Research Notes – It's All One Struggle At Base

March 6, 2018March 15, 2018 It's All One Struggle at Base Research Notes

South Chicago ABC Zine Distro: Interview with Anthony Rayson

South Chicago ABC Zine Distro is an Anarchist Black Cross, member of Anarchist Black Cross Network, providing prisoners with free literature consisting of zines and pamphlets, written by Anthony Rayson (b. 1954) as well as by prisoners and other activists. Zines are offered free of charge to prisoners and are welcome to be copied and distributed freely. To download the following interview … Continue reading South Chicago ABC Zine Distro: Interview with Anthony Rayson

February 21, 2018May 6, 2018 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 1970s, the North American prison struggle has produced a tremendous body of theoretical, strategic, and inter-organizational analysis in its historic standoff with the U.S. regime of imprisonment. Yet only a handful of scholars pay concerted attention to texts circulating and events unfolding … Continue reading Prison News Service – a Bulldozer Publication

February 19, 2018March 12, 2018 It's All One Struggle at Base Research Notes

“It’s All One Struggle At Base”

George Jackson once remarked: The nature of the function of the prison with the police state has to be continuously explained, elucidated to the people on the street because we can’t fight alone in here. Oh yeah, we can fight, but if we’re isolated, if the state is successful in accomplishing that, the results are … Continue reading “It’s All One Struggle At Base”

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!)