Angola 3 News video interview with Dan Berger
Angola 3 News, a project of The International Coalition to Free the Angola 3, has just made available a great video interview with AK author Dan Berger. Dan has been doing research on US prison movements for his dissertation, and is a wealth of information about (among other things) radical movements from the 1960s to the present.
The two-part video below, conducted in the winter of 2009, is largely based on Dan’s essay “The Real Dragons: A Brief History of Political Militancy and Incarceration: 1960s to 2000s,” which appeared recently in Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners. He also has edited a collection, titled Hidden Histories of 1970s Radicalism, that’s coming out on Rutgers University Press…though you’ll have to wait until Fall 2010 for that one. In the meantime, you should check out his ever-popular AK Press book Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity.
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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.
In part two, Berger discusses prisoner movements today, particularly in light of the recent ten-year anniversaries of both Critical Resistance and The Jericho Movement.
[and, since the Angola 3 News blog gets updated (hooray) you can link to the original post here.]