We have launched a “Social-D Book Club" by mail program to help get us all through the temporary closures due to COVID-19 restrictions on public gathering - and to provide some relief and interesting books in your life.You can add funds to your Book Club balance at two levels: $50 and $100. Your Book Club balance can be used for any books that we have in stock, for books that we will be posting on Instagram, items listed here on this website - or when we reopen the bookstore for.....
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Interviews with prisoners deemed "leaders" of the 1971 rebellion at Attica Prison. "The following are voices from the sealed fortress. Elliott (L.D.) Barkley (who was murdered well after the prison was retaken) spoke for all men in the yard when he said: We are men. We are not beasts and we do not intend to be beaten or driven as such." With black and white photographs of those interviewed. In a custom-made protective mylar jacket.

Condition: Fine.
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The Summer 1968 issue printed on paper of various colors. Published from 1968-1969 in the East Bay, the birthplace of the Black Panther Party, Black Politics was "a part of the Black liberation movement and believe[s] that freedom, justice, and equality must be attained by those means that the oppressed think necessary." This issue includes an editorial on the long history of violence in America, articles on capital punishment and the importance of learning how to shoot a gun, an appeal to free Huey Newton on the back cover, translated.....
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The April/May 1968 Special Huey P. Newton Issue. Published from 1968-1969 in the East Bay, the birthplace of the Black Panther Party, Black Politics was "a part of the Black liberation movement and believe[s] that freedom, justice, and equality must be attained by those means that the oppressed think necessary." At the publication of this issue, Black Panther Party founder Huey Newton was charged in the death of a police officer and was being held in jail. One article reviews these events, while another is by Newton himself. Others discuss.....
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Eldridge Cleaver’s powerful book - a memoir, collection of essays and open letters written while incarcerated at Folsom State Prison. Eighth printing.

Condition: Very Good, creasing to front interior flap of dust jacket; smudges to front and rear flyleafs; otherwise very clean.
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Five speeches by Lightfoot on Black Liberation. Lightfoot was a Marxist and member of the Communist Party's National Committee, and Chairman of its Commission on Black Liberation. In a custom-made protective mylar jacket.

Condition: Good, light edgewear and tiny bumps to corners; underlining in red pen to about 15 pages.
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Issue #14 (Vol. 4 No. 14, Winter Solstice) of the quarterly periodical originally published at various lesbian intentional communities based in Southern Oregon and later from the land that Ruth and Jean Mountaingrove purchased in Wolfcreek, Oregon, which they called "Rootworks". Although collectively produced, the WomanSpirit publishing project was largely coordinated and edited by Ruth and Jean. It is said to be the first periodical dedictated to lesbian feminism and spirituality, and was a central part of movements and ideas that continued to grow throughout the 1970s: the Goddess Movement.....
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A 1969 issue printed on paper of various colors. Published from 1968-1969 in the East Bay, the birthplace of the Black Panther Party, Black Politics was "a part of the Black liberation movement and believe[s] that freedom, justice, and equality must be attained by those means that the oppressed think necessary." This issue includes articles on the role of violence in revolutionary change, the strike as a tactic, Israel, terrorism and sabotage, an editorial on police murder, and an appeal to boycott Safeway, plus more.

Condition: Very Good+, edge toning.....
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The "free giveaway" One-Year Anniversary special issue of the influential LA punk magazine, Slash. Contains many ads plus "esoteric" messages, photos and artwork by staffers, a tribute to The Screamers, and more.

Condition: Near Fine, toning to newsprint.
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The second issue of the influential LA punk magazine, Slash, with John Denney of the Weirdos on the cover. Articles and features include interviews with the Weirdos, the Screamers, plus Deaf School, album and 45 reviews, a spread on Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood, Gary Panter comics, and more.

Condition: Near Fine, toning to newsprint pages; .25" closed tear at bottom of front cover and first page, a 1" closed tear to next to last page, otherwise very nice.
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The second printing of Sonia Sanchez's collection of radical poems in three sections: Survival Poems, Love/Songs/Chants and TCB/en Poems. With an introduction by Dudley Randall, the poet and founder of Detroit's Broadside Press. In 2015, Broadside Press merged with Lotus Press to become Broadside Lotus Press, the oldest black-owned press still in operation in the United States. In a custom-made protective mylar jacket.

Condition: Very Good+, light edgewear and toning to covers.
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