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This issue of Shadowbanned Magazine explores grief as both a personal and collective experience—132 pages examining how loss, power, and resistance shape our lives and our politics.
Inside the issue: • Minneapolis Rising — a powerful essay and photo series by photojournalist @wali_talks documenting the city the day after Renée Good was shot in Minneapolis.
• An interview with the designer behind the Indigenous fashion brand @primerrebeldedeamerica on reclaiming identity—and who really needs to “go back where they came from.”
• An investigation from @postp0stpost into Groypers and the online subculture reviving Nazi occult folklore like Agartha.
• A dispatch from @jphillll on the never-ending Cold War.
Contributors:
Nick Pergue
Parham Ghalamder
Mason Harper
Miki Surma
Rohan Zhou-Lee
Ryan Evans
Maya Alinaizi
Hashim Al Hashimi
Wali Khan
Zach Hussein
Myriam Robinson-Puche
Postpostpost
Josh Potash
Interviews with:
Victor Vegas of Primer Rebelde de Americas
Michael Kissling of Abilityforge.net
Cira Pascual Marquinq professor at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela
Driven by the Movement collects the stories of twenty ordinary people who did extraordinary things for the Black liberation struggle during the pivotal decade of 1965–1975. These activists came from across the US and all walks of life—single working mothers, clergy, students, teachers, military veterans—to organize against police brutality, poverty, hunger, substandard schools, and colonialism in Africa.
Drawing from her own experience at the heart of the movement, JoNina Abron-Ervin’s on-the-ground reporting offers a rare look into the pragmatism, optimism, compromise, and contradiction and the everyday acts of dedication that animated the Black Power era.
This new edition includes expanded material on the history of the Black Panther newspaper as a source of mass political education and on the Black Panther Party’s legendary survival programs, such as its Free Breakfast for Children and healthcare programs.
A foreword by writer and organizer William C. Anderson connects two torchbearers of the Black radical tradition across generations.
Cover art by Michael Hurt-Hall
“Martin Sostre was one of the most important Black political prisoners of the 1960's. He was framed by the Buffalo (NYS) political establishment and police force after a racial rebellion against poverty, racism, and long years of police brutality.
While in prison, he was almost totally responsible for the winning of prisoner's democratic rights during the 1960's and 70's, including the right to read radical and Black literature, the right for prisoners to hold cultural and religious meetings, esp. for alternate unpopular religions faiths and political views; prisoners were allowed to receive almost all political books, except those proven to incitement to riot ; the right to a hearing and offering of proofs in disciplinary cases; in addition, they could not be held indefinitely in solitary confinement.
Law students or even Criminal Justice majors should read this book, if they can find it. it is valuable and will wake up the mind of anyone who is willing to think critically.”
Anarchism and the Black Revolution first connected Black radical thought to anarchist theory in 1979. Now amidst a rising tide of Black political organizing, this foundational classic written by a key figure of the Civil Rights movement is republished with a wealth of original material for a new generation.
Anarchist theory has long suffered from a whiteness problem. This book places its critique of both capitalism and racism firmly at the centre of the text. Making a powerful case for the building of a Black revolutionary movement that rejects sexism, homophobia, militarism and racism, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin counters the lies and distortions about anarchism spread by its left- and right-wing opponents alike.
New material includes an interview with writer and activist William C. Anderson, as well as new essays, and a contextualizing biography of the author's inspiring life.
A society born of white supremacy and patriarchy must, by definition, ignore the voices of Black women. We know that unfortunately, such an attitude will also naturally seep into every stratum of that society Part of the contribution to correct that was the centering and airing of Black women’s voices through Some of Us Are Brave: A Black Women’s Radio Program that aired on Pacifica’s Los Angeles radio station (KPFK) from 2003 until 2011. The program covered a myriad of issues by amplifying the voices of a broad cross-section of Black women. Some of those voices have been preserved here in this volume. In addition to capturing various moments in time with a variety of women, this is also a means of taking the intellectual production of and about Black women out of the hands of institutions that are both fundamentally anti-Black and anti-woman. Volume 1 contains interviews under the headings The Shoulders on Which We Stand and Black Lives Have Always Mattered. Volume 2 will cover Black Women’s Health, Bruthas on Sistas, and Sistas in Struggle.
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I Cannot Submit to Injustices is a collection of works by Black Puerto Rican revolutionary Martin Sostre. As a founding figure of both the prison abolition movement and contemporary Black anarchism, Sostre’s eminence as a political thinker and tireless activist continues to gain wider recognition.
These texts represent decades of Sostre’s work as an agitator, teacher, and intellectual in the face of intense state repression, including years in solitary confinement as punishment for his activism. While in prison, Sostre established radical study groups and lending libraries, published several revolutionary newspapers, organized chapters of the Black Panther Party, and fought for the rights of incarcerated workers. A self-taught lawyer, Sostre’s strategy was to struggle on the offensive, pressing legal battles that established the constitutional rights of prisoners and refusing to submit to body searches by guards he deemed state-sanctioned sexual assault, for which he was beaten nearly a dozen times. With never-before-published interviews and speeches alongside powerful essays reproduced for the first time since their original publication, this volume offers readers overdue access to Sostre’s ideas about anarchism, armed struggle, and Black liberation in his own words.
A foreword by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin (Anarchism and the Black Revolution), who was introduced to anarchism by Sostre while they were imprisoned together, in conversation with William C. Anderson (Nation on No Map), reflects on Martin Sostre’s teachings on Black revolutionary organizing and on his enduring legacy in the Black radical tradition.
“If Attica fell to us in a matter of hours despite it being your most secure maximum security prison-fortress equipped with your latest repressive technology, so shall fall all your fortresses, inside and out. Revolutionary spirit conquers all obstacles.” —Martin Sostre, “The New Prisoner” (1973)