[Ppnews] Dan Berger Video Interview on Political Prisoners in the US

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Subject: VIDEO INTERVIEW: Dan Berger on Political Prisoners in the United
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VIDEO INTERVIEW: Dan Berger on Political Prisoners in the United States

By Angola 3 News

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 
<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" (PM Press, 2008).

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 
<http://www.criticalresistance.org/>Critical Resistance and 
<http://www.thejerichomovement.com/>The Jericho Movement.

<http://www.danberger.org/>Dan Berger is a writer and activist living 
in Philadelphia. He is the author of 
"<http://akpress.org/2005/items/outlawsofamericaak>Outlaws of 
America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity" (AK 
Press, 2006) and co-editor of 
"<http://www.nationbooks.org/book/43/Letters%20from%20Young%20Activists>Letters 
 From Young Activists: Today's Rebels Speak Out" (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.

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.

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.

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 visiting 
<http://www.angola3news.com>www.angola3news.com and our other websites:

<http://www.angola3.org>www.angola3.org

www.angola3action.org

<http://www.a3grassroots.org>www.a3grassroots.org

www.kingsfreelines.com

<http://www.hermanshouse.org>www.hermanshouse.org




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