Location
This event will include music, speakers and is a book launch for David Gilbert's new book "Love and Struggle: My life in the SDS, Weather Underground and Beyond
Bands:
Police Funeral (Punk)
Justin Dea (Folk)
Jeremy Owen (Folk)
Speakers:
- Representative from the Revolutionary Communist Party who will be speaking about GAMMA, the newly formed anti-anarchist and anti-communist police unit in Montreal
- Jaggi Singh (TBC), who will be speaking about political prisoners and David Gilbert
- A member of Books 2 Prisoners who will be speaking about the work they do supporting prisoners and working for prisoner justice
$7, or pay what you can
$20 with a copy of, "Love and Struggle" by David Gilbert
This event is a fund raiser for Books 2 Prisoners and Red Aide/Secours Rouge No one will be turned away
Books will be on sale for $15 - $25
Books 2 prisoners is also asking for people to bring new and/or gently used books which we will be sending to prisoners.
This event is also a fundraiser for Books 2 Prisoners and Canadian Red Aide/Secours Rouge du Canada.
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More info about David Gilbert and his new book, "Love and Struggle".
A nice Jewish boy from suburban Boston-hell, an Eagle Scout!-David Gilbert arrived at Columbia University just in time for the explosive Sixties. 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 "Weatherman." And he was among the last to emerge, in captivity, after the disaster of the 1981 Brinks robbery, an attempted expropriation that resulted in four deaths and long prison terms. In this extraordinary memoir, written from the maximum-security prison where he has lived for almost thirty years, David Gilbert tells the intensely personal story of his own Long March from liberal to radical to revolutionary.
Today a beloved and admired mentor to a new generation of activists, he assesses with rare humor, with an understanding stripped of illusions, and with uncommon candor the errors and advances, terrors and triumphs of the Sixties and beyond. It's a battle that was far from won, but is still not lost: the struggle to build a new world, and the love that drives that effort. A cautionary tale and a how-to as well, Love and Struggle is a book as candid, as uncompromising, and as humane as its author.
