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2011
News for August 2011:


 * August 28: Commentator Darian Worden publishes editorial advocating anarchist alternatives to the criminal justice system.


 * August 24: Anarchists gather in Canada for the Victoria Anarchist Book Fair and Festival of Anarchy celebrations.


 * August 23: The 84th anniversary of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti is observed by Massachusetts Citizens Against the Death Penalty.


 * August 18: PM Press publishes new book documenting the rise of Common Ground Collective in New Orleans.

2010

 * August 16: Noam Chomsky receives honorary doctorate from Peking University.


 * August 6: Anarchists in Santa Cruz, California stage protest outside of county jail in opposition to police and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.


 * August 6: Portland anarchists come to aid of 7-year-old girl, when Multnomah County health inspectors threaten the child's mother with a $500 fee for operating an unlicensed lemonade stand.


 * August 4: An alleged spy for Joint Base Lewis-McChord is sued by anti-war protesters for posing as an anarchist to infiltrate and monitor civilian activities.


 * July 22: Rare anarchist books signed by authors Emma Goldman and Peter Kropotkin are returned to the McMaster University library, decades after being presumed lost in the 1960s.


 * July 20: Hamilton, Ontario anarchists report being spied upon by police before and in the aftermath of the 2010 G-20 protests.


 * July 20: Canadian-based journalist Nicholas Köhler analyzes the anarchist organizers of the 2010 G-20 Toronto summit protests, finding examples who defy common stereotypes.


 * March 5: Moscow-based TV columnist Andrei Loshak makes waves in Russia, advocating anarchism as a solution to government corruption.

2009

 * December 16: After being imprisoned for almost ten years for the arson of an SUV dealership, American eco-anarchist Jeffrey "Free" Luers is released.


 * October 31: In Parma (Italy) green anarchist mobilisation against EU food safety agency EFSA, protesting against GMO, biotechnology and nanotechnology.
 * October 18, 2009: In Roraima (Brazil) the anarchist teacher Crystian Paiva is murdered by military police. The commercial media and government agencies works to disseminate disinformation that Paiva who committed suicide.


 * September 24: In one of the most substantial North American anarchist mobilisations in five years, protesters challenge the 2009 G-20 Pittsburgh summit.


 * July 2: The car of Panayiotis Pikramenos, the Greek Council of State president, was bombed with an improvised explosive by individuals unknown. Police suspect Greek anarchists for the attack.


 * June 23: Harold H. Thompson ashes are scattered in Lough Neagh, Ireland, following his death on November 11, 2008.


 * May 31: The Anarchist Library, an online archive of anarchist literature supporting typographically accurate documents made using free and open source software, is launched


 * May 5: CrimethInc. release their 35,000 word analysis of the protests at the 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions and their implications for future anarchist activism
 * May 1: The Institute of Anarchist Studies, a nonprofit foundation supporting anti-authoritarian scholarship, relaunches its website, announcing a reconstituted board and the online publication of its anarchist periodical Perspectives on Anarchist Theory
 * April 1, 2009: Radicals in London under the banner of G20 Meltdown stage a protest at the Bank of England

2008

 * December 6–28: Anarchists and others riot against police in Greece following the killing of a 15 year old by a police officer. Clashes with police and attacks on Greek Embassies and Consulates have spread to several other European countries, and the United States.
 * November 11–15: The Tarnac Nine are arrested in Tarnac, France and accused of large-scale sabotage of the French rail network
 * September 1–4: The 2008 Republican National Convention takes place in Twin Cities, Minnesota, greeted by the RNC Welcoming Committee
 * August 25–28: American anarchist collectives including Unconventional Action protest the 2008 Democratic National Convention
 * July 16: North American anarchists gather in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the seventh annual CrimethInc. Convergence
 * May 23: Anarchist folk-singer Utah Philips dies of congenital heart failure.
 * May 1: Hundreds of anarchist nationalists and far-left radicals clash in the worst riots in Hamburg, Germany in years
 * March 21-24: Anarchist Convergence held in Melbourne, Australia, to discuss the establishment of a Regional Anarchist Federation.
 * February 7: A Chilean anarchist group called the Severino Di Giovanni Antipatriotic Band claimed responsibility for the bombing of a police station in Providencia, Chile.
 * February 2, 2008: Anarchists in Athens, Greece attacked a demonstration by the neo-nazi organization Golden Dawn.

2007

 * December 2007-January 2008: Spain's Confederación General del Trabajo declare's a strike of Barcelona's bus drivers, from 21-24 December, and 2-4 January.
 * March 29: Uprisings in Santiago and all across Chile mark the Day of the Youth Combatant
 * March 2: The eviction of Ungdomshuset by Danish police results in days of rioting in Nørrebro, Copenhagen.
 * February 22: Thousands of students march through Athens, Greece and clash with police to protest government  plans to reform higher education and introduce private universities.
 * January 20: The World Social Forum opens in Nairobi, Kenya.
 * January 16, 2007: The Peoples Popular Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) and the Trique people create the Free and Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala in the eastern region of Oaxaca, Mexico.

2006

 * December 30: The 6th encuentro of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation begins in Oventik, Chiapas, Mexico.
 * December 7: Hugo Cores, influential South American political activist and last surviving core member of the Partido por la Victoria del Pueblo, dies on the way home from a political meeting in Uruguay.
 * October 29: Mexican federal and military police, supported by army troops, seize the center of Oaxaca, which had served as the headquarters for the five-month protest occupation of the city. Protestors had demanded the resignation of state governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, after he sent a brigade of over 3000 police to the area to break the strike of a teachers' union in June.
 * July 30, 2006: American libertarian socialist and social ecologist Murray Bookchin passes away at the age of 85.

2005

 * September 2005: In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, poor residents of New Orleans, United States, without the help of government, organize their own relief efforts. Neighbors conduct boat rescues, guard each other's houses, set up shelters, and coordinate food distribution.
 * September 8, 2005: In one of the largest mass arrests in Denmark history, Christiania trailersite residents are evicted from the partially self-governing neighborhood of Copenhagen.
 * September 2005: The EZLN host the first plenary of the Other Campaign, an initiative to build a national, non-electoral plan of struggle.