Love and Struggle: Party and Book Launch

This event will include music, speakers and is a book launch for David Gilbert's new book "Love and Struggle: My life in the SDS, Weather Underground and Beyond" Thursday, Feb. 9
7pm - Midnight
SAW Gallery
67 Nicholas
Wheelchair Accessible
This event is a fund raiser for Books 2 Prisoners and Red Aide/Secours Rouge
$7/$20 with a copy of the book/Pay what you can
(No one turned away) Bands: Police Funeral (Punk)
Justin Dea (Folk)
Jeremy Owen (Folk) Speakers: - Representative from the Revolutionary Communist Party who will be speaking about GAMMA, the newly formed anti-anarchist and anti-communist police unit in Montreal - Jaggi Singh (TBC), who will be speaking about political prisoners and David Gilbert - A member of Books 2 Prisoners who will be speaking about the work they do supporting prisoners and working for prisoner justice More info about David Gilbert and his new book, "Love and Struggle". A nice Jewish boy from suburban Boston—hell, an Eagle Scout!—David Gilbert
arrived at Columbia University just in time for the explosive Sixties.
From the early anti-Vietnam War protests to the founding of SDS, from the
Columbia Strike to the tragedy of the Townhouse, Gilbert was on the scene:
as organizer, theoretician, and above all, activist. He was among the
first militants who went underground to build the clandestine resistance
to war and racism known as “Weatherman.” And he was among the last to
emerge, in captivity, after the disaster of the 1981 Brinks robbery, an
attempted expropriation that resulted in four deaths and long prison
terms. In this extraordinary memoir, written from the maximum-security
prison where he has lived for almost thirty years, David Gilbert tells the
intensely personal story of his own Long March from liberal to radical to
revolutionary. Today a beloved and admired mentor to a new generation of activists, he
assesses with rare humor, with an understanding stripped of illusions, and
with uncommon candor the errors and advances, terrors and triumphs of the
Sixties and beyond. It’s a battle that was far from won, but is still not
lost: the struggle to build a new world, and the love that drives that
effort. A cautionary tale and a how-to as well, Love and Struggle is a
book as candid, as uncompromising, and as humane as its author. Praise: "Gilbert adds heart and bone to the stuff of history." —Mumia Abu Jamal "Required reading for anyone interested in the history of radical
movements in this country. An honest, vivid portrait of a life spent
passionately fighting for justice. In telling his story, Gilbert also
reveals the history of left struggles in the 1960s and 70s, and imparts
important lessons for today's activists." —Jordan Flaherty, author of
Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six “David’s is a unique and necessary voice forged in the growing American
gulag, the underbelly of the 'land of the free,' offering a focused and
unassailable critique as well as a vision of a world that could be but is
not yet—a place of peace and love, joy and justice.” —Bill Ayers, author
of Fugitive Days and Teaching Toward Freedom “Like many of his contemporaries, David Gilbert gambled his life on a
vision of a more just and generous world. His particular bet cost him the
last three decades in prison, and whether or not you agree with his
youthful decision, you can be the beneficiary of his years of deep
thought, reflection, and analysis on the reality we all share. If there is
any benefit to prison, what some refer to as ‘the involuntary monastery,’
it may well look like this book. I urge you to read it.” —Peter Coyote,
actor, author of Sleeping Where I Fall "This book should stimulate learning from our political prisoners, but
more importantly it challenges us to work to free them, and in doing so
take the best of our history forward." —Susan Rosenberg, author of An
American Radical About the Author: One of America’s most celebrated political prisoners since his appearance
in the Academy Award nominated film, The Weather Underground, David
Gilbert is also the author of No Surrender, a book of essays on politics
and history. He can be reached at NY’s Auburn Correctional Facility as
83-A-6158. About Boots Riley (foreword): A popular leader in the progressive struggle for radical change through
culture, Boots Riley is best known as the leader of The Coup, the seminal
hip-hop group from Oakland, CA. Billboard Magazine declared the group "the
best hip-hop act of the past decade." Riley recently teamed with Tom
Morello (of Rage Against the Machine) to form the revolutionary new group,
Street Sweeper Social Club.