Accidental Death of an Anarchist Lesson Plan

Accidental Death of an Anarchist contains references to inappropriate and abusive police, legal, and governmental authorities, referring to both real and imagined events that will likely resonate with students as being very similar to events in the present day. Although police reforms and legal accountability are more robust in some parts of society than in the society that Fo represents (during a period of particularly heavy-handed authoritarian control in Italy), many similar and similarly problematic police actions take place every day around the world. Recent events in the United States have shined a spotlight on the U.S.'s own police violence and accountability problems, and...