Anarchist Neighborhood:Milwaukee

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Milwaukee has a variety of anarchist and anarchist related groups and activities.

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[edit] Geography

Milwaukee is a decaying playground. In the decline of its former industrial state (similar to other rust belt cities), it offers both opportunities for free and autonomous cultures as well as room for developers to fill their pocketbooks.

It could be argued that Riverwest (in Milwaukee) is one of the most radical neighborhoods in Wisconsin. Anti-authoritarian vandalism and street art can be found rotting on electrical boxes and open wall space all over Riverwest. If people are interested in finding anarchists, all they need to do is walk around Riverwest on Clarke or Center street for about a ten minutes.

[edit] History

In 1917 a police station was blown up by Italian Anarchists on the South side of Milwaukee. Mario Buda is thought to have been the ringleader. The bomb was discovered near a church at 355 Van Buren St., in the old third ward. Two boys brought the bomb to the central police station at Oneida and Broadway and turned it over to police. The station keeper was showing it to the shift commander, Lieutenant Flood, when it exploded. Nine members of the Department were killed in the blast.

Here are some current summaries of Anarchist organizing over the last two years:

[edit] Anarchist, Anti-Authoritarian, Anti-Capitalist Groups

  • Cream City Collectives (CCC) (forum) - A group of anti-authoritarian collectives associated with or including a free school, infoshop, screen printing collective, and these other groups:
  • The burnt bookmobile (forum) - A distro that distributes anti-authoritarian, anarchist and mostly insurrectionary and anti-civ literature at events, block parties, punk shows, on the street and wherever they're welcome or invited.
  • Milwaukee Anarchist Black Cross (on a temporary hiatus until the summer) People interested still write letters to prisoners and organize solidarity actions, campaigns, etc.
  • Milwaukee Anti Racist Action
  • MKE to RNC A group of Anarchists and anti-authoritarians organizing against the upcoming presidential conventions in late august and september.
  • Milwaukee Anarchists and Anti-Authoritarians (site and discussion forum)
  • Anti-Authoritarians Autonomous a UWM campus group organized to bring anarchist speakers and events to campus and distribute free information or as cheaply as possible for the Milwaukee area.
  • Industrial Workers of the World - Milwaukee General Membership branch. Meets the first Tuesday of each month. 6:30pm at The Cream City Collectives 732 East Clarke Street Milwaukee, WI 53212
  • Broad Vocabulary is a new feminist bookstore located in Bay View, with a large selection of radical, anarchist, anti-capitalist and feminist books.
  • Milwaukee Network for Social Change
  • Bash Back Milwaukee (formerly the Queer Action Network) Organizing queer resistance in the Milwaukee area.
  • Milwaukee IndyMedia

[edit] Independent Media Centers:

  • Milwaukee Indymedia - Run by a collective of people. We need tech support or someone who would be willing to do fulltime tech support and anyone interested in publishing news as they see it on the webpage. The Milwaukee IMC might soon have a physical location soon in the infoshop being created by the Cream City collectives (ccc).

[edit] News

January 8th two banners dropped reading "destroy the election" and "choose your own adventure" claimed by some Milwaukee anarchists http://mke.indymedia.org/en/2008/01/209003.shtml

January 17th three banners dropped reading "whoever wins we lose", "9-1-08, st. paul, it's on!" and "let the end come: 9-1-08" claimed by some Milwaukee anarchists http://mke.indymedia.org/en/2008/01/209062.shtml

January 17th anti-RNC graffiti on condo developments that read "shut down the RNC" and a circle A. http://mke.indymedia.org/en/2008/01/209067.shtml

Febuary 5th banners dropped reading "victory against politics", "9-1-08" and "shut down the RNC" on the national day of action against the elections called by Unconventional Action. http://prod.milwaukee.indymedia.org/en/2008/02/209185.shtml

Febuary 5th banners dropped in Osh Kosh reading "Demicrans and Republicrats both fuck working class" and "8.24.08 Receate68.org / 9.1.08 NORNC.org." http://prod.milwaukee.indymedia.org/en/2008/02/209183.shtml

March 18th recruiting center on Oakland vandalized with spray paint and window broken for the anniversary of the war in Iraq. http://mke.indymedia.org/en/2008/03/209413.shtml

March 20th Anarchists and Anti-Authoritarians from around the Midwest blockade downtown Milwaukee and halt traffic for about 40 minutes leaving fences, news paper boxes and trash bins in the middle of the roads in wake of their path. 4 people were arrested. http://mke.indymedia.org/en/2008/03/209446.shtml

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