Free Spanish Anarchists
In the warehouse district of Portland… or maybe I’ll say in one of the warehouse districts of Portland…
Okay, really just a few blocks north of the Rose Garden on the wall of a warehouse front…
There is graffiti that reads “Free Spanish Anarchists.”
This begs more questions than it answers. What Spanish Anarchists? Any specific Spanish Anarchists or just Spanish Anarchists in general? Who is imprisoning Spanish Anarchists? Do you want to free Anarchists of any other ethnic variety? Or is this a tag alerting the world to “Free Spanish Anarchits” — as opposed to Inhibited Spanish Anarchits, if you will. The only Anarchist prisoners off the top of my head are Italian and from the early part of the past century: Sacco. Vanzetti. But Surely if can wrack my brain I can come up with a few others.
I also wonder about the “Lies” graffiti found on various newspaper boxes, occasionally joined with the adjective “Corporate”. I like the “Stoopid” that is written across the front of the box for The Sporting News (in front of PGE Stadium), which I guess means “No diversionary activities allowed under the coming proleteriat Revolution.” Stuffed shirts, those quasi-Marxist quasi-Anarchists. One more question: I see the word “Jacobin” entreating the boxes of some Oregonian boxes. Is this describing the perceived editorial bent of the Oregonian, or the desired political climate post-revolution?