Tides of Flame

Seattle-based anarchist newspaper that published regularly throughout 2011-2012, covering stories such as the rise and fall of the Occupy movement, resistance to gentrification, the longshore workers' strike and the grand jury targeting local anarchists. Originally hosted at tidesofflame.wordpress.com.

Submitted by R Totale on April 8, 2019

"Tides of Flame [was] a biweekly periodical which is part of an ongoing project of anarchist analysis and practice within the Puget Sound area. As anarchists, we do not have an interest in waiting for the necessary moments to act upon our ideas. We refuse to simply dream of some far-off utopia. At any moment, an individual is capable of agitating within existing struggles and attacking capitalism and the state for their immediate destruction. We strive to live fulfilling lives of joy and freedom, and for this, we are criminals. Long live anarchy."

"Who will revive the violent whirlpools of flame if not us and those that we consider brothers? Come! New friends: this will please you.We will never work, oh tides of flame! This world will explode." ~-A. Rimbaud

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Tides of Flame #1 – early July 2011

Submitted by R Totale on April 8, 2019

Contents:
- Capital Hell
- Canucks Rioters Happy, Not Angry
- Barefoot Bandit will go unpaid for “Grand Theft Auto: Reality Edition”
- Uncontrollable Queers in Broadway Smash
- Recent Actions in Seattle
- Cops Forget Gun, Busy Drinking Starbucks
- Capitalists Swoop In to Save Horse Cops
- The Knox-Weiner Connection
- Yuppies Throw Tantrum, Autonomia Resilient
- Forgotten History: The George Jackson Brigade, City Light, and the Capitol Hill Safeway
- On the False Opposition of Terrorism and Democracy

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Tides of Flame #2 – mid July 2011

Submitted by R Totale on April 8, 2019

Contents:

- Blows to the Face of Society
- Gentrification: Art, Housing, Police
- Racist Cops ‘Victims of Racist Attack’
- Noise Demo Held at Youth Jail
- Forgotten History: Anarchists and Rebellion in Walla Walla State Prison
- The King County Panopticon: Living and Fighting Under the Eye of the Beast
- Scrambling for a Solution to the Transit Crisis
- An Introduction to War

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Tides of Flame #3 – late July 2011

Submitted by R Totale on April 8, 2019

Contents:

- Cops V. Party
- Wild Noise Demo at Jail
- Solidarity Continues in Prisoner Strike
- Forgotten History: The Second Offensive of the George Jackson Brigade
- Fare Dodger Receives Death Penalty
- “Dog Doogity” is a Load of Crap
- Notes on Community

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Tides of Flame #4 – mid August 2011

Submitted by R Totale on April 8, 2019

Contents:

- Into the Void
- Detective Dick Hall
- Forgotten History: 1919 Seattle General Strike
- Concealing Austerity
- A Tale Of Two Tunnels

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Tides of Flame #5 – early September 2011

Submitted by R Totale on April 8, 2019

Contents:

- Predators: On Rape and the State
- Cop Tasers Ex-Girlfriend’s Potential New Boyfriend
- An Introduction to Anarchist Affinity Groups
- Forgotten History: The Last Actions of the George Jackson Brigade
- The Death of Mother Nation
- One Year Later, Cops Still Struggle to Cover Their Asses

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readtof5.pdf (2.25 MB)

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Tides of Flame #6 – mid September 2011

Submitted by R Totale on April 8, 2019

Contents:

- Strike! – Longview, WA, Longshoremen
- The Real War on Cars
- Burnt & Open For All to See
- Forgotten History: The 1916 Everett Massacre
- Liberals Beg the Government to Follow Its Own Surveillance Laws
- The Mythology of the Middle Class
- Ciao, Autonomia!

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tof6read.pdf (3.14 MB)

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Tides of Flame #7 – early October 2011

Submitted by R Totale on April 8, 2019

Contents:

- 99% WHAT? – On Occupy Seattle
- My So-Called Life
- Tacoma Teachers Return, Take Students Hostage For Real This Time
- Forgotten History: The Last Days of the George Jackson Brigade
- The Eyes of a Monster
- Built for Burning: The Knife Behind the Bullitt’s Back
- Haunted, a poem

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tof7read.pdf (2.4 MB)

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Tides of Flame #8 – mid October 2011

Submitted by R Totale on April 8, 2019

Contents:

- This is What Occupation Looks Like
- Breaking the Myth of Egypt’s “Nonviolent Revolution”
- Forgotten History: Anarchists and the Battle in Seattle
- More Jobs? No thanks!
- Police Are the Tool of the 1%

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tof8read.pdf (3.72 MB)

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Tides of Flame #9 – early November 2011

Submitted by R Totale on April 8, 2019

Contents:

- Letter from Cairo
- Capital Hell Commune: Nazi Beatdown and Joyous Revelry
- Paris, Mai ’68
- Cops Brutally Evict #OccupyOakland, Occupiers Up the Ante with General Strike
- Recent Attacks in the Seattle Area
- My So-Called Life
- Things We Like: Refusing to Pay to Ride the Bus

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tof9read.pdf (5.02 MB)

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Tides of Flame #10 – mid November 2011

Submitted by R Totale on April 8, 2019

Contents:

- Capitalism is Death
- Somebody Burned a Bank!
- Free Barcelona, 1936
- Repression, Recuperation, Revolution, and the Occupations Movement
- Occupy Seattle: What’s Happened Since Our Last Issue?
- My So-Called Life: Waiting for Court
- A Tribute to Voltarine de Cleyre on her 145th Birthday

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tof10read.pdf (8.47 MB)

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Tides of Flame #11 – early December 2011

Submitted by R Totale on April 8, 2019

Contents:

- How to Occupy a Vacant Building
- All Power to the Glaziers: Recent Actions
- Black Diamond Vs. YarrowBay
- Forgotten History: The Earth Liberation Front
- Thieves Like Us: An Anonymous Letter
- My So-Called Life: I am an Anarchist Nanny

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tof11read.pdf (899.45 KB)

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Tides of Flame #12 – mid December 2011

Submitted by R Totale on April 8, 2019

Content:

- The Port Shutdown was a Wild Success!
- My So-Called Life: Holiday Retail Hell
- Review: Underground Reverie (music)
- Forgotten History: The First Days of Tear Gas
- The Sacred Law of Private Property
- Naughty Ideas: Paint Bomb Tutorial
- Fugitive Father & Child Want to Ice Skate, Trigger Police Invasion
- Wild Elk to be Slaughtered to Save Golf Course Grass and Flag Poles

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tof12read.pdf (3.69 MB)

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Tides of Flame #13 – mid January 2012

Submitted by R Totale on April 8, 2019

Contents:

- Capital Hell Revisited
- Crack-Smoking Cop Blows Out His Brains
- Recent Attacks Against Capital
- Forgotten History: The PNW Earth Liberation Front, Part 2
- Anti-Diaz March Burns With Fury
- It’s Been Swell, Turritopsis!
- My So-Called Life: Teen Gone Wild

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tof13read.pdf (4.99 MB)

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Tides of Flame #14 – early February 2012

Submitted by R Totale on April 8, 2019

Contents:

- With You When You’re Living in the Moment
- What the Fuck is Going On?
- The Clandestine Life, from Incognito: Experiences That Defy Identification
- Reflections on Two Local Workers’ Struggles: Undocumented Farm Workers vs. Darigold /// Longshoremen vs. EGT
- My So-Called Life: Banal Confessions of a Confused Teenager
- a poem about Snowmageddon 2012

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tof14read1.pdf (6.26 MB)

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Tides of Flame #15 – mid February 2012

Submitted by R Totale on April 8, 2019

Contents:

- The Death of Western Civilization: Greece Revolts… Again
- Signals of Disorder – Theory and Practice (Local Actions in Solidarity with Oakland)
- Forgotten History: The Earth Liberation Front, Part 3
- There’s a New Cat in Town: The Wildcat Space

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tof15read.pdf (5.5 MB)

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Tides of Flame #16 – early March 2012

Submitted by R Totale on April 8, 2019

Contents:

- News Shorts from Seattle: Brief Reports from the Bowels of the City
- May Day! May Day!
- Transmissions: Chronotope
- The Death of Trooper Tony

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tof16read.pdf (7.31 MB)

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Tides of Flame #17 – late March 2012

Submitted by R Totale on April 8, 2019

Contents:

- Authority is Atrocity: Soldiers Remain Psycho Fascists // Cop Son Shoots Cop Daughter, Cop Gets Paid Leave
- Kiddie Jail Kondos!
- Forgotten History: The Diaspora of the ELF
- News Shorts from the Puget Sound: Dead Trooper Still A Fascist // Pigs Nab Cat Burglar // Sheriff Pledges More Psychological Intimidation And Control // Chase 5 Get Off
- My So-Called Life: Inside Juvie
- The Blast
- What to do with Cages, a poem

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tof17read.pdf (10.97 MB)

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Tides of Flame #18 – mid April 2012

Submitted by R Totale on April 8, 2019

Contents:

- For the Foster Youth
- A Pig is a Pig: Fuck the Cops and Their Reforms
- Forgotten History: The Centralia IWW (International Workers of the World)
- Moments of Chaos: Stumpqua Bank Hit // Fuck You, Judge! // SeaSol vs. “Il Duce” // Easter Mayhem // Downtown Bank Vandalism
- Bye-bye Bauhaus?
- Why May Day? Why the General Strike?

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tof18read.pdf (1.71 MB)

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Tides of Flame #19 – mid May 2012

Submitted by R Totale on April 8, 2019

Contents:

- Our Word on May Day
- On Violence
- Forgotten History: The Dude
- Chilean Rebels
- Response to the Seattle Times
- Free Pax

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tof19read.pdf (4.25 MB)

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Tides of Flame #20 – early June 2012

Submitted by R Totale on April 9, 2019

Contents:

- Cafe Racer Shootings
- A Manifesto Against Capitalism
- 1856: The Battle of Seattle
- An Act of Revenge
- Anti-Juvi Actions
- Honor the Dead – Fight for the Living

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tof20.pdf (12.32 MB)

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Tides of Flame #21 – early July 2012

Submitted by R Totale on April 9, 2019

Contents:

- Queers Fucking Queers
- Portland Molotov and Other Solidarity Actions
- Forgotten History: The Green Scare
- A Word to Seattle Superheroes
- Happy Anniversary

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Tides of Flame #22 – early August 2012

Submitted by R Totale on April 9, 2019

Contents:

- Statement from Grand Jury Resisters
- Hunting Witches in the Pacific Northwest: On the Grand Jury Targeting Anarchists
- What is a Grand Jury?
- What to Do if Subpoenaed
- List of Solidarity Actions with PNW Anarchists
- Anarchist Bedtime Stories: The Burning Secret, Part 1
- Communiques from Local Night Actions
- How You Can Support Grand Jury Resisters

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tof22read2.pdf (9.19 MB)

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Tides of Flame #23 – late September 2012

Submitted by R Totale on April 9, 2019

Contents:

- Free Matt Duran!
- Updates on the Witch-hunt
- Solidarity Actions from Around the World (since 8/5) & Selected Communiques
- The Earth Liberation Front Today
- Paint the Town Pink (on Grrrl Army & queer/radical feminist/anti-rape graffiti)
- “Jouissance,” an excerpt from Baedan: Journal of Queer Nihilism
- How You Can Support Grand Jury Defiance

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tof23read.pdf (7.72 MB)

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Tides of Flame #24 – early November 2012

Submitted by R Totale on April 9, 2019

Contents:

- Free Kteeo & Matt!
- Matthew “Maddy” Pfeiffer Subpoenaed
- Committee Against Political Repression Suspends Support for [Former Grand Jury Prisoner] Leah-Lynn Plante
- The Chinese Expulsion of 1886
- Selected Communiques: Solidarity with Grand Jury Defiance
- Anti-Politics and Revolutionary Solidarity (from Against Prison, Politics, Society)
- On Witches
- Untitled Poem by Dee Allen

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tof24read.pdf (25.45 MB)

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Tides of Flame #25 – mid December 2012 – GOODBYE ISSUE!

Submitted by R Totale on April 9, 2019

Contents:

- We’re All Done Here – ToF’s Goodbye Letter
- Five Charged in May Day Massacre
- Judge Finds Maddy Pfeiffer Guilty of Contempt
- Forgotten History: The Japanese Internment, or a brief history of american fascism
- The Inside Story: Jelly Squat!
- Forgotten History: Kind of the County
- Yesterday (short story)
- Thank You/Fuck You
- Pay Attention to New Energy Infrastructure

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tof25read.pdf (3.62 MB)

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