Peter Gelderloos

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Peter Gelderloos
Born
Peter Alan Gelderloos

1981or1982(age 42–43) [1]
Morristown, New Jersey, U.S.
Notable workHow Nonviolence Protects the State (2005)
Anarchy Works (2010)
The Failure of Nonviolence (2013)
Worshipping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation (2017)
Movement Anarchism

Peter Gelderloos (born 1981or1982) [1] is an American anarchist activist and writer.

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Biography

Gelderloos first became involved in political issues as a high school student, and described the Seattle WTO protests in November 1999 as helping influence his political development. [2]

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. [3] He represented himself in court [4] and was sentenced to six months in prison. [5] [6] Gelderloos previously organized a student rally against the Iraq War [7] and was a member of a copwatch program in Harrisonburg. [8]

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. [5] According to Gelderloos, he was arrested as a bystander after someone had set off a firework designed to scatter fliers through the air. [2] He claimed that he was unfairly targeted for his political beliefs. He was acquitted in 2009. [9]

He is known for his 2005 book, How Nonviolence Protects the State, which has been cited in works discussing and analyzing forms of violent and nonviolent resistance. [9] [10] [11] He has written for the publications In These Times and ROAR Magazine . [12] [13] In a review of his 2017 work Worshiping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation, William Gillis described him as "an anarchist committed to making anarchist theory accessible" and "within our movement [...] probably the least controversial anarchist writer alive". [14]

In 2024, he co-produced It’s Revolution or Death, a documentary series focused on the global climate crisis, in collaboration with media collective subMedia.Tv. [15]

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  1. 1 2 3 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. Peter Alan Gelderloos, 19, of Vienna, Va.
  2. 1 2 "Peter Gelderloos". Last Hours. September 4, 2008. Archived from the original on July 17, 2011.
  3. ↑ Gleason, Amy (September 9, 2002). "Preparing for Prison". WHSV-TV . Archived from the original on August 8, 2021. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. 1 2 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.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ Lee, Chay. "Harrisonburg Copwatch Holds Training". WHSV-TV . Archived from the original on August 8, 2021. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
  9. 1 2 "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.
  10. ↑ Bowser, Jeremiah (2015). Elements of Resistance: Violence, Nonviolence, and the State. Hampton Institute Press. ISBN   9780991313624.
  11. ↑ Erickson Nepstad, Sharon (2015). Nonviolent Struggle: Theories, Strategies and Dynamics. Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780199975990.
  12. ↑ "Peter Gelderloos". In These Times .
  13. ↑ "Peter Gelderloos". ROAR Magazine .
  14. ↑ Gillis, William (August 2, 2017). "The Tangled Paths Of State Formation And Resistance". Center for a Stateless Society .
  15. ↑ "It's Revolution or Death – Part 1 : Short Term Investments". It's Going Down .
  16. ↑ 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.
  17. ↑ 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.
  18. ↑ 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.
  19. ↑ 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.
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