Mario Buda
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Mario Buda aka Mike Boda 13 October 1884 Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy |
| Died | 1 June 1963 (aged 78) Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Known for | Bomb Creation (Wall Street bombing) 1920; suspect in bombings in 1916 and 1917 |
Mario Buda (13 October 1884 – 1 June 1963) was an Italian anarchist, active in the United States from 1917 to 1920. He was a Galleanist, and a Propaganda of the deed anarchist. He is best known as the suspected perpetrator of the Wall Street Bombing, which killed 30 people immediately, and another eight died later of wounds sustained in the blast. There were 143 seriously injured, and the number of injured was in the hundreds.
Buda was born in the city of Savignano sul Rubicone, in the region of Romagna that at the time was a center of anarchism and it is very possible that he became an anarchist in the beginning of his teenage years. He was a restless young man, and at fifteen years of age he was arrested for robbery and then later, faced a conviction for noise pollution in the night.After he was discharged from jail, he began work as an apprentice shoemaker, but finding no economic stability, he decided to emigrate to the United States in 1907. There he was hired to work as a gardener, mason, worker in a telephone company as well as a hat factory, and many other menial jobs. In America he spent many long periods of terrible economic hardship, so in 1911 he decided to return to Italy. Two years later he returned to the United States, settling in Boston (Massachusetts), where he worked as a laborer in the footwear industry.
Buda, met Nicola Sacco during the strike of 1913 in Hopedale, and three years later, he met Bartolomeo Vanzetti in Plymouth. He began to attend the anarchist group of these two Italian-Americans who were followers of Luigi Galleani, and also devoted his free time to the organization of free Italian anarchist schools, where Italian immigrants were taught the rudiments of anarchism. In 1916 he was arrested in Boston, for taking part in a demonstration against the US intervention in World War I. During the proceedings against him, he refused to take the oath on the Bible, and was sentenced to five months in prison. In 1917, to escape the call of the army after the US entry into the war, he went with Sacco and Vanzetti and others to Monterrey (Mexico), which at this time had a vibrant community of Italian anarchists. During this time, Buda made a living as a laborer in a laundry room, sharing his salary with the other members of the community.
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