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:
David Gilbert #83-A-6158
Shawangunk Correctional Facility
PO Box 700
Wallkill, NY 12589-0700
A nice Jewish boy from suburban Boston—hell, an Eagle Scout!—David Gilbert arrived at Columbia University just in time for the explosive ’60s. 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 “Weathermen.”
Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond
SKU: 9781604863192
Author: David Gilbert • Foreword by Boots Riley
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 9781604863192
Published: 1/2012
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Page count: 352
Subject: Autobiography, Politics-Activism
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
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Reviews
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- Revolution and Beyond: A Review of Love and Struggle
- Represent Our Resistance: Love and Struggle: Review
- Gilbert’s Memoir Helps Us Understand Our History
- Love and Struggle: A Publishers Weekly Review
- Love and Struggle: An Alpine Anarchist Review
- Love and Struggle: A Booklist Review
- Love and Struggle Is a Well-Written, Intellectually and Politically Exciting, and Emotionally Moving Autobiography
- Reflections of a Weather Underground Veteran
- Armed Affect: Revolutionary Love and the Politics of Care
- Love and Struggle: Book of the Year in The New Statesman
- Notes on a Life in Struggle
- A Brother with a Furious Mind
Interviews
Mentions
- Love and Struggle in Socialism and Democracy
- Excerpt of David Gilbert’s Love and Struggle on Transformation