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Subject: VIDEO INTERVIEW: Dan Berger on Political Prisoners in the United
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From: Hans Bennett <hbjournalist1@gmail.com><br>
To: hbjournalist@gmail.com<br><br>
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VIDEO INTERVIEW: Dan Berger on Political Prisoners in the United
States<br><br>
By Angola 3 News<br><br>
This new interview with author/activist Dan Berger was conducted in the
Winter of 2009. The interview is mostly based on Berger's essay "The
Real Dragons: A Brief History of Political Militancy and Incarceration:
1960s to 2000s," which is featured in the book
<a href="https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=60">
"Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to
Free U.S. Political Prisoners" </a>(PM Press, 2008). <br><br>
In part one, Berger discusses his new research into US prison movements
of the 1970s, which Berger is researching and writing about for his PhD
dissertation at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University
of Pennsylvania.<br><br>
In part two, Berger discusses prisoner movements today, particularly in
light of the recent ten-year anniversaries of both
<a href="http://www.criticalresistance.org/">Critical Resistance</a> and
<a href="http://www.thejerichomovement.com/">The Jericho
Movement</a>.<br><br>
<a href="http://www.danberger.org/">Dan Berger</a> is a writer and
activist living in Philadelphia. He is the author of
"<a href="http://akpress.org/2005/items/outlawsofamericaak">Outlaws
of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of
Solidarity</a>" (AK Press, 2006) and co-editor of
"<a href="http://www.nationbooks.org/book/43/Letters%20from%20Young%20Activists">
Letters From Young Activists: Today’s Rebels Speak Out</a>" (Nation
Books, 2005). Presently, along with his dissertation about 1970s prison
movements, he is editing a book about 1970s-era radicalism, titled
"Hidden Histories of 1970s Radicalism" (forthcoming from
Rutgers University Press in Fall, 2010). His writings have also been
published in The International Journal of Communication, The Nation,
Punishment & Society, WireTap, Z Magazine, and elsewhere.<br><br>
The grandson of Holocaust survivors, Berger has long been involved in
struggles for social justice. From 2000 to 2003, he served as founding
co-editor of ONWARD, a now-defunct internationally distributed quarterly
anarchist newspaper based in Gainesville, Florida, that emerged out of
the global justice movement. Berger has also been involved in an array of
organizing efforts against war, racism, and the prison industrial
complex. A longtime activist in support of U.S. political prisoners,
Berger has published and presented scholarly essays on news images and
prison abuse, alternative media and globalization, and race and social
movements. <br>
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This new video-interview is made by Angola 3 News, which is an official
project of The International Coalition to Free the Angola 3. Over 37
years ago in Louisiana, 3 young black men were silenced for trying to
expose continued segregation, systematic corruption, and horrific abuse
in the biggest prison in the US, an 18,000-acre former slave plantation
called Angola. In 1972 and 1973 prison officials charged Herman Wallace,
Albert Woodfox, and Robert King (who then became known as the Angola 3)
with murders they did not commit and threw them into 6x9 ft. cells in
solitary confinement, for over 36 years. Robert was freed in 2001 after
29 years of continuous solitary confinement, but Herman and Albert remain
behind bars.<br>
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Through our work supporting the Angola 3, we seeks to spotlight the
broader issues that are central to their story, like racism, repression,
prisons, human rights, solitary confinement as torture, political
prisoners, the legacy of the Black Panther Party, and more. Our first
video focused on California death row prisoner Kevin Cooper. Please stay
tuned for future videos and more original multi-media projects by
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