Here is the official trailer for David Gilbert’s Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond, recently published by PM Press. As many of you know, David is an anti-imperialist political prisoner serving a 75-year-to-life sentence in New York State – he has been locked up
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Sketchy Thoughts: Friday, April 13, in Philly: Love and Struggle: A Celebration of Our Movements
DOWNLOAD POSTER (black and white or color) 723 Chestnut Street at the Goldilocks Gallery, Philadelphia PAFriday April 13th at the Goldilock’s Gallery, 723 Chestnut StreetDoors open at 6:30, Program starts at 7:00http://www.facebook.com/events/352579978127280/ In honor of the publication of “Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground and Beyond”
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Gabriel Kuhn Reviews David Gilbert’s "Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond" (Oakland: PM Press, 2012)
The following review is reposted from the Alpine Anarchist: David Gilbert mentions the documentary film The Weather Underground by Sam Green and Bill Siegel, released in 2002, on the very first page of his book Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond. Gilbert relates how the film has
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Granting No Quarter: A Call for the Disavowal of the Racism and Antisemitism of Gilad Atzmon
As a follow-up to the last post, which was a public statement endorsed by over a hundred anti-imperialists, condemning the views of Gilad Atzmon, i am also re-posting this statement by 23 Palestinian activists, “Granting No Quarter: A Call for the Disavowal of the Racism and Antisemitism of Gilad Atzmon”.
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Not Quite "Ordinary Human Beings"—Anti-imperialism and the anti-humanist rhetoric of Gilad Atzmon
[This is a statement signed by almost one hundred anti-imperialists and organizations denouncing the Israeli-born jazz musician Gilad Atzmon for his antisemitism, and asking our fellow progressives to not promote him or his works. The list of endorsements included here is accurate as of March 9, 2012; an updated list
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Inmate Dies During Hunger Strike at California’s Corcoran State Prison
This troubling news reposted from Solitary Watch: News of a death in Corcoran State Prison’s Administrative Segregation Unit is emerging as an underreported hunger strike in the prison’s ASU comes to a close. Inmates in the ASU are held in 23-hour-a-day solitary confinement. Many have been in isolation for years
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Jalil Muntaqim Sent to SHU on Bogus Charge
Jalil Muntaqim has been sent to the SHU on a bogus charge (see below). Comrades from Jericho are asking that people speak with their own organizations and ask them to write or call the folks below to get Jalil out of the SHU and if possible a transfer to another facility.
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: From Bad to Worse: Transferred from Red Onion to Wallens Ridge State Prison
Wallens Ridge State Prison This is the latest dispatch from Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, Minister of Defense of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party-Prison Chapter, and author of Defying the Tomb: From Bad to Worse: Transferred from Red Onion to Wallens Ridge State PrisonBy Kevin “Rashid” Johnson On January 20, 2012,
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Defying the Tomb: Struggle, Education, Survival and Liberation in Lock-Down
WHERE: Bluestockings Bookstore, 172 Allen Street, New YorkWHEN: Saturday, February 11, 2012 @ 7pm Soledad Brother-esque, this book is a collection of letters between Johnson and a fellow prisoner, Outlaw. It also includes some essays written by Rashid discussing a variety of political issues. Acclaimed by several political prisoners and movement veterans,
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Abuse Reports Culminate In Hair-Raising Assault By Red Onion State Prison Guards
In the following report, Rashid details a vicious racist attack on his person by guards at Red Onion State Prison, which occurred on December 12, 2011. Since this report was written, Rashid’s situation has gotten even worse, as earlier this week he was transferred to Wallens Ridge State Prison (Virginia’s
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: North American Events for David Gilbert’s Love and Struggle
From coast to coast, in canada and the united states, here is a list of event around the recent release of political prisoner David Gilbert’s book Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond – please get in touch to organize an event in your area
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Class Antagonisms Inside the Fundamental Contradiction of National Oppression, by Sanyika Shakur
Class Antagonisms Inside theFundamental Contradiction of National Oppression 7–4–47 ADM (11) Havingjust passed the 19th, & quickly approaching the 20th, anniversary of theL.A. Rebellion, We should be reminded here of what Rodney King whimpered as he stoodin front of a bank of microphones surrounded by class enemies & neo-colonialpoliticians. Weshould
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Stop Ongoing Harassment of Jalil Muntaqim!
Jalil Muntaqim, POW This from comrades at Jericho: We received a call Friday morningfrom Jalil Muntaqim to advise us that his cell had been raided onThursday, January 5th.(Attica,NY) When Jalil asked why his cell was beingsearched, he was told it was because “something happened in California.”The COs confiscated pictures of
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: George Wright will not be Extradited: Portugal’s Supreme Court Confirms Decision of Lisbon Court’s Refusal of US Extradition Demand
Article by Jürgen Heiser, published in Junge Welt (29.12.2011): In the case of former US citizen, George Wright, Portugal’s Supreme Court ruled to deny an appeal made by the US Justice Department, shortly before Christmas. With its appeal, registered four weeks ago, the USA was seeking the extradition of the
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: We’re Having a Sale!!!
All of the following books and pamphlets discounted – for a limited time only! from leftwingbooks.net …
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Montreal Book Launch: CAPTIVE GENDERS: trans embodiment and the prison industrial complex (November 24)
[please post and forward widely] [français ci-dessous] [facebook: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=272424856132486] ———- Prisoner Correspondence Project, Certain Days, Kersplebedeb Publishing & QPIRG Concordia invite you to the Montreal book launch of: Captive Genders: trans embodiment and the prison industrial complex Thursday November 24th, 6:30pm QPIRG Concordia1500 de Maisonneuve O. suite 204 metro Guy Concordia Featuring:
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Agents Claim to Have Captured Alleged BLA Combatant George Wright
in happier times…Many of you will have heard the sad news that police are claiming they have arrested George Wright, an alleged former BLA combatant living in Portugal under the name Jose Luis Jorge dos Santos.Mainstream news reports state that Wrigh…
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Hungerstrike Resumes in California Prisons! (Slingshot article)
This is an article i wrote for Slingshot – it was a bit of a rush job (i only found out about it a few hours before the deadline), so hopefully i didn’t goof on anything:By the time you read this article, prisoners across California will have embarked …
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: September 26, the strike’s back on – Tortured SHU Prisoners Speak Out: “The Struggle Continues”
For the past 10-40 years thousands of California prisoners have been confined in CDC-SHU units indefinitely based on status [E.G., a gang label – active gang classification, based on innocuous association activity, and allegations from confidentia…
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Escalation of political repression at Red Onion State Prison (Virginia: United States)
From http://signalfire.org/?p=14129:Over the years long standing organizing efforts by class conscious prisoners in the Virgina state system’s two maximum security facilities (Red Onion and Wallens Ridge) have been met with systematic repression incl…
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