Pamela Ballinger, Author at Public Seminar

It was a sad irony that the island’s destructive wildfires this summer began in an area intensively reforested under Italian fascist rule

September 25, 2023 • by Pamela Ballinger

Among the cultural patrimony threatened by the wildfires on Rhodes was that left by the Italian fascists....

Activism

Seattle’s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest One Year Later

The city’s deep history of radical activism – and how it became a national symbol of anarchy

July 14, 2021 • by Pamela Ballinger

_____ A little over one year ago, on July 1, 2020, then-White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany proclaimed with fanfare that “Seattle has been liberated from the anarchists.” At the time, many Seattleites shrugged off this bizarre declaration that seemed so at odds with the city they inhabited – and with the ...

Pamela Ballinger

Wildfires, Rhodes, and the Legacies of Fascism

It was a sad irony that the island’s destructive wildfires this summer began in an area intensively reforested under Italian fascist rule

Seattle’s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest One Year Later

The city’s deep history of radical activism – and how it became a national symbol of anarchy

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