Intersections
A Pacific Northwest Anarchist Periodical, 2008-2009
Title _ Vol.-No. _ Months-Year
Intersections-1-1_Oct-Nov-2008 Intersections_1-4_June-Aug-2009 Intersections_1-5_Sept-Nov-2009
This weeks entries to Historical Sedition’s May Day digitization drive is a pair of 2000s and 2010s periodicals from the region that linger in the depths of the deleted but archived internet. The first is Intersections, published by the regional anarchist organization Common Action from 2008-2009 or 2010. After finding a wrinkled old copy in a homie’s closet, we dug through the wayback machine and web archives and found three of the six issues still online. We preserve them here as a mirror while also drawing eyes to the archived pages.
Common Action started as the “Class Action Alliance” in June 2008 before members changed the name to Common Action during their next general assembly in September that year. Initial membership included people from Bellingham, Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, and Portland; the Portland and Bellingham groups were later less active but a group in Bremerton was established.
Intersections was launched as the organization’s newsletter and agitational organ when the organizations name was changed to Common Action. It discussed campaigns members of the organization were involved in around labor, racial justice, healthcare, and transit, provided reportbacks from regional Anarchist People of Color Gatherings and other events, discussed issues like gentrification, radical parenting, and direct action tactics.
A handful of reportbacks from some of Common Action’s assemblies are available translated into several languages on anarkismo.net; the dissolution of the organization in 2010 was also announced there. Members of the group remained active in anarchist struggles and some are still around today.
Common Action’s site was active from 2008-2010 and is preserved by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. From these archives issue 4 and issue 5 of Intersections volume 1 were retrievable. Vol, 1 Issue 1 was found archived on the Anarchist Zine Library.
Email us at historicalseditions [at] riseup [dot] net if you have additional copies of Intersections that could be shared for archival purposes.