Hauling Up the Morning / Izando la Mañana: Writings & Art by Political Prisoners & Prisoners of War in the U.S.

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Bilingual (English/Spanish) anthology of writings and visual art by approximately 80 U.S.-held political prisoners and prisoners of war, edited by Tim Blunk and Raymond Luc Levasseur — themselves political prisoners at the time (the Resistance Conspiracy and Ohio 7 cases). Published in 1990 by Red Sea Press / Jacobin Books. The book opens with the declaration: "This book is the answer to a lie. The lie is that there are no political prisoners in the United States." Contributors include Mumia Abu-Jamal, Assata Shakur, Leonard Peltier, Oscar López Rivera, Carlos Alberto Torres, Dylcia Pagan, Sundiata Acoli, Susan Rosenberg, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Laura Whitehorn, David Gilbert, Alan Berkman, Bashir Hameed, Geronimo ji Jaga (Pratt), Ojore Lutalo, Sekou Odinga, Mutulu Shakur, Russell Maroon Shoatz, and many others — drawn from the Black Liberation Army, Puerto Rican independentista, AIM, Plowshares, Resistance Conspiracy, and Ohio 7 cases, with foreword and contextual essays by William Kunstler and others. Definitive primary-source compilation for the post-COINTELPRO U.S. political-prisoner generation.