Let freedom ring : a collection of documents from the movements to free U.S. political prisoners / foreword by Adolfo Perez Esquivel ; afterwords by Lynne Stewart and Ashanti Omowali Alston ; edited by Matt Meyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meyer, Matt.

Series:

PM Press

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political prisoners--United States--History--20th century--Sources.

Political prisoners.

Political prisoners--United States--History--21st century--Sources.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century--Sources.

Civil rights movements.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--21st century--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (912 p.)

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : Kersplebedeb ; Oakland, CA : PM Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Let Freedom Ring presents a two-decade sweep of essays, analyses, histories, interviews, resolutions, People's Tribunal verdicts, and poems by and about the scores of U.S. political prisoners and the campaigns to safeguard their rights and secure their freedom. In addition to an extensive section on the campaign to free death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, represented here are the radical movements that have most challenged the U.S. empire from within: Black Panthers and other Black liberation fighters, Puerto Rican independentistas, Indigenous sovereignty activists, white anti-imperialist

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments: Matt Meyer; Foreword: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel; Let Freedom Ring: An Introduction Matt Meyer; Gearing Up: A Guide to This Collection Matt Meyer; The Real Dragons: A Brief History of Political Militancy and Incarceration: 1960's to 2000's Dan Berger, 2008; Section I Putting Political Prisoners on the Map; Section II Int'l Tribunal on Political Prisoners/P.O.W.'s in the U.S.A.; Section III The Quincentenary: Diss'ing the "Discovery"; Section IV Campaigning to End Colonialism in Puerto Rico; Section V Resisting Repression: Out and Proud

Section VI Pulling Out the Stops to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Section VII John Brown and Beyond; Section VIII Critical Resistance and the Prisoner Rights Movement 573; Section IX At War: The U.S. Government's Illegal and Ongoing War Against the Black Liberation Movement 603; Section X The Struggle Continues; Afterword- Lynne Stewart; After the Afterword- Ashanti Omowali Alston; Contributor Profiles; Political Prisoner Support Organizations; Index; Recommended from PM Press; About PM Press

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-60486-148-7

1-60486-147-9

OCLC:

435638256