[News] David Gilbert Book Release NYC

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Resistance in Brooklyn
in conjunction with the Columbia University Office of Social Justice 
Initiatives and the Brecht Forum
presents


NO SURRENDER: A Book Party for the New Collected Writings of Political 
Prisoner DAVID GILBERT


Thursday, June 10, 2004, 7:00 pm
Columbia University Law School
West 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue


Ashanti Alston, Chesa Boudin, Juan Gonzalez, Naomi Jaffe, Jeff Jones, 
Monifa Akinwole-Bandele, Susan Rosenberg, Barbara Smith, and Laura Whitehorn


David Gilbert is one of America's longest-held political prisoners, and one 
of the most politically active. A founder of Columbia University Students 
for a Democratic Society (SDS), and a veteran of the Civil Rights and 
anti-Vietnam War movements, Gilbert joined the Weather Underground 
Organization (WUO) in the late 1960s. After more than 10 years of 
clandestine resistance, he was captured in the course of an armed action in 
1981. Since that time, he has worked inside the New York State prison 
system as an AIDS activist, prisoner rights organizer, and author.

No Surrender is the first collection of David Gilbert's writings, and 
provides a unique contribution to our understanding of the most ambitious 
and audacious attempts by white anti-imperialists to build an underground 
movement "within the belly of the beast." With unsparing honesty and 
unfailing humor, he discusses the errors and successes of the WUO and their 
allies; the pitfalls of racism, sexism, and ego in revolutionary 
organizations; and the possibilities and perils facing today's growing 
anti-war and anti-globalization movements. Native American author and 
activist Ward Churchill wrote: "Given the strength of David's character, 
his writings are offered as tools-nay, weapons-in the ongoing struggle for 
liberation. They are of incalculable value to each of us who aspires to the 
attainment of freedom, justice, and dignity for ALL people."

Ashanti Alston, former Black Liberation Army political prisoner and current 
coordinator of Critical Resistance Northeast; Chesa Boudin, student 
activist, Rhodes Scholar, and son of Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert; Juan 
Gonzalez, co-host of Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now!, columnist , New York 
Daily News, president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, 
and old SDS friend of David's; Naomi Jaffe and Jeff Jones, former WUO 
activists;  Monifa Akinwole-Bandele, Director of Malcolm X Grassroots 
Movement; Susan Rosenberg, former political prisoner, noted PEN author; 
Barbara Smith, noted poet and author, founder of Kitchen Table Women of 
Color Press; Laura Whitehorn, former political prisoner, current POZ editor 
and human rights activist. Also featuring some of David's other 
friends-Matt Meyer, Teresa Agrillo, and Elana Levy.


50% of No Surrender book sales from this evening's event will be donated to 
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Commissary Fund for NY State political 
prisoners. Signed book plates will be available for the first sixty books 
sold!!

Suggested donation $6/$8/$10


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