[This interview is mirrored from Black Agenda Report, where it was originally posted on June 8, 2022. Akineyele’s article and other writings by and about Kuwasi can be found in A Soldier’s Story: Writings by a Revolutionary New Afrikan Anarchist.] BAR Book Forum: Interview with Akinyele Umoja Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book …
Kuwasi Balagoon was a participant in the Black Liberation struggle from the 1960s until his death in prison in 1986. A member of the Black Panther Party and defendant in the infamous Panther 21 case, Balagoon went underground with the Black Liberation Army (BLA). Captured and convicted of various crimes …
Many years ago, when working on what was originally envisaged as a pamphlet, a short collection of writings by Kuwasi Balagoon, i was told of a television interview with Balagoon, conducted while he was incarcerated following the failed Brinks expropriation of 1981. These were in the days before youtube or …
The following appeared in the Prison Letters section of Overthrow Volume 6 #4 , December 1984/January 1985 — it was scanned by as part of the Arm the Spirit archive project (thanks!) Back in – on or about 1971, after the jail house rock rebellion in N.Y.C. where every house …
On December 16, 2006 over 75 people gathered at LAVA in West Philadelphia. The crowd was a mix of Black liberation movement veterans (young and old), anarchist punks and white queer activists from ACT UP. They came together to pay homage to the late Kuwasi Balagoon, who would have turned …