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Condizione: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Who will lead America in the years to come? Letters from Young Activists introduces America's bold, exciting, new generation of activists. These diverse authors challenge the common misconception that today's young people are apathetic, shallow, and materialistic. Aged ten to thirty-one, these atheist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, pagan, transgender, heterosexual, bisexual, metrosexual Americans are from every type of background and ethnicity, but are united by their struggle toward a common goal. They are the inheritors of their parents' legacy from the sixties, but also have the imagination and courage to embark on new paths and different directions. In letters addressed to their parents, to past generations, to each other, to the youth of tomorrow and to their future selves, each author articulates his or her vision for the world as they work towards racial, economic, gender, environmental and global justice. As the editors write in their introduction: "From globalization to the war on terrorism and beyond, our generation is compelled to action in the midst of a rapidly changing, and unique political moment Our challenge, and yours, is to live our lives in a way that does not make a mockery of our values.".

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condizione: New. Young activists look back to their parents generation and reflect on the Movement as it was then, and how they have reclaimed and transformed it in today s world.&Uumlber den AutorDan Berger has been involved in movements for.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Who will lead America in the years to come? Letters from Young Activists introduces America's bold, exciting, new generation of activists. These diverse authors challenge the common misconception that today's young people are apathetic, shallow, and materialistic. Aged ten to thirty-one, these atheist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, pagan, transgender, heterosexual, bisexual, metrosexual Americans are from every type of background and ethnicity, but are united by their struggle toward a common goal. They are the inheritors of their parents' legacy from the sixties, but also have the imagination and courage to embark on new paths and different directions. In letters addressed to their parents, to past generations, to each other, to the youth of tomorrow and to their future selves, each author articulates his or her vision for the world as they work towards racial, economic, gender, environmental and global justice. As the editors write in their introduction: "From globalization to the war on terrorism and beyond, our generation is compelled to action in the midst of a rapidly changing, and unique political moment Our challenge, and yours, is to live our lives in a way that does not make a mockery of our values.".

PAPERBACK. Condizione: VG. FIRST PRINTING. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY BERNADINE DOHRN: "MAY 2009, FOR NANCY & WEBER, WHO INSPIRE AND IMAGINE ANOTHER WORLD OF PEACE & JUSTICE.".

Newspaper. 24p., folded tabloid underground newspaper, news, opinion, reports, actions, psychedelia, ads, illustrations, photos, evenly toned, some edgewear and dog-earing, else very good on newsprint. Originally San Francisco Express Times. Cover headline: "Tim Leary. Beyond Acid" with head shot of Tim. Inside: thought piece on Leary's escape from prison the previous week with the assistance of the Weather Underground, as well as Leary's Statement from a POW Camp and Dohrn's Fourth Communication from the Weather Underground on back page; two pages on Ruchell Magee's arraignment within San Quentin, report on Arab guerrillas vs. Israel, essay in defense of sabotage, and centerspread devoted to defending alternative education. Plus usual news and ads of the era.

149 pp.; 25.7 x 17.8 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed 1975 reprint of "Prairie Fire : The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism, Political Statement of the Weather Underground." Offers detailed descriptions of the Weather Underground's goals and belief systems. Includes a text by Bernadine Dohrn, Billy Ayers, Jeff Jones, and Celia Sojourn. Additional text uncredited. Very Good. 8 mm. of soiling to recto., 4 mm. loss to bottom right corner of recto and adjacent 3.2 cm. area of soiling. Light creasing and bumping along bottom edge of publication. Soiling of verso with 9.5 cm. of moisture soiling carrying through to pages. Stamped with May Day books contact information on inside of verso. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Used. 3 inch tear to front cover on spine. Generally pretty creased cover. One of 1000 copies printed in Boston, August 1974, by friends of the Underground.

Large 8vo, pp. 152. Bound in red wraps, printed in black with the cover text printed inside a black rule. Laid in is a mimeographed sheet from the Phila. Prairie Fire Distributing Committee looking for people to help distribute this book. Dohrn and Ayers were co-leaders of the radical group Weather Underground, which sought to establish communism and fight imperialism in the United States. A spin off of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), the "Weathermen" chose of a more confrontatble politics at the height of the unpopular war in Viet Nam. Reprint edition with "$1.50" on the first cover.

Soft cover. Condizione: Poor. July 1974. Page 5/6 loose and front cover has substantial tear about 5" along the spine edge, could be taped repaired or better. Prairie Fire was a 188-page political manifesto published by the Weather Underground in 1974, articulating the radical splinter group's ideology, and endorsing revolutionary violence. "Prairie Fire" was distributed in radical bookstores, food coops, headshops, on college campuses and many other places that movement activists met. It was met with a combination of strong emotions throughout the Left. Ultimately, the ideological arguments articulated in "Prairie Fire" led to a new split in the Weather Underground, with some gravitating toward the "Prairie Fire Collective," which favored mass-based, above-ground revolutionary politics, and the "May 19th Communist Organization," which remained underground and pulled off the infamous Brinks robbery in 1981. In 1974 when "Prairie Fire" was written the Weather Underground had realized the shortcoming of there underground tactics in the previously stated sense. So "Prairie Fire", called for the creation of both mass and clandestine, or underground, organizations. The clandestine organizations would be in charge of the development and early creation of a people's militia, as well as carrying out previous underground tactics, and raising consciousness. That mass organization would support and encourage armed action to the mass of the public, in a more legitimized fashion. Under this ideology The Weather Underground could facilitate a far larger mass fallowing, while still advocating for a violent militant revolution. The name for the manifesto was derived from the writings of Chinese Communist revolutionary, Mao Zedong. In his "Little Red Book," he wrote, "a single spark can set a prairie fire" as an analogy for revolution. The manifesto encourages a mix of mass-organizing and clandestine revolutionary violence. "Never disassociate mass struggle from revolutionary violence," the author's argued. "To leave people unprepared to fight the state," they said, "is to seriously mislead them about the inevitable nature of what lies ahead." Abbie Hoffman publicly praised Prairie Fire and believed every American should be given a copy. The manifesto's influence initiated the formation of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee in several American cities. Hundreds of above-ground activists helped further the new political vision of the Weather Underground. Essentially, after the 1969 failure of the Days of Rage to involve thousands of youth in massive street fighting, Weather renounced most of the Left and decided to operate as an isolated underground group. The decision to build only an underground group eventually caused the Weather Underground to lose sight of its commitment to mass struggle and made future alliances with the mass movement difficult and tenuous. By 1974, Weather had recognized this shortcoming and in Prairie Fire detailed a different strategy for the 1970s which demanded both mass and clandestine organizations. The role of the clandestine organization would be to build the "consciousness of action" and prepare the way for the development of a people's militia. Concurrently, the role of the mass movement (i.e., above-ground Prairie Fire collective) would include support for, and encouragement of, armed action. Such an alliance would, according to Weather, "help create the 'sea' for the guerrillas to swim in". The Prairie Fire Collective faction started to surrender to the authorities from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. The remaining Weather Underground members continued to attack U.S. institutions.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Communications Co. edition. 186, [6]pp. Illustrated from photographs and drawings. Maps. Decorated orange and red wrappers with $1.50 printed price. Top corner clipped on title page, title inked on the spine with inked notation (plus 25 cent donation) on front wrap, clear tape along spine and corners of front cover, very good. Political manifesto.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Large octavo. 152, [2]pp. Illustrated from photographs and drawings. Maps. Decorated printed red wrappers. Small stain on early pages, a few pages and wrappers with creasing, modest wear on the yapped edges, a very good copy. Political manifesto, reprinted many times.

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First edition. Large octavo. 146, [2]pp. Illustrated from photographs and drawings. Maps. Decorated printed red wrappers. Very near fine. Political manifesto, reprinted many times.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Reprint. "Here is PRAIRIE FIRE, our political ideology - a strategy for anti-imperialism and revolution inside the imperial US. This paper has been collectively adopted as the political statement of the Weather Underground. PRAIRIE FIRE is written to communist-minded revolutionaries, independent organizers and anti-imperialists. It is written as an argument against those who oppose action and hold back the struggle." - Opening statement by Bernadine Dohrn, Billy (Bill) Ayers, Jeff Jones and Celia Sojourn. pp. [6], 7- 186, [6]. Frequently illustrated with grainy black and white reproductions of photos. Includes list of books studied in the preparation of this work. Chapters include: Impressions of U.S. History; Imperialism in Crisis - The Third World; Imperialism in Crisis - The Home Front; Against the Common Enemy; and more. "We are a guerrilla organization. We are communist women and men, underground in the United States for more than four years. Our intention is to disrupt the empire. to incapacitate it. to forge an underground, a clandestine political organization engaged in every form of struggle, protected from the eyes and weapons of the state, a base against repression, to accumulate lessons, experience and constant practice, a base from which to attack." - page 1 of an earlier edition. Prior to publication the Weather Underground had already bombed multiple government buildings. Twenty-one years after publication, Ayers and Dohrn hosted a meeting at which Illinois state Sen. Alice Palmer introduced Barack Obama as her chosen successor. The rest is history. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. Sunning to spine. A sound vintage copy of this work, the influence of which dominates headlines almost fifty years after publication . 8.5" x 5.5".; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Prairie Fire, Politics, Revolutionary Politics, Anti-Imperialism, Weather Underground, Revolution, Radical Left, Communism, United States, USA, Bombings, Alice Palmer, Bernadine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Jeff Jones, Celia Sojourn, Barack Obama, Barry Soetoro, An.

Early printing (same year as first), signed by Bernadine Dohrn and inscribed by Bill Ayers on the title page "With hope for a world at peace and in balance, Bill Ayers", and scarce thus. Dohrn and Ayers were co-leaders of the radical group Weather Underground, which sought to establish communism and fight imperialism in the United States through any means necessary, including violent revolution. Originally called the Weathermen, after Bob Dylan's lyrics "you don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows", the Weather Underground began in 1969 as an offshoot from the Students for a Democratic Society. Prairie Fire is their manifesto, and the year following its publication, "the group had claimed credit for 25 bombings - including the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, the California Attorney General's office, and a New York City police station" (FBI). The FBI vastly overestimated the size of the group, and dedicated a large amount of resources to capturing its leaders; Dohrn was among the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives throughout the early 1970s. Ayers and Dohrn explain in their introduction to Prairie Fire, which is named after the Chairman Mao letter "A Single Spark can Start a Prairie Fire", that their manifesto "is based on a belief that the duty of a revolutionary is to make the revolution. This is not an abstraction. It means that the struggle and risk and hard work and adversity will become a way of life, that the only certainty will be constant change, that the only possibilities are victory or death". "In an 186-page book called Prairie Fire - clandestinely printed by Weather, and clandestinely distributed with great success, despite the FBI - the leadership concluded that the only way to mount a revolution in the United States was to win over the American working class. The Prairie Fire Organizing Committee was founded to prepare the way. But Prairie Fire set off an ideological struggle within the Weather organization itself, one that culminated in the spring of 1976 in the triumph of the more radical wing, which insisted on continuing the guerrilla war. From late 1976 onward, those who favored an aboveground mass organization - including Jones, Dohrn, and Ayers - either drifted away from Weatherman or were expelled. The charge was 'rightist deviationism,' that is, moderation" (Eckstein). The distributor's advertisement slip, which calls for new recruits to join the group, has been taped to the title page of this copy. Arthur M. Eckstein, "How the Weather Underground Failed at Revolution and Still Changed the World", Time, 2 Nov. 2016; FBI, "Weather Underground Bombings", accessible online. Octavo. Illustrations throughout. Original red wrappers lettered in black. A couple of chips and closed tears at front wrapper, contents toned, else clean. A very good copy indeed.