We Want Freedom: A Life In The Black Panther Party,Used

In His Youth Mumia Abujamal Helped Found The Philadelphia Branch Of The Black Panther Party, Wrote For The National Newspaper, And Began His Lifelong Work Of Exposing The Violence Of The State As It Manifests In Entrenched Poverty, Endemic Racism, And Unending Police Brutality And Celebrating A Peoples Unending Quest For Freedom. In We Want Freedom, Mumia Combines Personal Experience With Extensive Research To Provide A Compelling History Of The Black Panther Partywhat It Was, Where It Came From, And What Rose From Its Ashes. Mumia Also Pays Special Attention To The U.S. Governments Disruption Of The Organization Through Cointelpro And Similar Operations.While Abujamal Is A Prolific Writer And Probably The Worlds Most Famous Political Prisoner, This Book Is Unlike Any Of Mumias Previous Works. In We Want Freedom, Abujamal Applies His Sharp Critical Faculties To An Examination Of One Of The U.S.S Most Revolutionary And Most Misrepresented Groups. A Subject Previously Explored By Various Historians And Forever Ripe For 'Insider' Accounts, The Black Panther Party Has Not Yet Been Addressed By A Writer With The Wellearned International Acclaim Of Abujamal, Nor With His Unique Combination Of A Powerful, Even Poetic, Voice And An Unsparing Critical Gaze. Abujamal Is Able To Make His Own Black Panther Party Days Come Alive As Well As Help Situate The Organization Within Its Historical Context, A Context That Included Both Great Revolutionary Fervor And Hope, And Great Repression. In This Era, When The Us Patriot Act Dismantles Some Of The Same Rights And Freedoms Violated By The Fbi In Their Attack On The Black Panther Party, The Story Of How The Party Grew And Matured While Combating Such Invasions Is A Welcome And Essential Lesson.