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Where the Spirit Meets the Bone: Prison, Crime, Freedom

 

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1 Mumia Abu-Jamal, “Survivors Speak Out: ‘Movement Pains,’” Change-Links, October 18, 2021, https://change-links.org/survivors-speak-out-movement-pains-by-mumia-abu-jamal/.

2 Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, I Speak My Own Piece: Autobiography of “The Rebel Girl” (New York: Masses & Mainstream, 1955), 226.

3 Mark Twain, A Horse’s Tale, The Papers of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, [1906] 2020).

4 E. Ethelbert Miller, “Free Agent” in When Your Wife has Tommy John Surgery (Westport: City Point Press, 2021), 28. Quoted with permission of the author.

5 “If I worshipped order, I should want it to be made for me, not me for it.” See Andre Malraux, The Temptation of the West (New York: Vintage Books, 1961), 27.

6 “The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (The Nelson Mandela Rules),” The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2020, https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/justice-and-prison-reform/NMRules.html,

Andrew Coyle, A Human Rights Approach to Prison Management: Handbook for Prison Staff (London: International Centre for Prison Studies, 2002).

7 “In the Spirit of Mandela” International Tribunal on US Human Rights violations was held (virtually and in New York City) on October 22–25, 2021 with the purpose of documenting the various ways in which US treatment of political prisoners, US mass incarceration policies, violate international law. The conference and tribunal were conceived as a continuation of the 1951 “We Charge Genocide,” launched by William Patterson which applied the United Nations definition of genocide to the conditions faced by African Americans in the United States (more information about the conference can be found at https://spiritofmandela.org/).

8 John Trudell, “what it means to be human,” Many Worlds, March 15, 2001, https://ratical.org/many_worlds/JohnTrudell/index.html.

9 “Each time I visited Mooney [in San Quentin], I took four or five young people with me. One would send in a request for John B. McNamara, another for Mather Schmidt, etc. Then I would ask for Tom Mooney and we would all sit together along the line and talk together. We had many wonderful conferences there.” Ella Reeve Bloor, We Are Man (New York: International Publishers, 1940), 191–192.

“ … when McNamara of the Structural Iron Workers, which had systematically blown-up scab-erected bridges, always with certainty that no lives would be lost, was induced by the promise that his fellow workers would be let off ‘to confess’ … the IWW frankly called him a victim of the class war and with all his friends deserting him, provided him to his death in San Quentin with tobacco money.” Fred Thompson and Patrick Murfin, The I. W. W., Its First Seventy Years, 1905–1975: The History of an Effort to Organize the Working Class: A Corrected Facsimile of the 1955 Volume, The I.W.W., Its First Fifty Years (Chicago: Industrial Workers of the World, 1976), 87–88.

10 Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, The Alderson Story: My Life as a Political Prisoner (New York: International Publishers, 1963).

11 Eugene V. Debs, “The Canton, Ohio Speech,” in The Eugene V. Debs Reader, ed. William A. Pelz (London: Merlin Press, 2014), 186–203.

12 Philip S. Foner, History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Vol. 5 (New York: International Publishers, 1980), 27.

13 Audre Lorde, “Poetry is Not a Luxury,” in Sister Outsider (New York: W. W. Norton, 1993), 43.

14 Samuel Butler, Erewhon: or, Over the Range (London: Trübner and Ballantyne, 1872)

15 Audrey Lorde, “Transformation of Silence,” in Sister Outsider, 39.

16 Peter Matthiessen, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (New York: Penguin Books, 1992), 298

17 Trudell, “what it means to be human.”

18 Lucinda Williams, Compassion, Album, Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone (Highway 20 Records, 2014).

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