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Join us in celebrating the release of political prisoner David Gilbert's memoirs, Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond.
There will be a film screening of the 2002 documentary The Weather Underground (with French subtitles). Followed by readings from Love and Struggle, and discussion. Whisper translation into French will be available upon request. Snacks will be served.
Copies of Love and Struggle (regular price $23.25) will be available at the discounted price of $16 at these three events only.
If you have any questions about these events, regarding accessibility or anything else, please contact 438-764-2728. If you require childcare, please call at least 48 hours ahead of time.
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David Gilbert has devoted his life to making the world a better place. The Civil Rights struggle of the 60s exposed him to the sham of US democracy and embodied the beauty of collective struggle. In 1965 he started the Vietnam Committee at Columbia University in NY and became a founding member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) there. In 1967, David authored the first SDS pamphlet on US Imperialism and participated in the Columbia Strike of 1968. After about 5 years of organizing in the above ground movement, David joined the revolutionary underground, spending a total of 10 years engaging in building a clandestine resistance movement.
On October 20, 1981, he and other comrades were captured at Nyack, New York, during an attempted expropriation by a unit of the Black Liberation Army working with white revolutionaries. During the expropriation attempt, a Brinks guard and two police officers were killed. Charged and convicted of felony murder, David is serving a 75 year (minimum) to life sentence.
While in prison, David has been an inspiration, and acted as a mentor, to new generations of activists, including many from Montreal.
Brave the winter's cold and come out to learn more about David, the Weather Underground, and the continuing reality of political imprisonment in the United States.
