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Mario Buda
Born	(1884-01-10)January 10, 1884 Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy
Died	June 1, 1963(1963-06-01) (aged 78) Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Known for	Bomb Creation (Wall Street bombing)

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 an Propaganda of the deed anarchist. He is best known as the perpetrator of the Wall Street Bombing, which killed 30 people immediately, and another 8 died later of wounds sustained in the blast. There were 143 seriously injured, and the total number of injured was in the hundreds.

Early life and career

Buda was born in the city of Savignano sul Rubicone, a region that at the time was a center of anarchism and abroad and is very possible that he became an anarchist in the beginning of his teenage years. He grew restless and in his fifteen years was arrested for robbery and then later, underwent a new conviction for noise pollution in the night. Discharged, he begans work as an apprentice shoemaker, but finding no economic stability in 1907 he decided to emigrate to the United States. Here performs ans countless jobs like gardener, worker in a company telephone end in a hat factory,a mason end others. As in America lives long periods of terrible economic hardship , in 1911 decides to return to Italy. Two years later he went back to the United States , settling in Boston (Massachusetts ) , where he worked as a laborer in the footwear industry.

Life in the United States, and Sacco and Vanzetti meeting

Buda, meats Nicola Sacco during the strike of 1913 in Hopedale, and three years later, meats Bartolomeo Vanzetti in Plymouth. He attended the anarchist group of the two Italian-Americans and Luigi Galleani,and devotes his free time to the organization of tree Italian anarchist schools of thought, where Italian immigrants are taught the rudiments of anarchism. In 1916 he was arrested in Boston, for taking part in a demonstration against the US intervention in the World War I. During the proceedings against him, he refuses to take the Oath on the bible, and is sentenced to five months in prison. To escape the call of the army after the US entry into the war , in 1917 went with Sacco and Vanzetti and other anarchists in Monterrey(Mexico),where he had formed a vibrant community of Italian anarchists. At that time, Buda makes a living as a laborer in a laundry room sharing his salary together with the other members of the community.

Terrorist activities

In 1917 In 1917 is meats with ten other anarchists (including his friend Carlo Valdinoci) for an attack to the police station in Milwaukee (24 November) that had caused the death of 10 policemen and 1 civilian. The action was in retaliation against the killing of two anarchist during the anti-military rally held in Milwaukee September 9, 1917. The authorities, however, will never be able to prove the guilt of the accused, because many of them were in prison at time of the bombing. As a response to the repression anarchist, across the country are followed the bombings (June 2, 1919 bombs explode in Paterson, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Washington), although most will not create serious consequences. In this climate, October 16, 1918 was promulgated the New Immigration Act, by which they could be expelled foreigners involved or simply accused of subversive activities. Will be many anarchists repatriated to their country of origin because of this law.