 This poetry CD was created across razor wire, prison bars and censored phone lines. It is a gathering of 27 poets/activists celebrating the work of Marilyn Buck, who has spent more than 20 years in US prisons for her anti-imperialist politics and actions. Marilyn recites from behind prison walls. Sonia Sanchez, Dennis Brutus, Genny Lim, devorah major, Carlos Quiles, Jean Stewart, Akwasi Evans, Uchechi Kalu, Mitsuye Amada and Chrystos read Marilyn's poetry and their own, mixed with music. Tributes from Amiri Baraka and Kwame Ture. 46 tracks. 70 minutes. Pure poetry in motion.  

Wild Poppies: A Poetry Jam Across Prison Walls - Poets And Musicians Honor Poet And Political Prisoner Marilyn Buck

Literature & Fiction

Buck, Marilyn et al

Dramas & Plays

Freedom Archives

  Mabel Williams, with her late husband Robert F Williams (author of Negroes With Guns), met with Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara and Mao Tse Tung to help internationalize support for the Black Liberation Movement. Kathleen Cleaver was Communications Secretary and the first woman Central Committee member of the Black Panther Party, also lived in exile, gathering worldwide support for the BBP. These two inspiring women of the 60s Black liberation struggle share their personal experiences - resisting the KKK and police repression, forced exile and their international experiences in Third World nations - And how their history relates to the struggle today. Moderated by Rachel Herzing of Critical Resistance, and introduced by Angela Davis  

Self Respect, Self Defense & Self Determination

CLEAVER Kathleen & WILLIAMS, Mabel

Charisse Shumate: Fighting for Our Lives

A complete transcript of the Self-Respect, Self-Defense, and Self-Determination audio CD documentary (released by AK Press Audio/Freedom Archives), including transcribed excerpts of Radio Free Dixie broadcasts. This fine volume also includes the complete reproduction of the pamphlet People with Strength, with detailed reportage oon the events in Monroe, North Carolina in the late 1950s and early 1960s, by legendary radical journalist Truman Nelson; several photographs; some historical/explanatory notes; and a Robert Williams poem! Enlightening, and inspiring!

Robert And Mabel Williams Resource Guide

History

Robert, Williams

Mabel Williams

Americas

Legacy of Torture: The War Against the Black Liberation Movement

The men held captive in the Marion control unit lived in an 8 x 10 foot cell for about 23 hours a day, seven days a week. There was no contact with other human beings. There was no way to know when it would end. Days, months, years would go by... Out of Control: A Fifteen-Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons tells the inspiring story of the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML). Founded in 1985 to organize against control unit prisons and related inhumane practices at the notorious federal prison in Marion, Illinois, the committee's work and influence spread nationwide, even as the practices at Marion became widespread in many other prisons in the U.S. and internationally. Written in a very accessible and eloquent style by Nancy Kurshan, a CEML co-founder and leading activist throughout its history, the book recounts how the committee led and organized hundreds of educational programs and demonstrations in many parts of the country and sought to build a national movement to expose and abolish 'end-of-the-line' prisons. Along the way the Committee wrote thousands of pages of educational and agitational literature, and developed new ways of analyzing and fighting against the 'prison industrial complex.'

Out of Control: A Fifteen-Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons

Politics & Social Sciences

Nancy Kurshan

Social Sciences

COINTELPRO 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the U.S. government in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. ""Cointelpro"" refers to the official FBI COunter INTELligence PROgram carried out to surveil, imprison, and eliminate leaders of social justice movements and to disrupt, divide, and destroy the movements as well. Many of the government's crimes are still unknown. Through interviews with activists who experienced these abuses first-hand and with rare historical footage, the film provides an educational introduction to a period of intense repression and draws relevant lessons for present and future movements. Interviews in the video include: Muhammad Ahmad,Bob Boyle, Kathleen Cleaver,Ward Churchill, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Priscilla Falcon, Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt, Jose Lopez, Francisco 'Kiko' Martinez, Lucy Rodriguez, Ricardo Romero, Akinyele Umoja, and Laura Whitehorn.

COINTELPRO 101

This illuminating film explores student activism, the effect of police repression, and how issues of identity, land, and community still resonate in the Chicano struggles of today. Through interviews and rare footage, Symbols of Resistances offers a window into a dynamic moment in history and movement building. Interviews include prominent Chicana leader Priscilla Falcón, lawyer Francisco “Kiko” Martínez, organizer Ricardo Romero, former director of El Pueblo History Museum Deborah Espinosa, and veteran reporter Juan Espinosa. Closed captions and with Spanish subtitles.

Symbols of Resistance: A Tribute to the Martyrs of the Chicano Movement

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