Budsofstone @budsofstone@computerfairi.es

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Olga Taratuta
A Grandmother of Anarchism
Tireless member of the Anarchist Black Cross

Born 1876 in Ekaterinoslav, known today as Dnipro, Ukraine
Murdered by the Cheka in 1938

In 1901 she fled Tsarist repression to live in Geneva. returning to Odessa in 1904 to join the Union of the Irreconcilables, an anarchist-communist group, along with her sister Kahyla and Kahyla's husband Kopel. After a trip to Bialystok, she helped to form a Black Banner group.

In 1905 her group carried out an attack on the Libman Cafe, one of the most significant motiveless terror acts of its time, for which she was sentenced to life in prison, escaping a year later to live in Switzerland and organize with the Buntar group.

In Odessa anarchists continued to agitate, helping to establish over 50 peasants orgs and joining in labour organizing. When a shipping company tried to break a strike using the hyper nationalist pogramist Black Hundreds, anarchists simply blew up one of their steamers.

In 1907 Olga returned to Odessa. She was arrested in 1908 in Yekaterinoslav holding a bag of 21 bombs in front of the Lukyanovskaya prison. She had planned to blow up a wing of the prison to aid in an escape.

For this she was sentenced to hard labour in the Tsarist prisons until she was released in 1917. She would take months to herself and to reconnect with her son, but was soon called back as a result of the brutality of Hetman Skoropadsky in Ukraine.

Olga worked tirelessly with the Anarchist Red Cross, which had formed from the Political RC in either 1905 or 1907 when it was discovered that funds weren't reaching ALL prisoners, but only select tendencies. In this work she aided many bolsheviks who would become her future jailers.

In June of 1920 she was elected to the secretariat of the Nabat and receive 5 million rubles from the Makhnovists to organize the now Anarchist Black Cross in Ukraine. The Ukrainian ABC engaged in self defense and medical assistance in addition to prisoner support.

She was arrested in 1920 during the Cheka raid at the Brotherhood Bookstore in Kharkov, a part of an empire wide targeting of anarchists. Black Cross centers countrywide were destroyed along with the
headquarters of the Makhnovists and the publishing houses of Golos Truda were also destroyed.

On Febuary 13th 1921, she joined Fanya and Aron Baron, David Kogan, Mark Mrachny, Aleksey Olonetsky, and Aleksandr Guevsky to carry Kropotkin's casket.

In 1922, she and Anna Stepanova, her comrade from the Black Cross, were deported to Voldoga in exile and released in 1924 where they moved to Kiev. Olga and Anna travelled and lived together, until Anna's death in 1925.

After Anna's death, Olga moved to Odessa again in 1927 where she aided in the international campaign to secure the freedom of Sacco and Vanzetti. For this, she and others experienced repression and raids from the Cheka, and many of her co-organizers were arrested.

During this time, Olga had been busy organizing a smuggling corrider of anarchist thought. Letters and literature moved along the illegal corridor from Ukraine, Moscow, Leningrad, Kursk, the Volga region and more.

It woas one of the few lifelines under Bolshevik repression.
In 1929 she was arrested for helping to organize rail workers. She moved to Moscow upon her release 2 years later. There she was arrested again, on February 8th, 1938. The charge for "anti-soviet activities."

She was sentenced and shot the next day.

I would just say this is but a cliff notes version of the life of one of the most compassionate and defiant women I have ever encountered. Her life and writing along with the events she participated in are far much richer and I wish it was easier to capture that in a thread.

It's a hell of a thing to talk about the collective abuse that one is exposed to as a member of a highly marginalized group, addressing the dominant majority, who are the perpetrators of this abuse, and then have someone chime in who asks for *me* to offer a solution.

Like, that's a shit response.

@abraxas i said this elsewhere. canadians included under the banner of american here

Mexico is not a small country...

(by @onlmaps)

Turns out snitching is a favored tactic of German Nazis circa 1930s to mid 1940s.

Anytime you come across some organization instructing you to tell on someone for violations of certain forced norms, just assume they're Nazis.

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#art

if you want to win fedi just say "mommy that's taller than me with big boobs" you will get all of the boosts

But, I like my <Nazi car> so much! It's a great car! I mean, the owner is a <Nazi>, but should I, the consumer, care if my dollars are <funding Nazi activities>? The <Nazi car> is the best car I've ever driven! My family loves to drive in the <Nazi car>! Don't blame us for owning a <Nazi car>! it's the best car ever built, we should not have to care that it's a <Nazi car>!

(AFP) - A dozen Teslas were torched in France in what authorities are treating as an arson attack, the prosecutor's office said Monday.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250303-dozen-teslas-torched-outside-french-dealership-authorities

I fell long and hard into the hacking world as a teenager, partially through the punk scene and partially through reading posts and grabbing shared text files through BBSes. I was 14.

I was hungry. I was curious. I wanted to learn, do, and mingle.

I saw Hackers in the theater when I was 16. I rented Sneakers on VHS. I was getting heavily drawn into cyberpunk. I was already using Linux and learning about both its internals, as well as the internals of Solaris (the only UNIX we had a copy of), and Windows NT.

I then discovered the Cult of the Dead Cow, 2600, Phrack, and the Church of the SubGenius. Pure bliss.

I don't know what happened, but I read The Cathedral and the Bazaar, found the Free Software Foundation, and suddenly in my 20s... I was fucking BORING. All the mindset and style suddenly got thrown in the trunk.

I hated it. I hated myself for doing this to myself. This wasn't the kind of hacker I wanted to be... turn into a grumpy, boring, insufferable asshole? No, I couldn't do that.

In my 30s, I cast that aside. I began to embrace my old self again. I started to feel whole again.

Now, in my 40s, I look back and I think about this... Eric Raymond was gatekeeping. Him and his ilk are not the masters. They're the assholes. Who the fuck are they to tell us what kinds of hackers we should be? They claim "don't conform", not knowing the irony in their words and actions.

Which is why I say, I will be the kind of hacker that pisses ESR off to no end. I will do it my way.

Hack the Planet. Piss off the gatekeepers.
#HackThePlanet

Muy duro esto.