Setting sights : histories and reflections on community armed self-defense / edited by Scott Crow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crow, Scott J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government, Resistance to.

Firearms.

Self-defense.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : PM, 2018.

Summary:

"This wide-ranging anthology uncovers the hidden histories of community armed self-defense, exploring how it has been used by marginalized and oppressed communities as well as anarchists and radicals within significant social movements of the 20th and 21st centuries. Far from a call to arms, or a "how-to" manual for warfare, this volume offers histories, reflections, and questions about the role of firearms in small collective defense efforts and its place in larger efforts toward the creation of autonomy and liberation. Featuring diverse perspectives from movements across the globe, Setting Sights includes vivid histories and personal reflections from both researchers and those who participated in community armed self-defense. Contributors include Dennis Banks, Kathleen Cleaver, Mable Williams, Subcomandante Marcos, Kristian Williams, George Ciccariello-Maher, Ashanti Alston, and many more."--Amazon.com.

"Decades ago, Malcolm X eloquently stated that communities have the legitimate right to defend themselves "by any means necessary" with any tool or tactic, including guns. This wide-ranging anthology uncovers the hidden histories and ideas of community armed self-defense, exploring how it has been used by marginalized and oppressed communities as well as anarchists and radicals within significant social movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Far from a call to arms, or a "how-to" manual for warfare, this volume offers histories, reflections, and questions about the role of firearms in small collective defense efforts and its place in larger efforts toward the creation of autonomy and liberation. Featuring diverse perspectives from movements across the globe, Setting Sights includes vivid histories and personal reflections from both researchers and those who participated in community armed self-defense. Contributors include Dennis Banks, Kathleen Cleaver, Mable Williams, Subcomandante Marcos, Kristian Williams, George Ciccariello-Maher, Ashanti Alston, and many more." -- Publisher's description

Contents:

Analysis and theory. Liberatory community armed self-defense : approaches toward a theory / Scott Crow

Politicians love gun control : reframing the debate around gun ownership / Neal Shirley/North Carolina Piece Corps

Gun rights are civil rights / Kristian Williams and Peter Little

Notes for a critical theory of community self-defense / Chad Kautzer

Three-way fight : revolutionary anti-fascism and armed self-defense / J. Clark

The liberation gun : symbolic aspects of the Black Panther Party / Ashanti Alston

Desire armed : an introduction to armed resistance and revolution / Western Unit Tactical Defense Caucus

Mischievous elves : defending a broader concept of the self / Leslie James Pickering

Antagonistic violence : approaches to the armed struggle in urban environments from an anarchist perspective / Gustavo Rodríguez

Ten ways to advance liberatory community armed self-defense / North Carolina Piece Corps.

Histories of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Russian Anarchists and the Civil War, 1917-1922 / Paul Avrich

Not only a right but a duty : the industrial workers of the world take up the gun in Centralia, Washington, 1919 / Shawn Stevenson

The people armed : women in the 1930s Spanish Revolution / Anti-Fascist Action UK

Schwarze Scharen : anarcho-syndicalist militias in Germany, 1929-1933 / Helge Döhring and Gabriel Kuhn

Other stories from the civil rights movement : a spectrum of community defense / Lamont Carter and Scott Crow

Negroes with guns : oral history interview with Mabel Williams / David Cecelski

Self-respect, self-defense, and self-determination : a presentation / Kathleen Cleaver and Mabel Williams ; with an introduction by Angela Y. Davis

Repression breeds resistance : the Black Liberation Army and the radical legacy of the Black Panther Party / Akinyele Omowale Umoja

Drifting from the mainstream : a chronicle of early anti-rape organizing and WASP / Nikki Craft

Oka Crisis of 1990 : indigenous armed self-defense and organization in Canada / Gord Hill

We refuse to die : an interview with Dennis Banks / Scott Crow

Ampo Camp and the American Indian Movement : native resistance in the U.S. Pacific Northwest / Michele Rene Weston

Mujeres en acción : indigenous women activism within the EZLN / Laura Gallery

Twelve women in the twelfth year : January 1994 / Subcomandante Marcos

On violence, disasters, defense, and transformation : setting sights for the future / Scott Crow

t Gut check time : violence and resistance after Hurricane Katrina / Suncere Shakur

Breaking the curse of forgotten places in Mexico / Simón Sedillo

Feminism, guns, and anarchy in the twenty-first century : a southern U.S. story / Mo Karnage

Defending communities, demanding autonomy : self-defense militias in Venezuela's barrios / George Ciccariello-Maher

Toward a Redneck Revolt / Dave Strano

Defense in Dallas in the twenty-first century : an interview with members of the Huey P. Newton Gun Club / interview by Scott Crow

Trial by fire : democracy and self-defense in Rojava / Alexander Reid Ross and Ian LaVallee.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62963-466-2