Losing has never been an option to me. What has happened to me can easily happen to any poor person. Zolo Agona Azania, 2005 Who is Zolo Agona Azania? by Owusu Yaki Yakubu The imprisonment rate for African-American people in the U.S. is six times higher than for white people. …
Since David Gilbert has rightfully started off a re-evaluation of the entire question of the white working class, i would like to throw a few points into the discussion. First off, i think the value of Looking At The White Working Class Historically is in what it attempts. Examining a …
Sanford’s son Rick Wormwood The Portland Phoenix, Dec. 17th-23rd, 2004 Activist Raymond Luc Levasseur has been labeled a terrorist by some, a martyr and hero by others. Back in Portland after 20 years in federal prison, he’s not about to drift quietly into history. Raymond Luc Levasseur is the second …
A Political Prisoner’s Journey in the U.S. Prison System By A. Jalil Bottom, (2005) After the illegal NYC Newkill conviction of killing two police officers in 1975, I was transferred back to San Quentin prison in California to complete the sentence for which I was originally captured on August 28, …
Exiled in Havana Brett Sokol Miami New Times September 7, 2000 With the FBI in pursuit, black activist Nehanda Abiodun a decade ago fled to Cuba, where she still dreams of fomenting a socialist revolution in the United States Even a casual observer in Havana would notice the striking disconnect …
Kuwasi. Now he’s gone. And its like his last loving joke on me, his last gentle bursting of my egotistic bubble. Because i was all ready for a long, lingering heroic battle against disease and death. Ultimately lost, but great tragic courage and sharing. And he did it his way. …
THERE ARE CATS, AND THERE ARE CATS… THERE IS KUWASI BALAGOON In the name of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful… Kuwasi Balagoon is dead. “Surely we are Allah’ and to Him we surely return.” The Quran tells us each soul shall have a taste of death and all too often …
Abu Ghraib and the Logic of Conquest by David Gilbert, 16-7-04 The lies to justify the war on Iraq couldn’t be more threadbare:Â there are no weapons of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein did not collaborate with al-Quaeda on the 9/11 attacks (in fact, there was considerable hostility because of Osama …
The warm reception for my book is most welcome. I hope the title hasn’t caused any misunderstanding. No Surrender comes from the Nazim Hikmet poem about prison, which opens the book, on never giving up one’s principles, spirit, and zest for life. I did not at all mean to refer …
In Memory of Kuwasi Balagoon David Gilbert, December 15th 1986 available from leftwingbooks.net When i think of Kuwasi i think of the word “heart”. No, i got that backwards. When the term “heart” comes up i think of Kuwasi because he epitomized it so beautifully – but of course he …