Peter Gelderloos
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Peter Gelderloos is an anarchist author from Harrisonburg, Virginia (United States). He is best known for his 2005 book, How Nonviolence Protects the State.
Gelderloos was arrested in 2001 while attending a protest at the Georgia-based Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, a controversial school that trains Central and South American soldiers and police.[1] He was sentenced in 2002 to six months in prison.
In How Nonviolence Protects the State Gelderloos sets out to "[debunk] the notion that non-violent activism is the only acceptable and effective method of struggle."[2] The resulting work has been frequently compared to Ward Churchill's Pacifism as Pathology.[3]
In May of 2007, Gelderloos was arrested in Spain and charged with public disorder and illegal demonstration during a squatters' protest. Police have accused Gelderloos of playing a leadership role within the protest - a claim which he calls "fairly absurd." Although released on bond, Gelderloos has been unable to return to the United States as a result of his impending trial. His family contends that it will not be possible for him to receive a fair trial in Spain, citing a judge's assertion that "the United States would put him in Guantanamo for what he had done."[4]
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- Gelderloos, Peter (2007). How Nonviolence Protects the State. Boston: South End Press. ISBN 9780896087729.
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- Gelderloos, Peter. Insurrection v.s. Organization: Reflections from Greece on a Pointless Schism. Infoshop.org (April 2007)
- Gelderloos, Peter. My Arrest in Spain: The Easy Road from Tourism to Terrorism. Counterpunch (May 2007).
- Gelderloos, Peter. Arms and the Movement. Utne Reader (June 2007).
