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<H2 class=title><A href="http://www.portersquarebooks.com/event/laura-whitehorn-war">Laura Whitehorn, The War Before</A></H2><SPAN class=submitted></SPAN><SPAN class=taxonomy></SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR>
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<DIV class=event-start><LABEL>Start: </LABEL>Thu, 02/18/2010 - 7:00pm</DIV></DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: small">In 1968, Safiya Bukhari witnessed an NYPD officer harassing a Black Panther for selling the organization’s newspaper on a Harlem street corner. The young pre-med student felt compelled to intervene in defense of the Panther’s First Amendment right; she ended up handcuffed and thrown into the back of a police car. <BR></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: small"><EM>The War Before</EM> traces Bukhari’s lifelong commitment as an advocate for the rights of the oppressed. Following her journey from middle-class student to Black Panther to political prisoner, these writings provide an intimate view of a woman wrestling with the issues of her time—the troubled legacy of the Panthers, misogyny in the movement, her decision to convert to Islam, the incarceration of out spoken radicals, and the families left behind. Her account unfolds with immediacy and passion, showing how the struggles of social justice movements have paved the way for the progress of today.</SPAN> <BR> <BR>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><IMG src="http://www.portersquarebooks.com/files/portersquare/whitehorn.jpg" width=140 height=209> </DIV><BR> <BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: small"><STRONG>Laura Whitehorn</STRONG> has been a political activist since the 1960s. She spent 14 years in prison for the Resistance Conspiracy case. Released in 1999, she lives in New York City. She is now a senior editor at <EM>POZ</EM> magazine.</SPAN> <BR>
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<DIV class=abaproduct-image><A title="The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison & Fighting for Those Left Behind" href="http://www.portersquarebooks.com/node/11659"><IMG title="The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison & Fighting for Those Left Behind" src="http://images.booksense.com/images/books/103/616/FC9781558616103.JPG"></A> </DIV>
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<H2><A href="http://www.portersquarebooks.com/node/11659">The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison & Fighting for Those Left Behind</A> (Paperback) </H2></DIV>
<DIV class=abaproduct-authors>By Safiya Bukhari, Laura Whitehorn, Mumia Abu-Jamal </DIV>
<DIV class=abaproduct-price>$15.95</DIV><STRONG>ISBN-13:</STRONG> 9781558616103<BR><STRONG>Availability:</STRONG> On Our Shelves Now<BR><STRONG>Published:</STRONG> Feminist Press, <SPAN class=date-display-single>02/01/2010</SPAN> <BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> <br /><hr />Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469227/direct/01/' target='_new'>Sign up now.</a></body>
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