The new issue of Turning the Tide: Journal of Anti-Racist Action, Research & Education is going to the printer tonight and will be out tomorrow in time for the second anniversary of Occupy LA, and for its own 25th anniversary (Volume 1 Number 1 came out in October 1988!).
There will be a mailing party Tuesday and Wednesday to send out nearly 1700 copies to prisoners around CA and the US, and another batch to subscribers. Subscriptions, BTW, are $16 for a year, payable to Anti-Racist Action, PO Box 1055, Culver City CA 90232. They help subsidize the increasingly expensive prisoner mailing. Call 323-636-7388 or email antiracistaction...@yahoo.com if you can help with the mailing. This issue includes reviews of the Netflix show "Orange is the New Black" by Susie Day and of "The Red Army Faction: A Documentary History," volumes 1 and 2, by TTT founder Michael Novick of ARA-LA/People Against Racist Terror. Also featured is a testimonial and forward look by Pelican Bay hunger striker Mutope Duguma, about the prospects for action on the 5 core demands by the state legislature. News coverage includes a Native American action against Nazis in North Dakota, a Black-Brown unity march in Compton, and reports on teacher strikes in Mexico and Greece and a strike by Triqui and Mixteco migrant farm-workers in Washington State. There is also news about the upcoming 25th anniversary Turning the Tide anti-racist Awards Event, Saturday Dec.7, 2013 at the West Side Peace Center, 3916 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City. Mumia Abu-Jamal contributes a commentary on Trayvon Martin and the media, and ex-political-prisoner James Kilgore exposes the true nature of the so-called "prison industrial complex". The Sex Worker Outreach Project challenges the left to confront its prejudices in "Sex Work and Social Change." Also in the issue, an analysis from Comrade Malik of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party (Prison Chapter) of oppressive moves against their Minister of Defense, Kevin Rashid Johnson, by prison authorities in VA, OR and TX. In a departure from recent past issues, this one is also chock full of graphics. And there's an order form for the new Anti-Racist Action Benefit Compilation CD, which includes songs from Tom Morello, Oi Polloi and many others. (CDs are $10 + $3 postage and handling -- $13 total -- to Anti-Racist Action at the above address).
