The Reviews Issue:
Radical Lives
Volume: 29
Number: 4
Most WIN readers probably believe that true change happens through collective action. As part of the vague grouping we call “the Left,” we place our faith in movements, not leaders – actions, not symbols. Nonetheless, there are on occasion some individuals who so capture the spirit of revolution that they become luminaries for entire…
Doing Time for Peace:Resistance, Family, and CommunityEdited by Rosalie G. Riegle2012, Vanderbilt University Press,408 pages, $29.95 paperback This is oral history at its most inspiring, stories of people who have willingly gone to prison for declaring war on war, told in their own words and in the words of their partners, their children, and the…
1000S GATHER IN GEORGIA TO PROTEST SCHOOL Of THE AMERICAS School of the Americas (SOA) Watch is an independent organization that for the past 22 years has struggled to close the US Army School of the Americas through vigils and fasts, demonstrations and nonviolent protest, as well as media and legislative work. From November 16-18…
SUPERSTORM SANDY The War Resisters League has endorsed the Hurricane Sandy statement written by Movement Generation and reproduced in part below. The full statement can be found online at MovementGeneration.org We, community-based organizations and movements across the U.S. who are working for a Just Transition out of the climate crisis, stand in solidarity with the…
Field organizer Ali issa visited the “People’s University” — a project of Occupy Hartford in Connecticut — to lead a discussion on the ongoing Egyptian Revolution and how it relates to local struggles. That day was especially fitting to focus on Egypt since it was in the midst of one of the largest doctors’ strikes…
Mumia’s Journey Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia-Abu Jamal Directed by Stephen Vittoria Opens February 1, 2013 First Run Features, 120 minutes Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal is a compelling documentary about a riveting historical figure — a passionate, partisan, and persuasive intervention in the not-at-all “free marketplace of ideas.” Abu-Jamal…
Lupe against the World By Alexander Billet Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album By Lupe Fiasco 2012, Atlantic Records There’s been a lot of controversy, debate, and straight-up drama surrounding Lupe Fiasco around the release of his most recent album, Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1. This…
Guantánamo Witnesses Speak Witness to Guantánamo Project Years of challenges to the offshore torture facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have failed to overcome U.S. government intransigence, and no shutdown of the detention camp as promised by President Barack Obama appears likely. Established in 2002 by the administration of George W. Bush and maintained under Obama,…
A Man of Hope Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left By Martin Duberman 2012, New Press, 400 pages, $26.95 Howard Zinn (1922–2010) lived through and participated in two of the most important social movements of the 20th century: the Civil Rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement. Born into poverty, Zinn was thrown into…
Every Town is a Company Town The Housing Monster By prole.info 2012, Pm Press, 165 pages, $14.95 This small book is crammed full of powerful critiques of the financing, production, and consumption of housing under capitalism. Similar to other publications authored by prole.info, the text is accompanied on every page with striking black-and-white drawings that…
The concept of organization is central to any study of the contemporary history of Arab organizing in the Bay Area. Nadine Naber’s Arab America surveys the various forms of organization associated with immigration patterns, social rup- tures, reactions to state repression, identity, and religious-based liberatory politics within Arab and Muslim organizing from the 1970s…
This collection of short pieces is like an extravagant smorgasbord: a large number of disparate items, many of them fabulous and leaving readers hungry for more similar morsels but others well past their prime and too many of them insufficiently described for the novice grazer. The pieces seem to be three years’ worth of…
Even as a kid, Shawn Peters was fascinated by the story of the Catonsville Nine, the first group of resisters to burn draft files during the Vietnam War. Growing up in Catonsville and schooled by conservative nuns who denounced the group, he learned how they awaited arrest for their action and used their trial…
ASTRO-NOT When I was a young lad, I had dreams of being a fire fighter, an astronaut, and a soldier. One of these dreams came true but it turned out to be a nightmare. Looking back on it, I could have accomplished and gotten so much more out of the other options. Oh, how honorable…
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