10473 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Frazer |first1=Elizabeth J. |title=The Diversity of Tactics: Anarchism and Political Power |journal=[[European Journal of Political Theory]] |pages=553–564 |date=March 10, 2016 |volume=18 |issue=4 |doi=10.1177/1474885115627558 |s2cid=147683146 |issn=1474-8851 |url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1a3085a9-eafc-493a-8443-391bed7b98d4 |access-date=September 3, 2020 |archive-date=August 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210804034752/https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1a3085a9-eafc-493a-8443-391bed7b98d4 |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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* {{cite book |last=Gelderloos |first=Peter |author-mask=1 |url=http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works |title=Anarchy Works |publisher=Ardent Press |location=San Francisco |
* {{cite book |last=Gelderloos |first=Peter |author-mask=1 |url=http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works |title=Anarchy Works |publisher=Ardent Press |location=San Francisco |year=2010 }} |
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* {{cite book |last=Gelderloos |first=Peter |author-mask=1 |url=http://togettotheotherside.org/table-of-contents/ |title=To Get to the Other Side: a journey through Europe and its anarchist movements | |
* {{cite book |last=Gelderloos |first=Peter |author-mask=1 |url=http://togettotheotherside.org/table-of-contents/ |title=To Get to the Other Side: a journey through Europe and its anarchist movements |year=2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126124031/http://togettotheotherside.org/table-of-contents/ |archive-date=November 26, 2020 }} |
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* {{cite book |last=Gelderloos |first=Peter |author-mask=1 |title=Sousa in the Echo Chamber |publisher=Homebound Books |year=2009}} |
* {{cite book |last=Gelderloos |first=Peter |author-mask=1 |title=Sousa in the Echo Chamber |publisher=Homebound Books |year=2009}} |
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* {{cite book |last=Gelderloos |first=Peter |author-mask=1 |url=http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-how-nonviolence-protects-the-state |title=How Nonviolence Protects the State |publisher=South End Press |location=Boston |
* {{cite book |last=Gelderloos |first=Peter |author-mask=1 |url=http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-how-nonviolence-protects-the-state |title=How Nonviolence Protects the State |publisher=South End Press |location=Boston |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-89608-772-9}} |
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* {{cite book |last=Gelderloos |first=Peter |author-mask=1 |title=Consensus: |
* {{cite book |last=Gelderloos |first=Peter |author-mask=1 |title=Consensus: A New Handbook for Grassroots Social, Political, and Environmental Groups |publisher=See Sharp Press |location=Tucson |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-884365-39-3}} |
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* {{cite book |last=Gelderloos |first=Peter |author-mask=1 |title=How Nonviolence Protects the State |
* {{cite book |last=Gelderloos |first=Peter |author-mask=1 |title=How Nonviolence Protects the State |publisher=Signalfire Press |location=Harrisonburg |year=2005}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Martin |first1=Brian |title=How Nonviolence is Misrepresented |journal=Gandhi Marg |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=235–257 |date=July 2008 |url=https://documents.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/pubs/08gm2.html |access-date=December 30, 2022 |archive-date=December 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221230032423/https://documents.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/pubs/08gm2.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Borel |first1=Marcelo |last2=Freitas |first2=Fernando Vieira de |title=Monopólio revisado: a violência nos conflitos contra o Estado |journal=Revista de Ciências Humanas |volume=51 |issue=2 |pages=500–505 |date=December 22, 2017 |url=https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/revistacfh/article/view/2178-4582.2017v51n2p500 |doi=10.5007/2178-4582.2017v51n2p500 |issn=2178-4582 |doi-access=free |access-date=June 2, 2018 |archive-date=May 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180524221924/https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/revistacfh/article/view/2178-4582.2017v51n2p500 |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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* {{cite book |last=Gelderloos |first=Peter |author-mask=1 |title=What is Democracy? |publisher=See Sharp Press |location=Tucson |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-00-005219-3}} |
* {{cite book |last=Gelderloos |first=Peter |author-mask=1 |title=What is Democracy? |publisher=See Sharp Press |location=Tucson |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-00-005219-3}} |
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== See also == |
== See also == |
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* [[Anarchism and violence]] |
* [[Anarchism and violence]] |
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* {{section link|Issues in anarchism#Ends and means}} |
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* {{official website|https://petergelderloos.substack.com}} |
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* [http://www.lasthours.org.uk/archive/interviews/peter-gelderloos/ Interview with Last Hours Zine] |
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110717135644/http://www.lasthours.org.uk/archive/interviews/peter-gelderloos/ Interview with Last Hours Zine] |
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Peter Gelderloos (born 1981 or 1982[1]) is an American anarchist activist and writer.
Biography
[edit]In November 2001,[1] Gelderloos was arrested with 30 others for trespass in protest of the American military training facility School of the Americas, which trains Latin American military and police.[2] He represented himself in court[3] and was sentenced to six months in prison.[4][5] Gelderloos previously organized a student rally against the Iraq War[6] and was a member of a copwatch program in Harrisonburg.[7]
In April 2007, Gelderloos was arrested in Spain and charged with disorderly conduct and illegal demonstration during a squatters' protest. He faced up to six years in prison.[4] He claimed that he was unfairly targeted for his political beliefs. He was acquitted in 2009.[8]
He is known among anarchists for his 2005 book, How Nonviolence Protects the State.[8]
Works
[edit]- — (2022). The Solutions Are Already Here: Strategies of Ecological Revolution From Below. London: Pluto Press.
- — (2017). Worshipping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation. Oakland: AK Press.
- — (2014). Learning From Ferguson (PDF). Seattle: Left Bank Books.
- — (2013). The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy. Seattle: Left Bank Books.[9][10]
- — (2010). Anarchy Works. San Francisco: Ardent Press.
- — (2010). To Get to the Other Side: a journey through Europe and its anarchist movements. Archived from the original on November 26, 2020.
- — (2009). Sousa in the Echo Chamber. Homebound Books.
- — (2007). How Nonviolence Protects the State. Boston: South End Press. ISBN 978-0-89608-772-9.
- — (2006). Consensus: A New Handbook for Grassroots Social, Political, and Environmental Groups. Tucson: See Sharp Press. ISBN 978-1-884365-39-3.
- — (2005). How Nonviolence Protects the State. Harrisonburg: Signalfire Press.[11][12]
- — (2004). What is Democracy?. Tucson: See Sharp Press. ISBN 978-0-00-005219-3.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Houston, Jim (November 20, 2001). "Most SOA protesters continue disobedience". Ledger-Enquirer. Columbus, Georgia. p. 1. Archived from the original on December 30, 2022. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
- ^ Gleason, Amy (September 9, 2002). "Preparing for Prison". WHSV-TV. Archived from the original on August 8, 2021. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
- ^ Houston, Jim (July 12, 2002). "Judge offers penalty options". Ledger-Enquirer. Columbus, Georgia. p. A1, A3. Archived from the original on December 30, 2022. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
- ^ a b Barakat, Matthew (August 20, 2007). "North Virginia protester's arrest stirs international waters". Daily Press. Newport News, Virginia. Associated Press. p. B3. Archived from the original on December 30, 2022. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
- ^ Houston, Jim (July 13, 2002). "Foes of institute choose prison". Ledger-Enquirer. Columbus, Georgia. p. A1, A3. Archived from the original on December 30, 2022. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
- ^ Santos, Carlos (March 21, 2003). "Students rally across state to protest war". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Richmond, Virginia. p. A14. Archived from the original on December 30, 2022. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
- ^ Lee, Chay. "Harrisonburg Copwatch Holds Training". WHSV-TV. Archived from the original on August 8, 2021. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
- ^ a b "Virginia Anarchist Fights Deportation From Spain". Daily News-Record. Associated Press. April 28, 2009. p. 5. Archived from the original on December 30, 2022. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
- ^ Cartaya, Raúl (2014). "El fracaso de la no violencia. De la primavera Árabe a Ocuppy". Oxímora: Revista Internacional de Ética y Política (4): 133–137. ISSN 2014-7708. Archived from the original on April 19, 2018. Retrieved June 2, 2018.
- ^ Frazer, Elizabeth J. (March 10, 2016). "The Diversity of Tactics: Anarchism and Political Power". European Journal of Political Theory. 18 (4): 553–564. doi:10.1177/1474885115627558. ISSN 1474-8851. S2CID 147683146. Archived from the original on August 4, 2021. Retrieved September 3, 2020.
- ^ Martin, Brian (July 2008). "How Nonviolence is Misrepresented". Gandhi Marg. 30 (2): 235–257. Archived from the original on December 30, 2022. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
- ^ Borel, Marcelo; Freitas, Fernando Vieira de (December 22, 2017). "Monopólio revisado: a violência nos conflitos contra o Estado". Revista de Ciências Humanas. 51 (2): 500–505. doi:10.5007/2178-4582.2017v51n2p500. ISSN 2178-4582. Archived from the original on May 24, 2018. Retrieved June 2, 2018.