Love and struggle : my life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and beyond / David Gilbert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilbert, David, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political activists--United States--Biography.

Political activists.

Gilbert, David, 1944-.

Gilbert, David.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, Calif. : PM Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Written from the maximum-security prison where he has lived for almost 30 years, this enlightening memoir chronicles the militant career of David Gilbert, a radical activist whose incarceration is due to his involvement in the 1981 Brinks robbery, an attempted expropriation that resulted in four deaths. From his entry into the world of political activism as the founder of Students for a Democratic Society at Columbia University to his departure from public life in order to help build the clandestine resistance to war and racism known as the Weathermen, Gilbert relates all of...

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; An Appreciation by Boots Riley; INTRODUCTION; BEGINNINGS; Missing the Wink; Illusions Replaced by a Dream; THE 1960's AND THE MAKING; Columbia and the Black Struggle; Assault on a Black-Jewish Alliance; Black Education; Black Power; Internationalism; Vietnam; National SDS; Local Action; "Hey, Hey, LBJ, How Many 45 Kids Did You Kill Today?"; Strike! 46; Women: Relationships; Women: Politics; Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll; Political Theory; The Weapon of Theory; Revolutionary Youth Movement; COINTELPRO; From Protest to Resistance; Equal Rights and Unequal Power

First Bust Affinity Groups; Foco; Revolution in Our Lifetime?; Making Choices; Sectarianism; A Seismic Fault Line; The Split of SDS; THE MOST SANE/INSANE OF TIMES; Criticism/Self-Criticism; Breaking and Brawling; Fighting in the Streets; Rocky Mountain High; On a Life Trip; The Panthers in Denver; County Jail; War Council; The Townhouse; UNDERGROUND; Weather Declares War; High on Youth Culture; New Morning; Encirclement; Clandestinity; Regrouping; Action; Status and Hierarchy; Democratic Centralism; The Doldrums; Kathy Boudin; Prairie Fire; Organization Man; Hard Times; Things Fall Apart

Alone A MILE HIGH: ABOVEGROUND IN DENVER; Back to Brookline; Rebuilding My Life in Denver; Adams Street; Men Against Sexism; El Comité; Iran; My Two Worlds Collide; Sexist Dog of the Century; BACK UNDER; Socialism?; Dancing Feet; Back Above, the Hard Way; BUSTED; Trial by Trial; Isolation; Climbing Mountains; The Rock Is a Hard Place; Daily Life; Facing Life; Heading up the River; AFTERWORD; Five Pages on Twenty-Eight Years; GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781604866865

1604866861

9781604866872

160486687X

9781604866841

1604866845

OCLC:

773565385