The latest issue of Turning the Tide, a journal of intercommunal solidarity, just went to the printers and will be out on Saturday. Volume 27 Number 3 of TTT includes a review essay on David Kilcullens Out of the Mountains, a prescription for a new urban counter-insurgency, by Tom Hayden, and an exchange about the book and related issues between Hayden and Mike Davis. Todd Miller contributes a piece on Border Wars in the Homeland, about the 100+-mile Constitution Free Zone along the northern and southern borders, the coasts (and at international airports). As in almost every issue, theres a commentary by Mumia Abu-Jamal, this one on the coincidence of police beatings of a Palestinian teenager and a Black Los Angeles grandmother. Etana and Mecca Shakur, recently acquitted in an Inglewood court on charges arising from their self-defense against an Inglewood cop who tried to assault them, write about their understanding of their victory and the larger victory that must be won. The urgent situation in Gaza, where Israeli bombing and shelling has taken numerous lives and further hostilities are taking shape, is underlined by an appeal for action from Palestinian civil society, signed by a score of organizations. The Grassroots Community Radio Coalition has an analysis of the seemingly perpetual crisis at KPFK and Pacifica with a strategy for a road forward to renewed relevance for listener sponsored, free speech community-oriented radio. There is also information on the annual Running Down the Walls event by the Anarchist Black Cross Federation in McArthur Park, the first annual TORCH Antifa Network conference in Chicago this fall, and Black August activities such as the 100th anniversary celebration of Marcus Garveys UNIA, including a powerful graphic by political prisoner Kevin Rashid Johnson. Coverage of political prisoner and prison issues (Turning the Tide is distributed free to nearly 2000 prisoners around the US) includes news of a terrorism arrest of animal rights activists, including one here in L.A., a call for the release of New Delhi Professor G. N. Saibaba, abducted by state security forces in India (with a photo and links to Arundhati Roys piece on the indigenous-based guerrillas Saibaba is accused of involvement with), and reflections by several of the CA prison hunger strikers from Pelican Bay about the anniversary of their self-sacrificing action, which ignited resistance by nearly 30,000 California prisoners, and has resulted in 500 long-term solitary-confinement prisoners being released to general population, (although as they point out, the CA Dept. of Corrections is filling up the isolation cells almost as quickly as they empty). A piece by Danny Schechter, the News Dissector, on defeating the US surveillance state rounds out the issue, along with a short essay by editor/publisher Michael Novick, drawing lessons about our enemies from NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, as presented and analyzed by Glenn Greenwald in his new book on Snowden, the NSA and the US Surveillance State, No Place to Hide. Novick analyzes the panicky vulnerabilities of a system of exploitation and oppression that must watch everyone, everywhere, all the time because it never knows where a potentially explosive and fatal resistance will break out. The prisoner mailing of this new issue will take place on Sunday, July 20 from 11:30 AM until completion of the 1800-piece mailing (stamping, sealing and address-labeling) at the Peace Center, 3916 S. Sepulveda Blvd. in Culver City, between Venice Blvd. and Washington Pl. (right across from the I-405 off-ramp, and down the block from the Metro 33/733 and the Culver City 6 buses). Therell be some nosh and some music, but bring food and beverages to share if you can make it. Dial 22 on the door keypad and well buzz you in. Thanks!
Posted on: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 08:43:37 +0000
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