Davidson, Josh - Rattling The Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners

Rattling The Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisonersby Josh Davidson (Editor) 420 PagesPublisher: AK Press Dispatches from behind bars. Political prisoners speak out. “Calls upon us to imagine agents of history very differently from the ways we have been encouraged to think of powerful individuals as the motors of change.” —Angela Y. Davis, from the foreword The official story is that the United States has no political prisoners. The reality is that there are hundreds of people rounded up, placed behind bars, and kept there for inordinately long sentences because of their political beliefs and activities. A project of abolitionist Josh Davidson and political prisoner Eric King, this book is filled with the experience and wisdom of over thirty current and former North American political prisoners. It provides first-hand details of prison life and the political commitments that continue to lead prisoners into direct confrontation with state authorities and institution