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Let the Fire Burn by Aaron Lowinger, The Public, 12/09/2015 [FILM] One of America’s darkest recent chapters that many people have never heard about: In 1985 Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on the home of MOVE, a black liberation group then classified by the city as a terrorist organization. The bomb killed group leader John Africa and ten others, including five children. When the flames spread to neighboring rowhouses, firefighters on scene were instructed to “let the fire burn,” igniting 65 homes and lending the title to this award-winning 2013 documentary about the group and the 1985 incident. It’s a fascinating look at how an upstart...

by Buck Quigley, Artvoice, 11/26/2015   Our friends Leslie James Pickering and Theresa Baker-Pickering at Burning Books (420 Connecticut St./burningbooksbuffalo.com) have offered us a list of titles sure to appeal to those progressive friends on your shopping list—those that can’t see an ad for holiday diamonds without clenching their teeth in disgust at how those diamonds were likely obtained. Without further ado, here are some gift ideas for designed to shine a bright light throughout the holiday season...   Sisters of the Revolution gathers a selection of feminist speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, and more), expanding the conversation about...

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by George Sax, The Public, 10-14-2015 www.dailypublic.com/articles/10132015/bridge-spies-black-panthers-vanguard-revolution   In 1966, when members of the Oakland, California Black Panther chapter walked onto the floor of the State Assembly in Sacramento carrying loaded long guns—then legal under California law—in order to protest proposed legislation aimed at them, they provoked more than the predictable outrage. Republicans, led by Ronald Reagan, called for gun-control measures. Stanley Nelson’s  documentary, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, retells that episode with savage irony. (Actually, Panthers found themselves on the Assembly floor by mistake. They were looking for the gallery.) Nelson adroitly relates the Panther party’s story (aided...

Sara Ali, Karibu News, September 16, 2015 - http://thekaribunews.com/2015/09/16/author-kristian-williams-returns-to-buffalo/   Kristian Williams is an anarchist author who focuses on exposing and fighting against the state and police brutality. He is widely known for his books “Our Enemies in Blue” and “Fire the Cops.” I had the chance to talk to Williams before he makes his way to Buffalo. We discussed the role of the police and what New Americans ought to know about the police as they begin to settle in their new home. “If you want to understand what the police do, you’re better off thinking of it not...