Research Notes – It's All One Struggle At Base

January 16, 2020January 22, 2020 It's All One Struggle at Base Research Notes

Haunting

The [prison] regime breaks some, physically exterminates others. An uncounted many...awaken a new and incorrigible political fantasy, which continuously haunts civil society and its resident nonimprisoned activists and intellectuals. Dylan Rodríguez, 2006 Everyday I speak with a friend, loved one, or political acquaintance who is imprisoned. Mostly organizers I’m collaborating with on projects. Some … Continue reading Haunting

September 21, 2019January 4, 2020 It's All One Struggle at Base Archival Work, References, Research Notes

Working Bibliography

BIBLIOGRAPHY Abu-Jamal, Mumia. Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisons v. the U.S. San Francisco: City Lights, 2009. —. Live from Death Row. New York: Harper Perennial, 1996. Acoli, Sundiata. An Updated History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle. Jacksonville: Sundiata Acoli Freedom Campaign & Anarchist Black Cross Federation (1998). —. Bits N Pieces, The Sundiata … Continue reading Working Bibliography

September 17, 2019January 16, 2020 It's All One Struggle at Base Archival Work, References, Research Notes

Dissertation Prospectus

It’s All One Struggle at Base: Abolitionist Solidarity, Grassroots Movement-Building, and the Contradictions of Revolutionary Organization Across Prison Walls Dissertation Prospectus, draft submitted September 2019 Well, we’re all familiar with the function of the prison as an institution serving the needs of the totalitarian state. We’ve got to destroy that function; the function has to be … Continue reading Dissertation Prospectus

February 21, 2018October 6, 2019 It's All One Struggle at Base Research Notes

Prison News Service – a Bulldozer Publication

Prison News Service – a Bulldozer Publication http://prisonfreepress.org/Prison_News_Service.htm Back Issue Catalogue This post marks my first attempt to conceptualize the place of Prison News Service: a Bulldozer Publication/The Marionette in a genealogy of radical opposition to the U.S. prison regime and industrial complex. It is derived from research notes and will continue to grow … Continue reading Prison News Service – a Bulldozer Publication

This workspace is designed to document my research on radical prison activism in North America. I am studying the different social and political forms that the prison struggle has taken over the years, centering the intellectual dimensions of grassroots counter-carceral insurgencies between the 1980s and early-2000s.

Each post will continue to grow as the weeks pass by, so what you read will likely be built upon and revised, again and again. Therefore please read generously and any suggestions or points of reference you might share are wholeheartedly welcome.

Significant portions of the archival resources I am working with are housed at the San Francisco Freedom Archives, the Southern California Library, the DePaul library special collections, and my bookshelf. The majority of the project, however, will be based in oral history methods. (More to come on that note!)