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"My name is Vermont, I do what I want!" The Vermont Family was a roving band of anarcho-punks that helped build connective tissue linking the dispersed US anarchist milieu in the late 1980s. A fun little 🧵 #AnarchistHistory #RadicalHistory 1/
The Family originally came together within the “Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament,” in which hundreds of people walked from Los Angeles to Washington, DC over the course of nine months in 1986. 2/
While many of the liberals dropped out or retreated to cars, a core group of anarchists coalesced to form a traveling “anarchy village” which grew from 15 to around 70 or 80 people. They ran the village through consensus and promoted anarchist politics within the march. 3/
Smash the state and have a nice day! A poem from "Mob Action Against the State: Haymarket Remembered... an Anarchist Convention." This 1986 convention was a huge step forward for the rebirth of the US anarchist movement... #AnarchistHistory 🧵 
This national convention, held on the 100 year anniversary of the Haymarket riot in Chicago, was the first in a series of annual anarchist conferences that helped re-establish anarchism as a national political movement.
Attendees came from a variety of anarchist organizations and tendencies, including Fifth Estate, the IWW, the Minneapolis Backroom Anarchist Books (which soon spawned the Revolutionary Anarchist Bowling League) and many small collectives from across the US and Canada.
