Peter Gelderloos
Peter Gelderloos (born 1981 or 1982) is an American anarchist activist and writer.
Biography
In November 2001, Gelderloos was arrested with 30 others for trespass in protest of the American military training facility School of the Americas, which trains Latin American military and police. He represented himself in court and was sentenced to six months in prison. Gelderloos previously organized a student rally against the Iraq War and was a member of a copwatch program in Harrisonburg.
In April 2007, Gelderloos was arrested in Spain and charged with disorderly conduct and illegal demonstration during a squatters' protest. He faced up to six years in prison. He claimed that he was unfairly targeted for his political beliefs. He was acquitted in 2009.
He is known among anarchists for his 2005 book, How Nonviolence Protects the State.
Works
- — (2022). The Solutions Are Already Here: Strategies of Ecological Revolution From Below. London: Pluto Press.
- — (2017). Worshipping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation. Oakland: AK Press.
- — (2014). Learning From Ferguson (PDF). Seattle: Left Bank Books.
- — (2013). The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy. Seattle: Left Bank Books.
- — (2010). Anarchy Works. San Francisco: Ardent Press.
- — (2010). To Get to the Other Side: a journey through Europe and its anarchist movements. Archived from the original on November 26, 2020.
- — (2009). Sousa in the Echo Chamber. Homebound Books.
- — (2007). How Nonviolence Protects the State. Boston: South End Press. ISBN 978-0-89608-772-9.
- — (2006). Consensus: A New Handbook for Grassroots Social, Political, and Environmental Groups. Tucson: See Sharp Press. ISBN 978-1-884365-39-3.
- — (2005). How Nonviolence Protects the State. Harrisonburg: Signalfire Press.
- — (2004). What is Democracy?. Tucson: See Sharp Press. ISBN 978-0-00-005219-3.