Recommend Books on History of Government Repression of Dissent

 

On 11/13/01 about 100 people turned out to the Four Winds Survival Center to listen to several notable elder activists share stories about the history of US government repression of activism locally, nationally and internationally.

PANELISTS: Nita Gonzales - Escuela Tlatelolco   *   Marge Taniwaki - Making Waves: Asians in Action   *   Tink Tinker - American Indian Movement   *   Doug Bohm - Free Speech Defense Committee   *   Seku Nkrumah - All African Peoples Revolutionary Party   *   Lowell May - Bread & Roses Workers Cultural Center

 

  

For further education, the panelists recommend the following books:

(Recommended Book Stores)

Robert Allen. Black Awakening in Capitalist America. Garden City, NY: AnchorBooks, 1970

John Armor. Manzanar. Photographs by Ansel Adams & text about the American concentration camps.

Ward Churchill. A Little Matter of Genocide. City Lights Press, 1999. Both historical and contemporary political analysis with respect to aboriginal peoples in North America. All of Ward's writings merit the attention of folk who are interested in truth, justice, peace, and freedom.

Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall. The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States

Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall. Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement. South End Press, 1990 (corrected edition of the 1988 ed.). This is the authoritative book on the late 60s and early 70s. Important read for understanding US government intervention in US social movements of the period.

Frantz Fanon. Wretched of the Earth. 1965

Eduardo Galeano.  The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent   Introduction by Isabel Allende

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Empire. Harvard University Press, 2000. This is a prescient volume. It does a great job of predicting the emergence of the police state in the United States, explaining why we can expect more of the same. Published a year prior to 9-11, it discusses globalization in terms of the emergence of a world empire that is not state based. Like the following book, this is a somewhat more difficult read but well worth the effort. I am recommending this one to everyone within sight. I don't agree with all of the conclusions, by any means. But the analysis is right on target.

Ankie Hoogvelt. Globalization and the Postcolonial World. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, 2001. This is a textbook on globalization. Somewhat difficult-in terms of technical language-but a great read for understanding the world at the moment.

Noel Ignatiev. How the Irish Became White. Routtledge Press, 1995.

C.L.R. James. The Black Jacobins : Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution.

C.L.R. James. Modern Politics. Bewick/ed Press, 1973 Detroit.

William Minoru Hohri. Repairing America: An Account of the Movement for Japanese -American Redress

Kwame Nkrumah. Class Struggle in Africa

Assata Shakur.  Assata: An Autobiography

David G. Stratman. We Can Change the World: the Real Meaning of Everyday Life. New Democracy Books, 1991.

Chancellor Williams.  Destruction of Black Civilization. Third World Press. 

 

 

 

 

 

Event Co-Sponsors: the American Coalition for Palestine — Escuela Tlatelolco — Bread & Roses Cultural Workers Center — Denver Green Party — Chiapas Coalition — American Friends Service Committee — End the Politics of Cruelty — Students for a Free Tibet — Human Bean Company — Denver Tenants Union — Feminist Alliance — Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center — Model United Nations — Colorado Campaign for Middle East Peace — Free Speech Committee — National Lawyers Guild — Denver Justice & Peace Committee — Breakdown Book Collective

Recommended Book Stores

* Most of these titles can be found for FREE...at the library!

 

In Boulder:

Left Hand Books & Records: 1200 Pearl Street Mall, 303-443-8252

 

In Denver:

Breakdown Book Collective, 1409 Ogden Street, 303.832.7952

Bread & Roses Workers Cultural Center: 2298 Clay Street, 303-433-1852

Capitol Hill Books, East Colfax & Grant Street, 303-837-0700

Tattered Cover Bookstore

     Downtown - LoDo: 16th Street & Wynkoop, 303-436-1070

     Cherry Creek: 1st & Milwaukee, 303-322-7727

 

 

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