• The Ferrer Center and Stelton Colony were an anarchist social center and colony, respectively, organized to honor the memory of anarchist pedagogue Francisco...
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    Will Durant (category Ferrer Center and Colony)
    Freeman, a supporter of the Ferrer Modern School, sponsored him for a tour of Europe. In 1913, he resigned his post as teacher and married the 15-year-old...
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    should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government...
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    Ariel Durant (category Ferrer Center and Colony)
    Durants to California. She met her future husband when she was a student at Ferrer Modern School in New York City. He was then a teacher at the school, but...
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    Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (category Riots and civil disorder in Washington (state))
    Museum, the Daybreak Star Cultural Center and El Centro de la Raza. Protests over the murder of George Floyd and police brutality began in Seattle on...
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  • The Communal Experience: Anarchist and Mystical Counter-Cultures in America is a book-length historical and sociological study of cultural radicalism in...
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  • Nellie Dick (category Ferrer Center and Colony)
    Club, and in 1912 opened the Ferrer Sunday School in Whitechapel. In 1913 on a May Day march she met Jim Dick, an educator who had started a Ferrer school...
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  • New Jersey, and moved there in 1914, becoming the center of the Stelton Colony. Moreover, beyond New York City, the Ferrer Colony and Modern School...
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    Henry David Thoreau (category Critics of work and the work ethic)
    to contrast American civic spirit and democratic values with a colony apparently ruled by illegitimate religious and military power. Whereas his own country...
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    settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which he likens to a settler colony. He has said that the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was...
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