Ashanti Alston at Love and Struggle book event in Philly, 4/13/12
Channel: Suzy Subways
Date: 19/05/2012

On April 13, 2012, anarchist former political prisoner and former Black Liberation Army member Ashanti Alston spoke at the book launch for Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond, by David Gilbert, who is currently a political prisoner. The event, at Goldilocks Gallery, featured speakers, a short video tribute to David and the book, and a showing of a quilt made by imprisoned community members at SCI-Chester.

Order David Gilbert's book, Love and Struggle, at https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=370

Here is a quote from Ashanti's talk:

 When joining the Black Liberation Army, the first task that we were assigned was to free political prisoners.... We had to be brave enough, and, I will say, crazy enough to do it. Harriet Tubman had to be crazy enough to do it. You cannot keep thinking about "I might get killed, I might die." It is a time to act.... Even if you're scared, you know it has to be done. And it don't always have to be the grand action. It could be knocking on your next-door neighbor's door. Or your coworkers, and starting that kind of conversation that helps move them from a space of indifference or apathy or fear, to one of the courage to begin to take back their lives. 
—Ashanti Alston