Storming Heaven
A Seattle Anarchist Periodical, 2013-2015
Title _ No. _ Month/Season-Year
- Storming-Heaven_2_July-2013
- Storming-Heaven_3_Aug-2013
- Storming-Heaven_4_Nov-2013
- Storming-Heaven_5_Spring-2014
- Storming-Heaven_6_Fall-2015
In the lead-up to May Day, Historical Seditions will be releasing a newly digitized anarchist newspaper every week. While some of these are over a century old, our first entry for this weekly series is less than a decade. Even in the era of information born-digitally, it is all too easy for publications to vanish. Servers go offline with no backups, hosting services go bankrupt or change their terms, and archiving services provide imperfect records.
Storming Heaven existed in a weird period for Anarchism in Seattle. It was something of a spiritual successor to the insurrectionary Anarchist Tides of Flame whose last issue came six months before Storming Heaven’s first. Storming Heaven published after the dissipation of the Occupy Movement as well as the Seattle Grand Jury, while most of its issues were published before the August, 2014 police killing of Mike Brown in Ferguson ignited the first wave of “Black Lives Matter” protests. The paper thus offers insight into anarchist discourse and activity sandwiched between these two movements, while the final issue released a year later offers a roundup of many of the local 2014-2015 Black Lives Matter protests.
Issues 3-6 of Storming Heaven were recovered from the still-live blog and thus are being reposted here for archival purposes. Issues 1 and 2 were however hosted on an old version of pugetsoundanarchists.org and the files do not even appear to be on the Internet Archive. Historical Seditions was able to recover a paper copy of Issue 2 from a friend’s closet, which has been scanned and uploaded here. Anyone with access to Issue 1 is welcome to get in contact at historicalseditions [at] riseup [dot] net