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Rebel Lives: Sacco & Vanzetti edited by John Davis Italian immigrants and anarchists framed by the state and executed for murder in Boston during the Red Scare of the 1920’s. An illuminating example of how immigrants, anarchists and communists were the “terrorists” of yesteryear ... MORE INFO |
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DVD: Legacy of Torture - The War Against the Black Liberation Movement On Jan. 23, 2007, after a two-year witch hunt by local, state and federal police, six former Bay Area Black Panther Party organizers were arrested: Richard Brown, Richard O’Neal, Francisco Torres, Ray Boudreaux, Hank Jones and Harold Taylor. Why did the government indict this group of Black freedom fighters now? This Freedom Archives DVD documents the torture of several of the arrested activists—Bowman, Jones, and Taylor—at the hands of the New Orleans Police Department in 1973.
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DVD: Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case For Reasonable Doubt? This excellent and professional film contains new footage not included in the original 1996 HBO special. Journalist, writer, death-row inmate and political prisoner. From behind the walls, Mumia Abu-Jamal speaks for the first time in "Mumia: A case for reasonable doubt?"
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Soledad Brother the Prison Letters of George Jackson "The power of George Jackson's personal story remains painfully relevant to our nation today, with its persistent racism, its hellish prisons, its unjust judicial system, and the poles of wealth and poverty that are at the root of all of that. I hope the younger generation, black and white, will read Soledad Brother." - Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States
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Letters of Love & Hope: The Story of the Cuban Five Introduced by Alice Walker, with a preface by Cuban poet Nancy Morejon, this book includes excerpts from diaries, letters from and to children, wives and parents of the five Cubans imprisoned in the United States for "espionage," providing a glimpse of how ordinary families strive to maintain connections in extraordinary circumstances.
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State and Revolution by V. I. Lenin Are the cops our friends, with just a "few bad apples" or are they part of a system of repression to maintain the status quo? This book answers the question of "why we can't just all get along!"
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Live From Death Row by Mumia Abu-Jamal "They want me to die alone—silently." —Mumia Abu-JamalLive from Death Row is a collection of Mumia's prison writings—an impassioned yet unflinching account of the brutalities and humiliations of prison life. MORE INFO |
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All Things Censored by Mumia Abu-Jamal All Things Censored, is Mumia Abu-Jamal’s major release with more than 75 writings, many freshly composed by Mumia with the cartridge of a ball point pen — from his death row cell. Abu-Jamal writes on a host of topics. MORE INFO |
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Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising Four hundred seven prisoners took over a portion of a prison in Lucasville, Ohio, for 11 days in April 1993. Today, anti-death penalty activists in Ohio are still fighting to win justice for the "Lucasville 5." This is their story, a story of solidarity and pride.
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Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California "A magnificent analysis of the political economy of superincarceration and the slave plantations that California calls prisons." —Mike Davis author of City of Quartz and Dead Cities MORE INFO |
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Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur This intensely personal and political autobiography belies the fearsome image of JoAnne Chesimard, a.k.a. Assata Shakur, long projected by the media and the state. MORE INFO |
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We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party by Mumia Abu-Jamal Mumia Abu-Jamal provides the world with an important history of the founding of the Philadelphia Black Panther Party in his new book We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party.
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DVD: Framing an Execution - The Media and Mumia Abu-Jamal Danny Glover narrates this critique of the ABC 20/20 coverage of the case of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. DVD MORE INFO |
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DVD: Mission Against Terror A documentary by Bernie Dwyer & Roberto Ruiz Rebo This award-winning documentary tells the story of the "Cuban 5" who were imprisoned in the U.S. for trying to stop acts of terrorism against their homeland, Cuba. Show this film to your neighbors, friends, union, clubs and organizations. Free the Five! MORE INFO |
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Prison Writings: My Life is My Sun Dance by Leonard Peltier In this remarkable memoir, Leonard Peltier invites us into his world inside Leavenworth, where he had been wrongfully imprisoned for over twenty years. Invoking the Sun Dance, in which pain provides access to a transcendent reality, Peltier explores his own suffering and the insights it has borne him.
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Enemy Combatant by Moazzam Begg - softcover This is the first published account by a Guantánamo detainee of life inside the notorious prison. MORE INFO |