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This book keeps alive the many key political contributions Love and Rage made to debates surrounding anarchism and organization, race, white supremacy, and the national question, as well as documenting the rise and fall of an important political movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Roy San Filippo\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781902593616\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 139 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: AK Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175068151901,"sku":"9781902593616","price":16.73,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_872_newworld3_0.jpg?v=1654987176"},{"product_id":"a-time-to-die-the-attica-prison-revolt","title":"A Time To Die: The Attica Prison Revolt","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe essential first hand account of the Attica Prison rebellion, back in print for the 40th anniversary of the uprising. In September 1971 the inmates of Attica revolted, took hostages, and forced the authorities into four days of desperate negotiation. At the outset the rebels demanded-and were granted-the presence of a group of observers to act as unofficial mediators.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTom Wicker, then the associate editor of The New York Times, was one of those summoned. In four crucial days, he learned more, saw more,and felt more than in most of the rest of his life.In the end,a police attack was launched, and as a result dozens of prisoners, as well as prison employees, were killed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWriting in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, Kurt Vonnegut said of the first edition: \"The Attican events, described with primitive energy and workday language. . . . will surely appease the hunger of tens of thousands of us for an honest insider's account of what led to such a ferocious attack on virtually unarmed prisoners. . . . [I]t is a heartbroken rather than angry book. It is a superb documentary which would hold up in court.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the occasion of its reissue, H. Bruce Franklin, author of \u003cem\u003ePrison Literature in America\u003c\/em\u003e and editor of \u003cem\u003ePrison Writing in 20th-Century America\u003c\/em\u003e, commented: \"It's a grim sign of our dark times that Tom Wicker's \u003cem\u003eA Time to Die\u003c\/em\u003e is now more timely than ever. Almost four decades after this book revealed to the world both the horrid conditions that led to the Attica prison revolt and the ensuing carnage and torture carried out by New York State authorities, America's prison system has evolved into one of the most hideous and massive violations of human rights on our planet today. Wicker's role at Attica was a life-changing experience for him, and this book he published in 1975 seemed at the time to be an alarming wake-up call for the nation. Now that this great work is back in print, Wicker's vision can help make the nation confront the roots and realities of the twenty-first-century American prison.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTom Wicker, a former reporter, Washington bureau chief, and columnist for \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, is the author of several books, including \u003cem\u003eOn the Record\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Rochester, Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for the Haymarket edition \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To get a sense of what was at stake at Attica in fully realized detail, Wicker’s extraordinary account of his four days among the observers, \u003cem\u003eA Time to Die\u003c\/em\u003e is indispensable. With its intermingling of personal confession and public significance, it is a real masterpiece of the first wave of the nonfiction novel, as good, in its more sober way, as Mailer’s “Armies of the Night.” \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It's a grim sign of our dark times that Tom Wicker's \u003cem\u003eA Time to Die\u003c\/em\u003e is now more timely than ever. Almost four decades after this book revealed to the world both the horrid conditions that led to the Attica prison revolt and the ensuing carnage and torture carried out by New York State authorities, America's prison system has evolved into one of the most hideous and massive violations of human rights on our planet today. Wicker's role at Attica was a life-changing experience for him, and this book he published in 1975 seemed at the time to be an alarming wake-up call for the nation. Now that this great work is back in print, Wicker's vision can help make the nation confront the roots and realities of the twenty-first-century American prison.\" H. Bruce Franklin, author of Prison Literature in America and editor of Prison Writing in 20th-Century America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Attica rebellion and Rockefeller-sanctioned massacre occurred forty years ago. Tom Wicker's story though could not be more vital today in the United States, where we have ten times the number of prisoners as we did at the time of Attica and our prisons make an art out of destroying human beings. \u003cem\u003eA Time To Die\u003c\/em\u003e compels us to understand the inhumanity of prisons in America, one of the greatest injustices of our time, and of a state that has no compunction about murdering prisoners and jailers alike. If you believe that the state puts any value on the lives of the incarcerated or on their jailers, this book will change you forever. Think Attica forty years ago, think Pelican Bay today. Then act.\" Michael Ratner, President, Center for Constitutional Rights\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eA Time to Die\u003c\/em\u003e is a searing portrait, not only of one of the great historical tragedies of the U.S. prison system, but of a journalist who wishes desperately to contribute to the struggle for racial justice while also grappling with his own white, middle-class biases. Its lessons-about the racist underpinnings of mass incarceration, about the cynical politics that determine life-or-death decisions, and about the conditions that deny prisoners their basic humanity-are as relevant today as when it was first published. This is a book that should be taught in classrooms.\" Liliana Segura, Associate Editor, \u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for previous editions \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Attican events, described with primitive energy and workday language. . . . will surely appease the hunger of tens of thousands of us for an honest insider's account of what led to such a ferocious attack on virtually unarmed prisoners. . . . [I]t is a heartbroken rather than angry book. It is a superb documentary which would hold up in court.\" Kurt Vonnegut, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Time to Die\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent and gripping account of a massacre that dramatized some appalling weaknesses in the fabric of our society.\" Robert E. Walters, \u003cem\u003eNation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of Wicker's most telling points is that the placement of these 'human warehouses' [in Attica] out of sight of the law-abiding who need never go there has resulted in their administration by guards unable to cope with, sometimes unable even to understand the language of their charges. . . . Wicker is scathing on Rockefeller's evident belief that 'the order of things must be preserved.'\" Walter Clemons, \u003cem\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Time to Die\u003c\/i\u003e is detailed, painstakingly thorough, explicit in its detail and photographs, and frightening in its implications.\" Jack McDonald, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Bar Association Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tom Wicker's \u003ci\u003eA Time to Die\u003c\/i\u003e is multilayered. On one level, it is history; on a second, political philosophy; on a third, autobiography; and on a final level, an appeal for prison reform. Above all, however, it is good writing.\" James T. Carney, \u003ci\u003eYale Law Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A Time to Die] is an unusual blend of reporting and personal soul searching. . . . [T]he result is tense, gripping, and shocking.\" Joy Macari, \u003cem\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinner of the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Fact Crime book in 1976.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175068807261,"sku":"9781608462155","price":25.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_863_timetodie3_0.jpg?v=1654987181"},{"product_id":"normal-life-administrative-violence-critical-trans-politics-and-the-limits-of-law","title":"Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law (Revised \u0026 Expanded)","description":"\u003cp style=\"line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eWait—what's wrong with rights?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e It is usually assumed that trans and gender nonconforming people should follow the civil rights and \"equality\" strategies of lesbian and gay rights organizations by agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee nondiscrimination and equal protection under the law. This approach assumes that the best way to address the poverty and criminalization that plague trans populations is to gain legal recognition and inclusion in the state's institutions. But is this strategy effective?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eNormal Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dean-spade\" title=\"Dean Spade\"\u003eDean Spade\u003c\/a\u003e presents revelatory critiques of the legal equality framework for social change, and points to examples of transformative grassroots trans activism that is raising demands that go beyond traditional civil rights reforms. Spade explodes assumptions about what legal rights can do for marginalized populations, and describes transformative resistance processes and formations that address the root causes of harm and violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the new afterword to this revised and expanded edition, Spade notes the rapid mainstreaming of trans politics and finds that his predictions that gaining legal recognition will fail to benefit trans populations are coming to fruition. Spade examines recent efforts by the Obama administration and trans equality advocates to \"pinkwash\" state violence by articulating the US military and prison systems as sites for trans inclusion reforms. In the context of recent increased mainstream visibility of trans people and trans politics, Spade continues to advocate for the dismantling of systems of state violence that shorten the lives of trans people. Now more than ever, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eNormal Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e is an urgent call for justice and trans liberation, and the radical transformations it will require. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\"With \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNormal Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Spade has succeeded in reframing the terms of LGBT politics by building a far-reaching vision for queer and trans politics that is rooted in community work that has already begun. . . . [It] lay[s] out a road map for queer and trans activists that leads neither to the altar nor to war, but guides us to resist state power by building community and returning to our radical roots.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWendy Elisheva Somerson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBitch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dean Spade’s much-anticipated book is a rich tapestry of critical inquiry, interventions into legal and transgender studies, and strategies for transformative resistance. . . . The strength of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNormal Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e lies in Spade’s commitment to accessibility as a matter of political and ethical principle. This principle is evident in the way Spade skillfully articulates theoretical concepts in common parlance, enabling critical trans politics to inform political struggles beyond the academy. Moreover, his concrete discussions of administrative governance and transformative political interventions position radical change within our reach rather than demarcate it to the realm of speculative futures.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDan Irving\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGLQ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNormal Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e] makes an important contribution to a new and emerging critical trans politic. It is provocative, comprehensive, and engaging. It should be widely discussed as an important strategic framework for work within the LGBTQ movement.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJennifer Levi and Giovanna Shay\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWomen's Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Spade's book is personal, practical, and theoretical. It lays out a framework for a critical trans politics, and gives fresh analyses of immigration, legal reform, wealth distribution, and lesbian and gay politics—all buoyantly and optimistically aimed at a repaired world.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eKate Clinton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eProgressive\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Spade] provides an eminently teachable text for courses on power in society, social movements, and community organizing—in the university, and outside. . . .We will have to take Spade's proposals very seriously to build a movement centered on those most affected by administrative violence.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMarcia Ochoa\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSocial Justice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\"This street-smart and theoretically sophisticated little book should be required reading for all would-be radicals looking for practical ways to build a better future.\" Susan Stryker author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTransgender History\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-extend-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\"\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eDean Spade is an Assistant Professor at the Seattle University School of Law. In 2002, Spade founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a nonprofit law collective that provides free legal services to transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming people who are low-income and\/or people of color. For more writing by Dean Spade, see \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca class=\"a-link-normal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deanspade.net\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehttp:\/\/www.deanspade.net.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175070150749,"sku":"9780822360407","price":29.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/91zau6kq86L._SL1500.jpg?v=1718210812"},{"product_id":"black-flags-and-windmills-hope-anarchy-and-the-common-ground-collective","title":"Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen both levees and governments failed in New Orleans in the Fall of 2005, scott crow headed into the political storm, co-founding a relief effort called the Common Ground Collective. In the absence of local government, FEMA, and the Red Cross, this unusual volunteer organization, based on ‘solidarity not charity,’ built medical clinics, set up food and water distribution, and created community gardens. They also resisted home demolitions, white militias, police brutality and FEMA incompetence side by side with the people of New Orleans. crow’s vivid memoir maps the intertwining of his radical experience and ideas with Katrina’s reality, and community efforts to translate ideals into action. It is a story of resisting indifference, rebuilding hope amidst collapse, and struggling against the grain. \u003cem\u003eBlack Flags and Windmills\u003c\/em\u003e invites and challenges all of us to learn from our histories, and dream of better worlds. And gives us some of the tools to do so. \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/27543529\"\u003e'Blackflags and Windmills' TRAILER\u003c\/a\u003e from \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user6110357\"\u003eLouisiana Lucy\u003c\/a\u003e on \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/\"\u003eVimeo\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“It is a brilliant, detailed, and humble book written with total frankness and at the same time a revolutionary poet’s passion. It makes the reader feel that we too, with our emergency heart as our guide, can do anything; we only need to begin.” —Marina Sitrin, author of \u003cem\u003eHorizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina\u003c\/em\u003e “This book is a key document in that real and a remarkable story of an activist’s personal and philosophical evolution.” —Rebecca Solnit, author of \u003cem\u003eA Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster\u003c\/em\u003e “This is a compelling tale for our times.” —Bill Ayers, author of \u003cem\u003eFugitive Days\u003c\/em\u003e “ … crow is a puppetmaster…” —Federal Bureau of Investigation “For decades \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjI2OTY5In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/scott-crow\" title=\"scott crow\"\u003escott crow\u003c\/a\u003e has approached his political organizing with humility, resilience, and honesty, and he continues to do so in \u003cem\u003eBlack Flags and Windmills\u003c\/em\u003e.” —Will Potter, author of \u003cem\u003eGreen Is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003escott crow is an Austin, TX based anarchist community organizer, writer, and trainer who began working on anti-apartheid, international political prisoner and animal rights issues in the mid 1980s. He is the co-founder and co-organizer of several social justice groups and education projects throughout Texas and the South including Common Ground Collective (with Malik Rahim), Radical Encuentro Camp, UPROAR (United People Resisting Oppression and Racism), Dirty South Earth First!, and North Texas Coalition for a Just Peace. He has trained and organized for Greenpeace, Ruckus Society, Rainforest Action Network, A.C.O.R.N., Forest Ethics, and Ralph Nader, and many smaller grassroots groups. He is currently collaborating on long-term sustainable democratic economic mutual aid projects within Austin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Scott Crow\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60486-077-1\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 256 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175074377821,"sku":"9781604860771","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_878_black_flags_windmills_3_0.jpg?v=1654987227"},{"product_id":"dark-alliance-the-cia-the-contras-and-the-crack-cocaine-explosion","title":"Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDark Alliance\u003c\/em\u003e is a book that should be fiction, whose characters seem to come straight out of central casting: the international drug lord, Norwin Meneses; the Contra cocaine broker with an MBA in marketing, Danilo Blandon; and the illiterate teenager from the inner city who rises to become the king of crack, \"Freeway\" Ricky Ross. But unfortunately, these characters are real and their stories are true.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the \u003cem\u003eSan Jose Mercury News\u003c\/em\u003e reporting the results of his year-long investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in America, specifically in Los Angeles. The series, titled \"Dark Alliance,\" revealed that for the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to Los Angeles street gangs and funneled millions in drug profits to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow Gary Webb has pushed his investigation even further in his book, \u003cem\u003eDark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion\u003c\/em\u003e. Drawing from recently declassified documents, undercover DEA audio and videotapes that have never been publicly released, federal court testimony, and interviews, Webb demonstrates how our government knowingly allowed massive amounts of drugs and money to change hands at the expense of our communities. 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Inspired by the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who called for a “true revolution of values” against the racism, militarism, and materialism which he saw as the heart of a society “approaching spiritual death,” this book recognizes that—for the most part—the traditional peace movement has not been moved far beyond the half-century-old call for a deepening critique of its own prejudices. While reviewing the major points of intersection between white supremacy and the war machine through both historic and contemporary articles from a diverse range of scholars and activists, the editors emphasize what needs to be done now to move forward for lasting social change. Produced in collaboration with the War Resisters League, the book also examines the strategic and tactic possibilities of radical transformation through revolutionary nonviolence. Among the historic texts included are rarely-seen writings by antiracist icons such as Anne Braden, Barbara Deming, and Audre Lorde, as well as a dialogue between Dr. King, revolutionary nationalist Robert F. Williams, Dave Dellinger, and Dorothy Day. Never-before-published pieces appear from civil rights and gay rights organizer Bayard Rustin and from celebrated U.S. pacifist supporter of Puerto Rican sovereignty Ruth Reynolds. Additional articles making their debut in this collection include new essays by and interviews with Fred Ho, Jose Lopez, Joel Kovel, Francesca Fiorentini and Clare Bayard, David McReynolds, Greg Payton, Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Ellen Barfield, Jon Cohen, Suzanne Ross, Sachio Ko-Yin, Edward Hasbrouck, Dean Johnson, and \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dan-berger\" title=\"Dan Berger\"\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/a\u003e. Other contributions include work by Andrea Dworkin, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Starhawk, Andrea Smith, John Stoltenberg, Vincent Harding, Liz McAlister, Victor Lewis, Matthew Lyons, Tim Wise, Dorothy Cotton, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/ruth-wilson-gilmore\" title=\"Ruth Wilson Gilmore\"\u003eRuth Wilson Gilmore\u003c\/a\u003e, Kenyon Farrow, Frida Berrigan, David Gilbert, Chris Crass, and many others. Peppered throughout the anthology are original and new poems by Chrystos, Dylcia Pagan, Malkia M’Buzi Moore, Sarah Husein, Mary Jane Sullivan, Liz Roberts, and the late Marilyn Buck.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“When we sang out ‘We Shall Not Be Moved’ in Montgomery and Selma, we were committed to our unshakeable unity against segregation and violence. This important book continues in that struggle—suggesting ways in which we need to do better, and actions we must take against war and continued racism today. If the human race is still here in 2111, the War Resisters League will be one of the reasons why!” —Pete Seeger, folk singer and activist “The rich and still evolving tradition of revolutionary pacifism, effectively sampled in these thoughtful and penetrating essays, offers the best hope we have for overcoming threats that are imminent and grim, and for moving on to create a society that is more just and free. These outstanding contributions should be carefully pondered, and taken to heart as a call for action.” —Noam Chomsky, professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist “One of the biggest stumbling blocks to building a successful movement against war has been our inability to cross racial and cultural lines, bridging the divides created and maintained by the powers that be. Since the 1960s, there have been some hopeful signs—in grassroots groups and in educational efforts—but the road forward is still long and difficult. The contributors to We Have Not Been Moved, with extraordinary scope and vision, have given us an indispensable tool to fight oppression, resist war and injustice, and create powerful new coalitions for lasting social change. This volume should be required reading—alongside of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States—in every sociology and political science class.” —Connie Hogarth, life-long peace and justice activist and inspiration for Manhattanville College’s Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action; co-founder and former executive director of the Westchester People’s Action Coalition “While it is nearly impossible to agree, or to disagree, with the totality of this or any other book, I applaud the ways in which We Have Not Been Moved helps us sharpen our understanding of these moral and social imperatives. This book is in the best tradition of civil and human rights movements and a welcome addition to the literature on these crucial issues.” —Congressman Luis V. Gutiérrez, (D-IL) “In an era of rampant militarism, growing anti-Islamic sentiment and racist violence, the essays in We Have Not Been Moved provide us with urgently needed analytical frameworks and on-the-ground strategies for challenging structural injustice. The wide range of voices in this collection, spanning generations and social movements, remind us of the interconnectedness of our struggles against racism, militarism, violence, and injustice, and collectively urge us to build a unified, principled movement to resist intensified empire.” —Angela Y. Davis author, activist, and professor emerita, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Elizabeth Betita Martínez\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Betita Martínez is a Chicana feminist and a long-time community organizer, activist, author, and educator. She has written numerous books and articles on different topics relating to social movements in the Americas. Her best-known work is the bilingual 500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures, which later formed the basis for the educational video ¡Viva la Causa! 500 Years of Chicano History. Her work has been hailed by Angela Y. Davis as comprising \"one of the most important living histories of progressive activism in the contemporary era … [Martínez is] inimitable…irrepressible…indefatigable.\" Martínez began her political work in the early 1950s. She worked in New York for the United Nations Secretariat as a researcher on colonialism and decolonization in Africa. During the 1960s, Martínez served full-time in the civil rights movement with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the South and as a coordinator of its New York office. In 1968, she moved to New Mexico to start a newspaper to support the Alianza Federal de Mercedes. Along with lawyer Beverly Axelrod, Martínez founded the bilingual movement newspaper El Grito del Norte, and co-founded and directed the Chicano Communications Center, a barrio-based organizing and education project. Since moving to the Bay Area in 1976, Martínez has organized around Latino community issues, taught women’s studies, conducted anti-racist training workshops, and worked with youth groups. She ran for governor of California on the Peace \u0026amp; Freedom Party ticket in 1982 and has received many awards from student, community, and academic organizations, including Scholar of the Year 2000 by the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies. She is the author of De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century (1998), and editor of SNCC’s Letters From Mississippi (1964). In 1997, she and Phil Hutchings co-founded the Institute for MultiRacial Justice, which \"aims to strengthen the struggle against white supremacy by serving as a resource center to help build alliances among peoples of color and combat divisions.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Mandy Carter\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMandy Carter began her long career as a human rights and nonviolent activist working with the War Resister's League (WRL) in San Francisco, beginning in 1969. A veteran of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People Campaign, Carter has been called “one of the nation’s leading African American lesbian activists” by the National Organization of Women. She has served on countless planning committees for national and regional lesbian and gay pride marches—including the steering committee for the historic 1987 March on Washington for Lesbians and Gays. As a staff member of the WRL’s Southeast regional office throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, Carter worked on the Boards of the National Stonewall Democratic Federation, the Triangle Foundation, Equal Partners in Faith, and Ladyslipper Music. In 1992, Carter joined the staff of the Human Rights Campaign in Washington DC, serving as Public Policy Advocate with a particular focus on the religious and radical right's attacks on gays and lesbians through exploitation of the black community. In 1995, she returned to the south and founded North Carolina Mobilization '96, an electoral campaign organizing against long-time Senator Jesse Helms. She also has served as the national field director and board member of the National Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Forum. Carter is a co-founder of Southerners on New Ground (SONG). In 2010, the National Black Justice Coalition featured Mandy in their “Jewel” column, noting that she is “a legend in the LGBT community, the Black community, and to all of us concerned about peace.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Matt Meyer\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMatt Meyer is an educator-activist, based in New York City. Founding co-chair of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, and former Chair of the Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development (COPRED), Meyer has long worked to bring together academics and activists for lasting social change. A former public draft registration resister and chair of the War Resisters League, he continues to serve as convener of the War Resisters International Africa Working Group. With Bill Sutherland, Meyer authored Guns and Gandhi in Africa: Pan-African Insights on Nonviolence, Armed Struggle and Liberation (2000), of which Archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote, \"Sutherland and Meyer have looked beyond the short-term strategies and tactics which too often divide progressive people… They have begun to develop a language which looks at the roots of our humanness.\" Meyer is author of Time is Tight: Transformative Education in Eritrea, South Africa, and the USA (2007), based in part on his experiences as Multicultural Coordinator for the NYC Board of Education's Alternative High Schools and Programs. He has edited the Fellowship of Reconciliation's Puerto Rico: The Cost of Colonialism; guest edited numerous special issues of Blackwell\/Sage Press’ professional journal Peace \u0026amp; Change; and—with Elavie Ndura-Ouedraogo—co-edited the two-volume series Seeds of New Hope: Pan African Peace Studies for the 21st Century (2009) and Seeds Bearing Fruit: Pan African Peace Action for the 21st Century (2010). Meyer is also a founder of the local anti-imperialist collective Resistance in Brooklyn, and editor of Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents From the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners (2008). Argentine Nobel Peace laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel has commented that “Meyer is a coalition-builder,” one who “provides tools for today’s activists” in his writings and work. Esquivel cited Let Freedom Ring, for which he provided the foreword, as “a welcome and important addition to the growing literature on U.S. human rights abuses.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Cornel West (Introduction)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton University. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. He has taught at Union Theological Seminary, Yale, Harvard, and the University of Paris. He has written 19 books and edited 13 books. He is best known for his classic Race Matters, Democracy Matters, and his new memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. He appears frequently on the Bill Maher Show, Colbert Report, CNN and C-Span as well as on his dear Brother, Tavis Smiley’s PBS TV Show.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Alice Walker (Afterword\/poems)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlice Walker’s writings have been translated into more than two dozen languages, and her books have sold more than fifteen million copies. Along with the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Walker’s awards and fellowships include a Guggenheim Fellowship and a residency at Yaddo. In 2006, Walker was honored as one of the inaugural inductees into the California Hall of Fame. 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In My People Are Rising, he traces the course of his own radicalization, and that of a generation. Through his eyes, we witness the courage and commitment of the young men and women who rose up in rebellion, risking their lives in the name of freedom. My People are Rising is an unforgettable tale of their triumphs and tragedies, and the enduring legacy of Black Power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"body\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e“This book is a moving memoir experience: a must read. The dramatic life cycle rise of a youthful sixties political revolutionary.\" Bobby Seale, founding Chairman and National Organizer of the Black Panther Party: 1966 to 1974\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Aaron Dixon is a courageous, compassionate, and wise freedom fighter whose story of his pioneering work in the Black Panther Party is powerful and poignant. Don't miss it!\" Cornel West\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dixon’s lyrical prose provides a candid appraisal of the Black Panther Party that highlights the neglected contributions of Northwest activists. This is a striking blend of social history, memoir and political analysis. 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Meanwhile, activists fought to defend the traditional family or to expand the rights of women, while entire towns organized to protest the toxic sludge in their basements. Recalling Love Canal, the tax revolt in California, ACT UP, and other crusades famous or forgotten, Foley shows how Americans were propelled by personal experiences and emotions into the public sphere. Disregarding conventional ideas of left and right, they turned to political action when they perceived, from their actual or figurative front porches, an immediate threat to their families, homes, or dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFront Porch Politics is a vivid and authoritative people’s history of a time when Americans followed their outrage into the streets. Addressing today’s readers, it is also a field guide for effective activism in an era when mass movements may seem impractical or even passé. The distinctively visceral, local, and highly personal politics that Americans practiced in the 1970s and 1980s provide a model of citizenship participation worth emulating if we are to renew our democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePLEASE NOTE THAT THIS BOOK HAS BEEN REMAINDERED. 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From these experiences, Dispatches Against Displacement draws out a vision of what alternative urbanism might look like if our cities were developed by and for the people who bring them to life and keep them running.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“We are all too well adjusted.” says James Tracy, “to an economic system that evicts, downsizes, pollutes, and imprisons. This same system also comes equipped with a well-oiled public-relations system calibrated to rob us of something even more profound: our ability to imagine a different state of affairs.” In San Francisco, that system is eroding the city with waves of cash flowing north from Silicon Valley. Recent evictions of long-time San Francisco residents, outrageous rents and home prices, and blockaded “Google buses” are only the tip of the iceberg. 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And it is a defiant story, told from the front lines of citizens fighting for the right to their city.”—Raj Patel, author of \u003cem\u003eStuffed and Starved\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“With the insight of a poet and the long-term vision of a seasoned organizer, Dispatches Against Displacement weaves together a powerful, instructive, hilarious, and poignant description of how the working class fights back in the City by the Bay.”—Alicia Garza, National Domestic Workers Alliance\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJames Tracy is a Bay Area native and a well-respected community organizer. He is co-founder of the San Francisco Community Land Trust (which uses public and private money to buy up housing stock and take it out of the real estate market), as well as a poet and co-author of \u003cem\u003eHillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: James Tracy\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781849352055\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 150 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: AK Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175196274781,"sku":"9781849352055","price":22.33,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/dispatchescaps.jpg?v=1654987829"},{"product_id":"jailbreak-out-of-history-the-re-biography-of-harriet-tubman-the-evil-of-female-loaferism","title":"Jailbreak Out of History: The Re-Biography of Harriet Tubman, \u0026 \"The Evil of Female Loaferism\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eJailbreak Out of History\u003c\/em\u003e, revolutionary Amazon theorist Butch Lee shows how the anticolonial struggles of New Afrikan\/Black women were central to the unfolding of 19th century amerika, both during and \"after\" slavery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book's title essay, \"The Re-Biography of Harriet Tubman\" (which can be read online \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kersplebedeb.com\/posts\/jailbreak\/\" style=\"color: #07b1b9;\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e) recounts the life and politics of Harriet Tubman, who waged and eventually lead the war against the capitalist slave system. As Lee explains, \"Harriet Tubman was a radical political figure, someone totally involved as a player in the great political ideas and military storms of her day. She was a guerrilla. Someone who lived and taught others to live by the communal and working-class New Afrikan culture that her people had planted in this difficult ground, and a Black Feminist to the end.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the same time, Lee exposes how the white supremacist patriarchy has distorted the truth of Harriet's life, by both trivializing and exceptionalizing her. Countering this disinformation, \"The Re-Biography of Harriet Tubman\" surveys the reality of struggle before and during the u.s. Civil War, showing how New Afrikan women were repeatedly taking up the task of smashing the slave system that confined them, on their own terms. Lee shows how what was special about Harriet was not that she was unique in resisting, but rather because of her military skill - \"She was one of the most brilliant professional practitioners ever at the art of war. As a guerrilla, so elusive that she could strike fatal blows and never be felt. Lead battles and go unseen. As an Amazon, she conducted warfare in a zone beyond men’s comprehension. But her blows still fell on point.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJailbreak Out of History\u003c\/em\u003e's second essay, written in 2014, picks up the story where The Re-Biography leaves off, showing how New Afrikan women's labor and resistance remained central to how the global class struggle played out in the united states after the white men's Civil War came to an end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The Evil of Female Loaferism\" details New Afrikan women's attempts to withdraw from and evade capitalist colonialism, an unofficial but massive labor strike which threw the capitalists North and South into a panic. The ruling class response consisted of the \"Black Codes\", Jim Crow, re-enslavement through prison labor, mass violence, and ... the establishment of a neo-colonial Black patriarchy, whose task was to make New Afrikan women subordinate to New Afrikan men just as New Afrika was supposed to be subordinate to white amerika:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"During the Civil War and after 1865, New Afrikan women led a limited strategy of rebellion both spontaneous and conscious. Away from patriarchal capitalism and its attempts to re-enslave them. Living their communal culture created for survival during captivity. Mass withholding of their labor from plantations, insistence on their right to reject fulltime wage labor, fighting to regain control over their bodies in production and reproduction both, New Afrikan women in particular cracked the old plantation system. For without the mass labor gangs the old plantation system couldn’t work. The compromise they forced on the planter capitalists, even within the larger setback for liberation during the fall of Black Reconstruction, was the semi-feudal sharecropping system. Where families tilled fields and raised their children without white overseers although under the onerous class conditions of a defeated communal nation...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"New Afrikan women’s strategy back then grew spontaneously out of their daily lives, their experiences and needs. Not out of some textbook or some political protest routine. Stubbornly living communal culture and fighting capitalism is often ignored or dismissed as “impractical.” Yet and again, it was that partial strategy by women back then that proved most useful in real life. Still, it did not make that very difficult hurdle from the level of spontaneous breakout to the level of conscious strategy. In which analysis, tentative strategic understanding, new tactics \u0026amp; practice, criticism of results, and then the emergence of new strategy, all flow in a continuous dialectical circle of struggle. And those partial women’s struggles \u0026amp; victories, great as they were, underline the reality that if you don’t have a strategy to end a war then someone else will usually end it for you. But you won’t like it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"All these earlier battles throughout the New Afrikan nation still throw light for us on the latest battlefield. And on battles certain to come.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eButch Lee (1940–2021) was an Amazon theorist. Her work deals with the need to understand women's struggles in both their class and military dimensions, as well as the fundamental importance of grasping the relationship between colonialism, neo-colonialism, and patriarchy. Her other books include \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/the-military-strategy-of-women-and-children\"\u003eThe Military Strategy of Women and Children\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/night-vision-illuminating-war-and-class-on-the-neo-colonial-terrain\"\u003eNight-Vision: Illuminating War and Class on the Neo-Colonial Terrain\u003c\/a\u003e. 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Sakai shares experiences from his own life as a revolutionary in the united states, exploring what it means to belong to an “unimportant minority.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/kersplebedeb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/banner_tan.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"banner_tan\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7450\" src=\"http:\/\/kersplebedeb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/banner_tan.jpg\" style=\"height:319px; width:410px\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eQuoting from the book:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRace is notoriously slippery, awkward to hold onto as a subject, yet totally all around us. Totally. All the time, every day, we breathe it; \u003cem\u003eafter all, it is us\u003c\/em\u003e, so we can’t ever be far from it. This seeming contradiction of what should be so simple being endlessly complicated in society is because how we think about race, how we talk about race … capitalism is constantly trying to police this. They don’t want to neaten it, they actually want to constrict it and keep remaking it in their own distorted images and stamping it on our faces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo in u.s. society ...  capitalism pushes thinking and talking about race into the dominant form of a white\/Black paradigm. Where everything is supposed to be arranged according to the relationship between white men—who are defined as: What’s “normal”, the standard—and New Afrikan people—who are indirectly or covertly depicted as incomplete or deficient models of the first. So that the supposed goal of capitalistic “antiracism” is that eventually at some point everyone will be exactly like white men.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWell, we don’t have to comment really on that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInto this paradigm, everyone else—“unimportant minorities”—are essentially crammed and flattened into that two-dimensional story, according to some always shifting order that they have, judging by how important or unimportant they think we are.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis raises a question: What is an unimportant minority? Am not going to answer that, but let me point you in a certain direction ...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"backcover_col\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8554\" src=\"http:\/\/kersplebedeb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/backcover_col.jpg\" style=\"height:600px; width:499px\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: J. 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Over the next year, tactics escalated to include burning company property and looting company stores. This was one of the largest insurrections in US working-class history. It happened at the same time as the widely publicized northern labor war in Homestead, Pennsylvania. And it was largely ignored, then and now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDixie Be Damned\u003c\/em\u003e engages seven similarly \"hidden\" insurrectionary episodes in Southern history to demonstrate the region's long arc of revolt. Countering images of the South as pacified and conservative, this adventurous retelling presents history in the rough. Not the image of the South many expect, this is the South of maroon rebellion, wildcat strikes, and Robert F. Williams's book Negroes with Guns, a South where the dispossessed refuse to quietly suffer their fate. This is people's history at its best: slave revolts, multiracial banditry, labor battles, prison uprisings, urban riots, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNeal Shirley grew up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and now lives in Durham, NC, where he is involved in several anti-prison initiatives and runs a small publishing project called the North Carolina Piece Corps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSaralee Stafford was born in the Piedmont of North Carolina. Her recent political work has focused on connecting the struggles of street organizations with those of anarchists in the area. She teaches gender-related health in Durham, North Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eINTERLUDE I\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Subtle yet Restless Fire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAttacking Slavery from the Dark Fens of the Great Dismal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eINTERLUDE II\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOgeechee Till Death\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExpropriation and Communization in Low-country Georgia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eINTERLUDE III\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Lowry Wars\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAttacking Reconstruction and Reaction in Robeson County, North Carolina\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eINTERLUDE IV\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Stockade Stood Burning\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRebellion and the Convict Lease in Tennessee’s Coalfields\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eINTERLUDE V\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWild Hearts in the Southern Mills\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWomen in the Strike Wave against the Textile Industry, 1929–1930\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eINTERLUDE VI\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Rebel to Citizen and Back Again\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCivil Rights, Black Power, and Urban Riots in the New South\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eINTERLUDE VII\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“We Asked For Life!”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the 1975 Revolt at the North Carolina Correctional Center for Women\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eINTERLUDE VIII\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePreliminary Notes for an Anarchist Historiography of the American South\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Neal Shirley\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Saralee Stafford\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781849352079\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 280 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: AK Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175213871197,"sku":"9781849352079","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/dixie_be_damned.jpg?v=1654987905"},{"product_id":"before-the-next-bomb-drops","title":"Before the Next Bomb Drops","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore the Next Bomb Drops explores the Israeli occupation of Palestine and US militarism through a poetic lens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ewe are the boat \/ returning to dock \/ we are the footprints \/ on the northern trail \/ we are the iron \/ coloring the soil \/ we cannot \/ be erased\u003cbr\u003e\n—from \"Refugee\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRemi Kanazi's poetry presents an unflinching look at the lives of Palestinians under occupation and as refugees scattered across the globe. 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David Gilbert gives us historical analysis to understand this ruling class strategy, and how we can unite white people across class to a collective liberation vision with racial justice at the center.” —Chris Crass, author of \u003cem\u003eTowards the “Other America”: Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Gilbert, a longtime anti-racist and anti-imperialist, first became active in the Civil Rights movement in 1961. In 1965, he started the Vietnam Committee at Columbia University; in 1967 he co-authored the first Students for a Democratic Society pamphlet naming the system “imperialism”; and he was active in the Columbia strike of 1968. 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Gold, silver, and sleek iPhones—they all glitter in the California sun and are at least as magnetic as the city’s spectacular setting, benign climate, and laissez-faire lifestyles. The cast of characters changes, but the hustlers and thought-shapers eternally reign over the city and its hinterland, while in their wake they leave a ruined landscape of exorbitant housing, suburban sprawl, traffic paralysis, and delusional ideas about a market free enough to rob the majority of their freedom. Read all about it here, and weep.” —Gray Brechin, author of \u003cem\u003eImperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Too many studies of cities dwell on their peculiarities; this fascinating book balances the dramatic story of the Bay Area against a profound understanding of urbanization. It eschews a descriptive narrative in favor of hard-hitting critical analysis. 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At fewer than 150 pages, written in accessible language, illustrated with an abundance of original photographs, this book should be on the coffee tables of all those invested in returning to a tradition of class struggle in the US.\" -Sharon Smith, author of \u003cem\u003eSubterranean Fire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Brandon Weber’s \u003cem\u003eClass War USA \u003c\/em\u003eisn’t just a retelling of well-known and not-so-well-known strikes. Weber has done for a new generation of social and labor activists what Sid Lens did for an earlier one: bring to life the hard scrabble union, social, and political struggles of working class people from the past to the present. 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For more information, visit http:\/\/juntegente.org\/.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNaomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, documentary filmmaker and author of the international bestsellers No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, and No Is Not Enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Fearless necessary reporting . . . Klein exposes the 'battle of utopias' that is currently unfolding in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico—a battle that pits a pitilessly neoliberal plutocratic ‘paradise' against a community movement with Puerto Rican sovereignty at its center.” Junot Díaz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"We are in a fight for our lives. 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