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Malachi Ritscher's Mission Statement

by Alan Lastufka | 04/06/2007 | in not battlestar galactica | obituaries | podcasts | zines


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Fall of Autumn presents Brent Kado of Avant/Chicago, reading Malachi Ritscher's Mission Statement. Malachi Ritscher committed self-immolation on the side of the Kennedy Expressway during morning rush hour on Friday November 3, 2006, as a protest against the Iraq war.

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Malachi Ritscher R.I.P.

by anne elizabeth moore | 11/09/2006 | in obituaries

On Friday morning, Nov. 3rd, During rush hour in Chicago, local activist and sound engineer Malachi Ritscher doused himself in gasoline and lit himself on fire, by the millennium flame near the Ohio St. exit off the Kennedy expressway. He set up a sign that read: "thou shalt not kill" and also set up a video camera on a tripod and recorded the whole thing. (The videotape is with the police).

Longtime supporter and participant of the Chicago experimental music scene for many years, Malachi Ritscher was behind many live recordings for musicians in town and throughout the world. He kept up his savagesound.com page, a useful and comprehensive list of creative music events in Chicago. Perhaps more importantly, Malachi was an activist and vocal protester of political and social ills that stem from, but are not limited to, the Bush administration.

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