Hauling Up the Morning
Hauling Up The Morning / Izando la manana
writings and art by political prisoners and prisoners of war
edited by Tim Blunk, Raymond Luc Levasseur and the editors of Javobin Books
introduction by Assata Shakur, prefaratory note by William Kunstler
Chapter 1: Hard Time
- Dalou Asahi – The Bangs in Prison
- Kuwasi Balagoon – Why Isn’t the Whole World Dancing?
- Laura Whitehorn
- Bill Dunne – sliding into shadow
- Sekou Cinque T. M. Kambui – Freedom
- Katya Komisaruk – Visitor – “After 7 o<clock tonight females may use the yard until 9 p.m.” – They Are Searching
- Oscar Lopez-Rivera – El Caido de la Gracia del Todopoderoso Senor Dolar
- Standing Deer – Rehabilitation Marion Style
Chapter 2: Roots in the People
- Salvador Agron – The Political Identity of Salvador Agron
- James Doherty – Death in the Raion – Walls of Silence
- Marilyn Buck – To Women who Work – Remembering a 15-year-old Palestinian Woman – In Celebration of the Intifadah
- Pat Gros-Levasseur – On getting organized in Cuyahoga County Jail – for Carol Saucier Manning – Been Thinking – Lacemakers – From these deprived walls
- Imam Hakim – My Pledge for the New Year – We Will Survive
- Jamal Josephs – No Distance at All
- Carlos Alberto Torres – Graciela Esperanza
- Kazi Toure – Like a Rock – Life Styles of the Rich and Famous
- Jaan Lamaan – From a Statement in Court
Chapter 3: Love and Other Mysteries
- Alan Berkman – A Modest Supposal
- Ray Luc Levasseur – mémêre (grandmother) – Bro & I
- Judy Clark – Portrait – New Year’s Poem – Sister Says
- Edwin Cortes – A Soldier of the Motherland – Un Soldado de la Patria – The Charade – La Charada – Confidence in My People – Confianza in mi Pueblo – Struggle in Order to Live – Luchar para Vivir
- Vincent Kay – Letter in September
- Barbara Curzi-Lamaan – For Susan – Winning Battle – Look at Our Beautiful Sister – For My Parents – For My Children – For My Sisters
- Alberto Rodriguez – El Companero Combatiente (in English)
- Paul Magno – Advent for Prisoners – A Touch of Hunger – ACTS 19: A Contemporary Account – May Day Observations from Jail
Chapter 4: Teach the Children
- David Gilbert – The Vortex
- Wadiyah Jamal – A Living Nightmare
- Sarah Berkman-Zeller – The Visit
- Carmen Levasseur – Poem for Mom
- Dylcia Pagan – The Littlest Warrior
- Kathy Boudin – The Amazing Story of the Bog Man
- Atiba Shanna – From One Generation to the Next
- Ethel Rosenberg – If We Die
- Alan Berkman – Teach the Children
Chapter 5: Ideas Are Weapons
- Hakim Al-Jamil – who killed mcduffie? (a definitive question) (available on this website)
- John Africa – On the Move
- Terry Bisson – RSVP to the FBI
- Herman Ferguson – Excerpts from a Letter
- Russ Ford – Declaration of a Draft Registration Resister
- Bashir Hameed – The Struggle is Jihaad
- Alicia Rodriguez – Patriarchy – Continuum – Paloma Borincana
- Kuwasi Balagoon – Your Honor (available on this website) – With No Question
Chapter 6: Dreams are Struggle Too
- Laura Whitehorn – Claustrophobia – The Enemy – Sisterhood is Powerful – Baltimore City Jail, August, 1985
- Hanif Shabazz Bey – The Throwing of Stones
- Tim Blunk – for comrades who ask, “what ois to be done?” – liberated territory
- Kojo Bomani Sababu – New Afrika
- Linda Evans – Vigilancia para el Pueblo (art work)
- Susan Rosenberg – Puerto Rico, a Fantasy Dream
- April/Spring/Hungerstrike
- Sparks Fly
- Of Poems
- Albert Nuh Washington – Smile – Faith – Liusten – BLA – By Way of Introduction – That Which is Shared – Nelson ‘n’ Winnie – Spiderman – If I could
- Liz Davidson – Prison Visit – Deeper Waters – Elephant
- Sekou Odinga – Why Struggle?
- Elizam Escobar – from “The Other Dreamer” – de “el otro suenista” – from “Nietzschean Poems” – de “poemas nietzscheanos” – Yo me muero a veces – Sometimes I Die
- Obafemi Senghor – Apocalyptic Children
Chapter 7: Remember the Fighters
- Prince Cuba – Universal struggle
- Mumia Abu-Jamal – Things Go Round – Sister Mona Africa
- Jonathan Blunk – A Letter to my Brother in Prison
- Mtayari Shabaka Sundiata – By Choice You Are Assata
- Larry Giddings – Roque, Federico and Victor – Ricardo Flores Magon -Rock – No Borders
- David Gilbert – Born on Sunday
- Shaheem Malik Jabbar – Poem to Mtayari
- Richard Williams – Mairead, St. Patrick’s Day, 1988 – The Sea – Again
- Mike McCoy – A Vision
- Thomas Manning – Linda Evans – South Africa will Be Free! (artwork) – (note scrawled on a leaflet sent outside)
- Chim Trang – From “The Rising Song”
available from leftwingbooks.net
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