Author: Amnesty International USA.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Allegations of Mistreatment in Marion Prison, Illinois, U.S.A.
Author: Amnesty International USA.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Agents of Repression
Author: Ward ChurchillPublisher: South End Press
ISBN: 9780896086463
Category : Political persecution
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
For those wondering how Bill Clinton could pardon white-collar fugitive Marc Rich but not Native American leader Leonard Peltier, important clues can be found in this classic study of the FBI's COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program). Agents of Repression includes an incisive historical account of the FBI siege of Wounded Knee, and reveals the viciousness of COINTELPRO campaigns targeting the Black Liberation movement. The authors' new introduction examines the legacies of the Panthers and AIM, and shows how the FBI still presents a threat to those committed to fundamental social change. Ward Churchill is author of From a Native Son. Jim Vander Wall is co-author of The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States, with Ward Churchill.
Marion Penitentiary--1985
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of JusticePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prison discipline
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Seeking the Beloved Community
Author: Joy JamesPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438446349
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Written over the course of twenty years, the essays brought together here highlight and analyze tensions confronted by writers, scholars, activists, politicians, and political prisoners fighting racism and sexism. Focusing on the experiences of black women calling attention to and resisting social injustice, the astonishing scale of mass and politically driven imprisonment in the United States, and issues relating to government and civic powers in American democracy, Joy James gives voice to people and ideas persistently left outside mainstream progressive discourse—those advocating for the radical steps necessary to acknowledge and remedy structural injustice and violence, rather than merely reforming those existing structures.
Imprisoned Intellectuals
Author: Joy JamesPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 0585455082
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Prisons constitute one of the most controversial and contested sites in a democratic society. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the industrialized world, with over 2 million people in jails, prisons, and detention centers; with over three thousand on death row, it is also one of the few developed countries that continues to deploy the death penalty. International Human Rights Organizations such as Amnesty International have also noted the scores of political prisoners in U.S. detention. This anthology examines a class of intellectuals whose analyses of U.S. society, politics, culture, and social justice are rarely referenced in conventional political speech or academic discourse. Yet this body of outlawed 'public intellectuals' offers some of the most incisive analyses of our society and shared humanity. Here former and current U.S. political prisoners and activists-writers from the civil rights/black power, women's, gay/lesbian, American Indian, Puerto Rican Independence and anti-war movements share varying progressive critiques and theories on radical democracy and revolutionary struggle. This rarely-referenced 'resistance literature' reflects the growing public interest in incarceration sites, intellectual and political dissent for social justice, and the possibilities of democratic transformations. Such anthologies also spark new discussions and debates about 'reading'; for as Barbara Harlow notes: 'Reading prison writing must. . . demand a correspondingly activist counterapproach to that of passivity, aesthetic gratification, and the pleasures of consumption that are traditionally sanctioned by the academic disciplining of literature.'—Barbara Harlow [1] 1. Barbara Harlow, Barred: Women, Writing, and Political Detention (New England: Wesleyan University Press, 1992). Royalties are reserved for educational initiatives on human rights and U.S. incarceration.
Warfare in the American Homeland
Author: Joy JamesPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822339236
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
DIVA collection of writings by prisoners and scholars that documents the extension of the violence and the repression of the prison establishment into the larger society. /div
The United States Penitentiary, Marion, Illinois
Author: Sellers V. Warden, United States Penitentiary, Marion, Illinois
Author: The New Abolitionists
Author: Joy JamesPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 079148310X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
This collection of essays and interviews provides a frank look at the nature and purposes of prisons in the United States from the perspective of the prisoners. Written by Native American, African American, Latino, Asian, and European American prisoners, the book examines captivity and democracy, the racial "other," gender and violence, and the stigma of a suspect humanity. Contributors include those incarcerated for social and political acts, such as conscientious objection, antiwar activism, black liberation, and gang activities. Among those interviewed are Philip Berrigan, Marilyn Buck, Angela Y. Davis, George Jackson, and Laura Whitehorn.
All Too Familiar
Author: Dorothy Q. ThomasPublisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564321534
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Federal and State Law