A sweeping history of American prisons, showing how they have shaped the US from the founding to the present.The land of the free is the home of the prisoner. The United States today incarcerates nearly two million people, amounting to almost a quarter of the world’s prison population. America’s prisoners are overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately Black, serving sentences far longer than they would receive for similar crimes in most other countries. This is not...

The Struggle Within is an accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer about how mass imprisonment has been a tool of repression deployed against diverse left-wing social movements over the last fifty years. Berger examines some of the most dynamic social movements across half a century: black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, Native American sovereignty, Chicano radicalism, white antiracist and working-class mobilizations, pacifist and antinuclear campaigns, and earth liber...

**A new history of Black Liberation, told through the intertwined story of two grassroots organizers **The Black Power movement, often associated with its iconic spokesmen, derived much of its energy from the work of people whose stories have never been told. Stayed On Freedom brings into focus two unheralded Black Power activists who dedicated their lives to the fight for freedom.Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons fell in love while organizing tenants and workers...

Poppin' Fresh declares martial law-Che Guevara loses his good looks and throws the entire U.S. Left into disarray-Zombie terrorist anchor babies invade the Pentagon. You'll read all this and more in Snidelines: Talking Trash to Power, a startling collection of personal essays and political satire that offers a perverse moral clarity to an increasingly amoral world. Ace reporter Susie Day brings us fast-breaking faux news; pens heartrendingly squalid lesbian grand opera; and dispenses an ar...

Journalists John McCoy and Ethan Hoffman spent four months inside the walls of the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla in 1978, just as Washington, once a leader in prison reform, abandoned its focus on reform and rehabilitation and returned to cell time and punishment. It was a brutal transition.McCoy and Hoffman roamed the maximum-security compound almost at will, observing and befriending prisoners and guards. The result is a striking depiction of a community in which t...

Finally Got the News uncovers the hidden legacy of the radical Left of the 1970s, a decade when vibrant social movements challenged racism, imperialism, patriarchy, and capitalism. It combines written contributions from movement participants with original printed materials—from pamphlets to posters, flyers to newspapers—to tell this politically rich and little-known story.The dawn of the 1970s saw an absolute explosion of interest in revolutionary ideas and activism. Young...

Counter Gaslighting: A Small Manual of Counter-Manipulationby Dan CrownBook Description:Are you tired of feeling manipulated, confused, or undermined in your relationships or workplace? Counter Gaslighting: A Small Manual of Counter-Manipulation is a powerful guide for anyone looking to regain control, assert their reality, and break free from the toxic cycle of gaslighting.In this practical and concise manual, Dan Crown provides you with the essential tools and...

Civil Rights and Beyond examines the dynamic relationships between African American and Latino/a activists in the United States from the 1930s to the present day. Building on recent scholarship, this book pushes the timeframe for the study of interactions between blacks and a variety of Latino/a groups beyond the standard chronology of the civil rights era. As such, the book merges a host of community histories—each with their own distinct historical experiences and activisms—to e...

This book brings together documents from multiple radical movements in the recent United States from 1973 through 2001. These years are typically viewed as an era of neoliberalism, dominated by conservative retrenchment, the intensified programs of privatization and incarceration, dramatic cuts to social welfare, and the undermining of labor, antiracist, and feminist advances. Yet activists from the period proved tenacious in the face of upheaval, resourceful in creating new tactics, and d...

**A bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner offers a compelling case for the necessity of resistance in our turbulent times, and shows how rebellions—however quixotic or irrational they seem—are key to realizing a more ideal worldA San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller**In the face of modern conditions, revolution is inevitable. The social inequality, political stagnation, devastation of our environment by corporations, stripping away of our civil liberties, and ...

The New York Times bestselling journalist and leading conspiracy writer presents his latest findings on the truth behind the 9/11 terror attacks.The terror attacks of September 11, 2001 ushered the United States into an era of war across the Middle East and government surveillance at home. In The Terror Conspiracy Revisited, Jim Marrs updates his authoritative dissection of the official story of 9/11. This revised edition is packed with explosive m...

At a time when everyone is going green, most people are unaware that the FBI is using anti-terrorism resources to target environmentalists and animal rights activists. The courts are being used to push conventional boundaries of what constitutes "terrorism" and to hit nonviolent activists with disproportionate sentences. Some have faced terrorism charges for simply chalking slogans on the sidewalk.Like the Red Scare, this "Green Scare" is about fear and intimidation, using a word—"...