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Topic Prisons/Prisoners : 165 results | page 1 of 17 pages
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander
As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status—much like their grandparents befor...
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Social Anarchism - Howard Ehrlich (Editor)
Contemporary anarchist thought from the U.S.A. Serious writing: critical texts, verse and good graphics. Always a hefty review section. This is one of few (ir)regular anarchist publications still coming out in North America. I don't think there's been a bad issue yet.
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If It Was Easy, They Wouldn't Call It "Struggle" - Mark Barnsley
Mark Barnsley has been involved in the anarchist movement all his adult life—spending time fighting in Lebanon, editing The Sheffield Anarchist, supporting striking miners, confronting fascists, and spending ten years in prison. Held in twenty different maximum or high security prisons, and eighteen different segregation units, he has always taken the fight to the Enemy in jail. Released from pr...
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Fire To The Prisons - Fire to the Prisons Collective (Editor)
Fire to the Prisons is an insurrectionary anarchist quarterly focusing on anti-prison and prisoner support content, but also includes articles to inspire opposition to this cold world.
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Nabat Books Series—Complete Set - Jan Valtin, Bernard Goldstein, Jack Black, Francois Eugene Vidocq, James Carr, Ben Reitman, and Jim Tully
The "cult classics" of AK Press's publishing list, our Nabat Books series brings back forgotten memoirs by misfits, outsiders and rebels of all stripes. We hear from lots of readers who pick up one Nabat book and get so excited that they come back for the whole series. So you might as well save yourself some money and get them all now! Here are all seven books in the Nabat series (so far) , at almost $30 off...
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Resistance Is a Duty! And Other Essays by Comrades from Action Directe - Action Directe
3 essays from prisoners of the French armed struggle group - 'Short Collective Biography Of Action Directe Prisoners', 'Political Prisoners And The Question Of Revolutionary Violence' and 'Resistance Is A Duty!' - explaining the history, and giving some insight into the politics of this (originally) armed revolutionary organization in France.
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Certain Days: The 2010 Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar - Favianna Rodriguez (Contributor), Leonard Peltier (Contributor), Al Gedicks (Contributor), and David Gilbert (Contributor)
The 2010 calendar, featuring a theme of Indigenous Resistance, is now available for purchase! Check out amazing artwork and writings from Addameer, Al Geddicks, Alvaro Luna Hernandez, Angela Sterritt, David Gilbert, Favianna Rodriquez, Gord Hill, Ivan Sancho, Jacobo Silva Nogales, Jaggi Singh, Jesse Purcell, Jesus Barraza, Leonard Peltier, Martin Mantxo, Maya Rolbin-Ghanie, Nidal El Khairy, Oscar Lopez River...
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The Prison-Industrial Complex and the Global Economy - Eve Goldberg and Linda Evans
"Over 1.8 million people are currently behind bars in the United States. This represents the highest per capita incarceration rate in the history of the world. In 1995 alone, 150 new U.S. prisons were built and filled...the prison-industrial complex is rapidly becoming an essential component of the U.S. economy." The prison business in the U.S. is not based on locking up, punishing, or rehabilitating dangero...
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Dreaming of Baghdad - Haifa Zangana
In 1970s Iraq, the Ba'ath Party was at the height of its influence in the Middle East and popularity throughout the West. But a group of activists recognized the disastrous potential of the regime as its charismatic leader, Saddam Hussein, became more powerful. Haifa Zangana was among those resisters, a small group of whom were captured and imprisoned at Abu Ghraib.

From the distance of time and place...
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Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money From Mass Incarceration - Tara Herivel (Editor) and Paul Wright (Editor)
Locking up 2.3 million people isn't cheap. Each year federal, state, and local governments spend over $185 billion annually in tax dollars to ensure that one out of every 137 Americans is imprisoned. Prison Profiteers looks at the private prison companies, investment banks, churches, guard unions, medical corporations, and other industries and individuals that benefit from this country's experiment wi...
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