Research Notes – It's All One Struggle At Base

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

It’s All One Struggle At Base: Project Proposal

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 no longer viable, in the end. It’s one of the strongest institutions supporting the totalitarian state. We have to destroy its effectiveness, and that’s … Continue reading It’s All One Struggle At Base: Project Proposal

June 13, 2019 It's All One Struggle at Base Research Notes

Working Outline

It’s All One Struggle At Base: the Craft of Movement-Building Across Prison Walls and the Meaning of Abolitionist Solidarity Introduction: Break the Chains The Social Context of PIC Abolitionist Struggle at the Turn of the 21st Century Chapter 1: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex Early Frameworks of Abolitionist Organizing and the Challenge of Political Pedagogy … Continue reading Working Outline

February 21, 2018May 31, 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 Since the bloody close of the "civil rights era" and the U.S. government's domestic crackdown on oppressed people's uprisings and liberation movements, there has been a steadily growing and committed network of movements building popular opposition to the U.S. white supremacist carceral state. These … 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!)