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<dd><font size=4>Join us for a Book Launch & Celebration of
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<dd>Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and
Beyond</u></b> <br>
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<dd><font size=3>By David Gilbert<br><br>
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<dd>"Gilbert adds heart and bone to the stuff of
history."</i> —Mumia Abu Jamal<br><br>
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<dd><font size=4>January 29th, 4-6pm <br>
<dd>518 Valencia<br><br>
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<dd><font size=3>this event is free and wheelchair accessible<br><br>
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<dd>with readers/panelists:<br><br>
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<dd>Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz</b>, historian and author of Outlaw Woman</i>
and Red Dirt<br>
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<dd>Terry Bisson</b>, editor of Love and Struggle<br>
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<dd>Molly McClure</b>, anti-racist organizer with Catalyst Project<br>
<dd>Sanyika Bryant</b>, organizer with Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and
Causa Justa::Just Cause<br>
<dd>moderated by Claude Marks</b>, Freedom Archives<br><br>
<dd>About the Book (available now from
<a href="https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=370">
PM Press</a> and at the event)<br><br>
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<dd>A nice Jewish boy from suburban Boston—hell, an Eagle Scout!—David
Gilbert arrived at Columbia University just in time for the explosive
Sixties. From the early anti-Vietnam War protests to the founding of SDS,
from the Columbia Strike to the tragedy of the Townhouse, Gilbert was on
the scene: as organizer, theoretician, and above all, activist. He was
among the first militants who went underground to build the clandestine
resistance to war and racism known as “Weatherman.” And he was among the
last to emerge, in captivity, after the disaster of the 1981 Brinks
robbery, an attempted expropriation that resulted in four deaths and long
prison terms. In this extraordinary memoir, written from the
maximum-security prison where he has lived for almost thirty years, David
Gilbert tells the intensely personal story of his own Long March from
liberal to radical to revolutionary. <br><br>
<dd>Today a beloved and admired mentor to a new generation of activists,
he assesses with rare humor, with an understanding stripped of illusions,
and with uncommon candor the errors and advances, terrors and triumphs of
the Sixties and beyond. It’s a battle that was far from won, but is still
not lost: the struggle to build a new world, and the love that drives
that effort. A cautionary tale and a how-to as well, Love and
Struggle</i> is a book as candid, as uncompromising, and as humane as its
author.<br><br>
<dd>Praise:<br><br>
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<dd>"Required reading for anyone interested in the history of
radical movements in this country. An honest, vivid portrait of a life
spent passionately fighting for justice. In telling his story, Gilbert
also reveals the history of left struggles in the 1960s and 70s, and
imparts important lessons for today's activists."</i> —Jordan
Flaherty, author of Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to
the Jena Six <br><br>
<dd>“David’s is a unique and necessary voice forged in the growing
American gulag, the underbelly of the 'land of the free,' offering a
focused and unassailable critique as well as a vision of a world that
could be but is not yet—a place of peace and love, joy and
justice.” </i>—Bill Ayers, author of Fugitive Days</i> and Teaching
Toward Freedom<br><br>
<dd>“Like many of his contemporaries, David Gilbert gambled his life on a
vision of a more just and generous world. His particular bet cost him the
last three decades in prison, and whether or not you agree with his
youthful decision, you can be the beneficiary of his years of deep
thought, reflection, and analysis on the reality we all share. If there
is any benefit to prison, what some refer to as ‘the involuntary
monastery,’ it may well look like this book. I urge you to read
it.”</i> —Peter Coyote, actor, author of Sleeping Where I
Fall<br><br>
<dd>"This book should stimulate learning from our political
prisoners, but more importantly it challenges us to work to free them,
and in doing so take the best of our history forward."</i>
—Susan Rosenberg, author of An American Radical<br><br>
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<dd>About the Author:<br><br>
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<dd>One of America’s most celebrated political prisoners since his
appearance in the Academy Award nominated film,The Weather
Underground</i>, David Gilbert is also the author of No Surrender</i>, a
book of essays on politics and history. He can be reached at NY’s Auburn
Correctional Facility as 83-A-6158.<br><br>
<dd>About Boots Riley (foreword):<br><br>
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<dd>A popular leader in the progressive struggle for radical change
through culture, Boots Riley is best known as the leader of The Coup, the
seminal hip-hop group from Oakland, CA. Billboard Magazine</i> declared
the group "the best hip-hop act of the past decade." Riley
recently teamed with Tom Morello (of Rage Against the Machine) to form
the revolutionary new group, Street Sweeper Social Club.<br><br>
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