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Setting Sights: Histories and Reflections on Community Armed Self-Defense Edited by scott crow Essays by scott crow—“Liberatory Community Armed Self-Defense: Approaches toward a Theory,” “On Violence, Disasters, Defense and Transformation: Setting Sights for the Future,” “Sometimes Stories Reveal Themselves,” “Introduction: As Rare as Flowers Rising through Concrete: Why Liberatory Community Armed Self-Defense?”—are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License 2017 All other essays © 2018 by the named respective authors. This edition © 2018 PM Press PM Press PO Box 23912 Oakland, CA 94623 www.pmpress.org Cover design by John Yates / www.stealworks.com Cover photo by Leon Alesi / www.leonalesi.com Interior design by briandesign ISBN: 978–1–62963–444–9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017942918 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the USA by the Employee Owners of ThomsonShore in Dexter, Michigan. www.thomsonshore.com This book is dedicated to those who have exercised power for collective liberation on their terms by any means necessary. Dream the future Know your history Organize your people Fight to win Contents PREFACE scott crow FOREWORD Ward Churchill INTRODUCTION scott crow ANALYSIS AND THEORY Liberatory Community Armed Self-Defense: Approaches toward a Theory scott crow Politicians Love Gun Control: Reframing the Debate around Gun Ownership Neal Shirley/North Carolina Piece Corps Gun Rights Are Civil Rights Kristian Williams and Peter Little Notes for a Critical Theory of Community Self-Defense Chad Kautzer Three-Way Fight: Revolutionary Anti-Fascism and Armed Self-Defense J. Clark The Liberation Gun: Symbolic Aspects of the Black Panther Party Ashanti Alston Desire Armed: An Introduction to Armed Resistance and Revolution Western Unit Tactical Defense Caucus Mischievous Elves: Defending a Broader Concept of the Self Leslie James Pickering Antagonistic Violence: Approaches to the Armed Struggle in Urban Environments from an Anarchist Perspective Gustavo Rodríguez Ten Ways to Advance Liberatory Community Armed Self-Defense North Carolina Piece Corps HISTORIES OF THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES Russian Anarchists and the Civil War, 1917–1922 Paul Avrich Not Only a Right but a Duty: The Industrial Workers of the World Take Up the Gun in Centralia, Washington, 1919 Shawn Stevenson The People Armed: Women in the 1930s Spanish Revolution Anti-Fascist Action UK Schwarze Scharen: Anarcho-Syndicalist Militias in Germany, 1929–1933 Helge Döhring and Gabriel Kuhn Other Stories from the Civil Rights Movement: A Spectrum of Community Defense Lamont Carter and scott crow Negroes with Guns: Oral History Interview with Mabel Williams David Cecelski Self-Respect, Self-Defense, and Self-Determination: A Presentation Kathleen Cleaver and Mabel Williams with an introduction by Angela Y. Davis Repression Breeds Resistance: The Black Liberation Army and the Radical Legacy of the Black Panther Party Akinyele Omowale Umoja Drifting from the Mainstream: A Chronicle of Early Anti-rape Organizing and WASP Nikki Craft Oka Crisis of 1990: Indigenous Armed Self-Defense and Organization in Canada Gord Hill We Refuse to Die: An Interview with Dennis Banks scott crow Ampo Camp and the American Indian Movement: Native Resistance in the U.S. Pacific Northwest Michele Rene Weston Mujeres en Acción: Indigenous Women’s Activism within the EZLN Laura Gallery Twelve Women in the Twelfth Year: January 1994 Subcomandante Marcos On Violence, Disasters, Defense, and Transformation: Setting Sights for the Future scott crow Gut Check Time: Violence and Resistance after Hurricane Katrina Suncere Shakur Breaking the Curse of Forgotten Places in Mexico Simón Sedillo Feminism, Guns, and Anarchy in the Twenty-First Century: A Southern U.S. Story Mo Karnage Defending Communities, Demanding Autonomy: Self-Defense Militias in Venezuela’s Barrios George Ciccariello-Maher Toward a Redneck Revolt Dave Strano Defense in Dallas in the Twenty-First Century: An Interview with Members of the Huey P. Newton Gun Club Interview by scott crow Trial by Fire: Democracy and Self-Defense in Rojava Alexander Reid Ross and Ian LaVallee Bibliography Glossary Acknowledgments Contributors Index
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