Jericho Suggested Readings

Prepared by: Ashanti Omowali Alston and Adam Carpinelli

Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War

Abu-Jamal, Mumia. Live from Death Row. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co, 1995.

Abu-Jamal, Mumia. Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience. Farmington, PA, USA: Plough Pub. House, 1997.

Abu-Jamal, Mumia, and Noelle Hanrahan. All Things Censored. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001.

Abu-Jamal, Mumia. We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party. Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press, 2004.

Abu-Jamal, Mumia. Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners V. the U.S.A. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2009.

Amnesty International. The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Life in the Balance. The open pamphlet media series. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2000.

Anderson, S. E., Tony Medina, and Patricia A. Allen. In Defense of Mumia. New York: Writers and Readers Pub, 1996.

Ayers, William. Fugitive Days: A Memoir. Boston, Mass: Beacon Press, 2001.

Berry, Mary Frances, and Sharon Washington. My Face Is Black Is True [Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations]. Griot audio. Prince Frederick, Md: Recorded Books, 2006.

Balagoon, Kuwasi. A Soldier’s Story: Writings by a Revolutionary New Afrikan Anarchist. Montreal, Quebec: Solidarity, 2001.

Berger, Dan. Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2006.

Bisson, Terry. On a Move: The Story of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Litmus Books, 2000.

Bukhari, Safiya, and Laura Whitehorn. The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison & Fighting for Those Left Behind. New York City: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2010.

Carmichael, Stokely, and Mumia Abu-Jamal. Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism. Chicago, Ill: Lawrence Hill Books, 2007.

Carmichael, Stokely, and Michael Thelwell. Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture). New York: Scribner, 2003.

Carr, James, Dan Hammer, and Isaac Cronin. BAD: The Autobiography of James Carr. New York, N.Y.: Carroll & Graf, 1994.

Cleaver, Kathleen, and George N. Katsiaficas. Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party: A New Look at the Panthers and Their Legacy. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Committee to free the SF-8. [Publications Relating to Committee to Free the SF-8]. New York, N.Y.: Committee to free the SF-8, 2007.

Friends of the New York Three. Prisoners of War: The Case of the New York Three. New York, N.Y.: Friends of the New York Three, 1981.

Gaucher, Robert. Writing as Resistance: The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons Anthology (1988-2002). Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2002.

George Jackson Brigade. The Power of the People Is the Force of Life: Political Statement of the George Jackson Brigade. Montreal: Abraham Guillen Press, 2002.

Gilbert, David, Sundiata Acoli, and Marilyn Buck. No Surrender: Writings from an Anti-Imperialist Political Prisoner. Montréal: Abraham Guillen Press, 2004.

Goodell, Charles E. Political Prisoners in America. New York: Random House, 1973.

Hansen, Ann. Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla. Edinburgh: AK, 2002.

Hoffman, Anita, and Abbie Hoffman. To America with Love: Letters from the Underground. New York: Stonehill Pub. Co, 1976.

Jacobs, Ron. The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground. London: Verso, 1997.

Jackson, George. Blood in My Eye. New York: Random House, 1972.

Jackson, George. Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson. New York: Coward- McCann, 1970.

James, Joy. Imprisoned Intellectuals: America’s Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion. Transformative politics series. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.

King, Robert Hillary. From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2009.

Law, Vikki. Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2009.

Lindorff, Dave. Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Monroe, Me: Common Courage Press, 2003.

Mandela, Winnie, Anne Benjamin, and Mary Benson. Part of My Soul Went with Him. New York: Norton, 1985.

Meyer, Matt. Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners. Montreal, Quebec: Kersplebedeb, 2008.

National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War. Can’t Jail the Spirit: Political Prisoners in the U.S.: A Collection of Biographies. Chicago, IL: Editorial El Coquí, 1988.

N’Zinga, Shaka, and Robin D. G. Kelley. A Disjointed Search for the Will to Live. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Soft Skull, 2003.

Oglesby, Carl. Ravens in the Storm: A Personal History of the 1960s Antiwar Movement. New York: Scribner, 2008.

Rosebraugh, Craig, and Jalil Muntaqim. This Country Must Change: Essays on the Necessity of Revolution in the USA. Arissa Media Group, 2009.

Rodriguez, Dylan. Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.

Saro-Wiwa, Ken, and William Boyd. A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin Books, 1995.

Shakur, Assata. Assata: An Autobiography. Westport, Conn: L. Hill, 1987.

Washington, Albert Nuh. All Power to the People. Toronto: Arm the Spirit, 2002.

Weather Underground Organization. Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism: the Political Statement of the Weather Underground. [San Francisco]: Communications Co, 1974.

Weinglass, Leonard. Race for Justice: Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Fight against the Death Penalty. Monroe, Me: Common Courage Press, 1995.

Wilkerson, Cathy. Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2007. Williams, Daniel R. Executing Justice: An Inside Account of the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001.

Prison Abolition, Police

and Political Repression

Ahrens, Lois. The Real Cost of Prisons Comix. Oakland, Calif: PM Press, 2008.

Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: New Press, 2010.

Ayers, William. Fugitive Days: A Memoir. Boston, Mass: Beacon Press, 2001.

Berry, Mary Frances, and Sharon Washington. My Face Is Black Is True [Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations]. Griot audio. Prince Frederick, Md: Recorded Books, 2006.

Black Powder Press. COINTELPRO: The Danger We Face. Sacramento, CA: Black Powder Press, 2005.

Blackstock, Nelson. COINTELPRO: The FBI’s Secret War on Political Freedom. New York: Anchor Foundation, 1988.

Burton-Rose, Daniel. GUERRILLA USA: The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Under-ground of the 1970s. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2010.

Burton-Rose, Daniel. Creating a Movement with Teeth: A documentary History of the GJB. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2010.

Carr, James, Dan Hammer, and Isaac Cronin. BAD: The Autobiography of James Carr. New York, N.Y.: Carroll & Graf, 1994.

Center for Research on Criminal Justice (Berkeley, Calif.). The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove: An Analysis of the U.S. Police. Berkeley, Calif: Center for Research on Criminal Justice, 1977.

Chinosole. Schooling the Generations in the Politics of Prison. [S.l.]: Afrikan/Black Prison Education Fund, 1997.

Churchill, Ward. 2003. “II INTERNATION­ALISTS AND ANTI-IMPERIALISTS - Agents of Repression: Withstanding the Test of Time”. Social Justice: a Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order. 30, no 2: 44

Churchill, Ward, and Jim Vander Wall. Cages of Steel: The Politics of Imprisonment in the United States. Washington, D.C.: Maisonneuve Press, 1992.

Churchill, Ward, and Jim Vander Wall. The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI’s Secret Wars against Domestic Dissent. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1990.

Churchill, Ward, and Jim Vander Wall. Agents of Repression: The FBI’s Secret Wars against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1988.

 

Cleaver, Kathleen, and George N. Katsiaficas. Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party: A New Look at the Panthers and Their Legacy. New York: Routledge, 2001.

CR10 Publications Collective. Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle against the Prison Industrial Complex. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2008.

Cunningham, David. There’s Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, and FBI Counterintelligence. The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Cummins, Eric. The Rise and Fall of California’s Radical Prison Movement. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1994.

Davenport, Christian. 2005. “Understanding Covert Repressive Action”. Journal of Conflict Resolution. 49, no. 1: 120-140.

Davis, Angela. Are Prisons Obsolete? New York: Seven Stories Press, 2003.

Davis, Angela. Abolition Democracy Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005.

Davis, Angela Y. If They Come in the Morning; Voices of Resistance. New York: Third Press, 1971.

Drabble, J. 2007. “From White Supremacy to White Power: the FBI, COINTELPRO — White Hate, and the Nazification of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s”. American Studies. 48, no. 3: 49- 74.

Drabble, John. 2004. “To Ensure Domestic Tranquility: The FBI, COINTELPRO-WHITE HATE and Political Discourse, 1964-1971”. Journal of American Studies. 38, no. 2: 297- 328.

Gaither, L.V. Loss of Empire: Legal Lynching, Vigilantism, and African American Intellectualism in the 21st-Century. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2006.

Gaucher, Robert. Writing as Resistance: The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons Anthology (1988-2002). Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2002.

George Jackson Brigade. The Power of the People Is the Force of Life: Political Statement of the George Jackson Brigade. Montreal: Abraham Guillen Press, 2002.

Gelderloos, Peter. How Nonviolence Protects the State. Cambridge, Mass: South End Press, 2007.

Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California. American Crossroads, 21. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

Glick, Brian. War at Home: Covert Action against U.S. Activists and What We Can Do About It. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1989.

Haas, Jeffrey. The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther. Chicago, Ill: Lawrence Hill Books/Chicago Review Press, 2010.

Horne, Gerald. Black Liberation/Red Scare: Ben Davis and the Communist Party. Newark, Del: University of Delaware Press, 1994.

James, Joy. Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.

James, Joy. The New Abolitionists: (Neo) Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings. SUNY series, philosophy and race. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005.

James, Joy. Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in U.S. Culture. Minneapolis, Minn: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Jeffries, J.L. Black Power in the Belly of the Beast. Urbana: University of Illinois, 2006.

Kessler, Ronald. The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002.

King, Robert Hillary. From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2009.

Knopp, Fay Honey, Barbara Boward, and Mark O. Morris. Instead of Prisons: A Handbook for Abolitionists. Syracuse, N.Y.: Prison Research Education Action Project, 1976.

Kunstler, William M., Michael Steven Smith, Karin Kunstler Goldman, and Sarah Kunstler. The Emerging Police State: Resisting Illegitimate Authority. Melbourne: Ocean Press, 2004.

Law, Vikki. Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2009.

Newton, Michael. The FBI and the KKK: A Critical History. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co, 2005.

Parenti, Christian. Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis. London: Verso, 2000.

Prison Research Education Action Project. Instead of Prisons: A Handbook for Abolitionists. Oakland, CA: Critical Resistance, 2005.

Redden, Jim. Snitch Culture: How Citizens Are Turned into the Eyes and Ears of the State. Venice, Calif: Feral House, 2000.

Sudbury, Julia. Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex. New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2005.

Sudbury, Julia. 2009. “Maroon Abolitionists: Black Gender-Oppressed Activists in the Anti- Prison Movement in the U.S. and Canada”. Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. 9, no. 1: 1-29.

United States. COINTELPRO The Counterintelligence Program of the FBI. Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources, 1978.

Viehmann, Klaus, Gabriel Kuhn, and Bill Dunne. Prison Round Trip. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2009.

Williams, Evelyn. Inadmissible Evidence: The Story of the African-American Trial Lawyer Who Defended the Black Liberation Army. Chicago, Ill: Lawrence Hill Books, 1993.

Wideman, John Edgar. Philadelphia Fire: A Novel. New York: Holt, 1990.

Indigenous/Native American Struggles

M. Annette Jaimes, Delinda Wunder (Foreword by) The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance. South End Press, Boston, 1992

Messerschmidt, James W. The Trial of Leonard Peltier. Boston: South End Press, 1983.

Peltier, Leonard, and Harvey Arden. Prison Writings: My Life is My Sundance. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

Black/New African Liberation Struggles

Bin Wahad, Dhoruba, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Assata Shakur, Jim Fletcher, Tanaquil Jones, and Sylvère Lotringer. Still Black, Still Strong: Survivors of the U.S. War against Black Revolutionaries. Semiotext(e) active agents series. New York: Semiotext(e), 1993.

 

Civil Rights Congress (U.S.). We Charge Genocide: The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief from a Crime of the United States Government against the Negro People. New York: International Publishers, 1970.

Kornweibel, Theodore. Seeing Red: Federal Campaigns against Black Militancy, 1919-1925. Blacks in the Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.

Muntaqim, Jalil. On the Black Liberation Army. Montreal: Abraham Guillen Press & Arm the Spirit, 2002.

Muntaqim, Jalil A. We Are Our Own Liberators Selected Prison Writings. Arissa Media Group, 2009.

Nobo Journal of Africanamerican Dialogue #1: Black Prison Movements USA: The Nobo Journal of Africanamerican Dialogue, Network Of Black Org, Africa World Press.

Williams, Robert F., and Marc Schleifer. Negroes with Guns. Chicago: Third World Press, 1973.

Animal and Earth Liberation Struggles

Best, Steven, and Anthony J. Nocella. Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2006.

Pickering, Leslie James. The Earth Liberation Front 1997-2002. Portland, Or.: Arissa Media Group,2007

Islamic Struggle

Al-Amin, Jalil.(H. Rap Brown) Die Nigger Die! Chicago, Il: Lawrence Hill Books, 1969

Al-Amin, Jamil. Revolution by the Book: (the Rap Is Live). Beltsville, Md: Writers’ Inc.-International, 1993.

Asian Struggle

Fujino, Diane Carol. Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama. Critical American studies series. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.

Ho, Fred Wei-han, and Carolyn Antonio. Legacy to Liberation: Politics & Culture of Revolutionary Asian Pacific America. Edinburgh: AK, 2000.

Puerto Rican Independence Struggle

Campos, Pedro Albizu. Writings of Pedro Albizu Compos: Gordon Press Publishers, 1993

Hawaii Independence Struggle

Churchill, Ward (Editor) and Sharon H. Venne (Editor); Lilikala Kame’eleihiwa (Hawaiian language editor). Island In Captivity. Boston, South End Press, 2005

Struggle in the Philippines

We work in solidarity with Filipino women political prisoner workers in New York.

Struggle of the Basque

Kurlansky, Mark. Basque History of the World. Knopf, 1999

The War Against Immigrants

Potential allies here in the u.s. whom we rarely speak out for. Mass and racist incarceration victims along with many of our own targeted communities.

The LGBTIQQAA Struggle

People of different lifestyles, sexualities need to be defended and Jericho should not be afraid to do so, regardless of what we may feel as individuals (i.e. our own differences, sexisms and homophobias).

The Struggle Against Forgetting/Remembering

We need to understand more about how historical trauma/amnesia, intergenerational trauma from anti-colonial perspectives can help us see more clearly communities’ pathologic allegiance to The Empire & White Supremacy & the amerikan flag waving hysteria. Why are we our own worst enemies? Different readings

 

from folks who have been putting a lot of thought into it. How can we incorporate new thinkings into our outreach and organizing?

Organizing and Being Proactive

We need to read up on new ways that people are organizing and fighting back instead of pretty much doing the same ole same ole of the last 40 years.