Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners - Couverture souple

Meyer, Matt

 
9781604860351: Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners

Synopsis

Presents a two-decade sweep of essays, analyses, histories, interviews, resolutions, verdicts and poems by and about the scores of US political prisoners and the campaigns to safeguard theur rights and secure their freedom.

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À propos des auteurs

Matt Meyer is an educator-activist, based in New York City. Founding PJSA Co-Chair along with USF Dean Jennifer Turpin, Meyer has long worked to bring together academics and activists for lasting social change. A former public draft registration resister and chair of the War Resisters League, he continues to serve as convener of the War Resisters International Africa Working Group. With Bill Sutherland, Meyer authored Guns and Gandhi in Africa: Pan-African Insights on Nonviolence, Armed Struggle and Liberation. He has edited the Fellowship of Reconciliation's "Puerto Rico: The Cost of Colonialism;" War in Africa and an African Peace; and the forthcoming two-volume Seeds of New Hope: African Peace Studies for the 21st Century.



Adolfo Pérez Esquivel is an Argentine activist, community organizer, art painter, writer, sculptor, and Nobel Peace Laureate.



Lynne Stewart was a defense attorney known for representing controversial, famous defendants. She was convicted on charges of conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists in 2005, and sentenced to 28 months in prison.



Ashanti Alston is a speaker, writer, organizer, and motivator as well as a former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. He served a total of fourteen years as a political prisoner. Ashanti resides in Providence, Rhode Island.

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