Fred Ho is a jazz baritone saxophonist, composer, bandleader, playwright, writer, and social activist. He has written and produced many books and albums, including most recently the books Diary of a Radical Cancer Warrior (2011) and Raw Extreme Manifesto (2012), and the albums Snake Eaters and The Year of the Tiger. He is one of the founders of Scientific Soul Sessions. More information about Fred’s incredible career can be found at http://www.bigredmediainc.com
Maroon the Implacable: The Collected Writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz
SKU: 9781604860597
Author: Russell Maroon Shoatz • Editors: Fred Ho and Quincy Saul • Foreword by Chuck D • Afterword by Matt Meyer and Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge
Publisher: PM Press/Ecosocialist Horizons
ISBN: 9781604860597
Published: 4/2013
Format: Paperback, ePub, PDF, mobi
Size: 6 x 9
Page count: 312
Subjects: Politics-Activism, African American, Political Science
Praise
“This book, Maroon the Implacable, is that very funky instruction manual on how to make revolution against Imperialist America.”
—Amiri Baraka, former Poet Laureate of New Jersey
“If the Great Dismal Swamp is no longer a refuge, nevertheless the
message of the Maroons lives on, and Russell Maroon Shoatz is today its
untamed voice. Free Maroon the Implacable!”
—Hakim Bey, author of TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone
“At the core of the book is the theme of marronage—the will
to escape from conditions of enslavement at any cost. This is what
Russell Maroon Shoatz has done, not physically, but in the world of
ideas by escaping from the rigid patriarchal framework he inherited and
revaluing and promoting the role of women in the history of liberation.
This book is a document of this transformation carried out against
tremendous odds and told with searing honesty.”
—Silvia Federici, author of Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
“Russell Maroon Shoats’s life reads like fiction composed by Victor
Hugo. But this Jean Valjean for our time is the living truth, and his
writings are a beacon for a new, revolutionary age. What a treasure has
here been uncovered!”
—Joel Kovel, author ofThe Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World
“Though he’s been inside for forty of his sixty-nine years on earth,
the problems he raises about the justice movement are amazingly up to
date. Above all, he thinks organizationally… He is always trying to
work out what to do. Where he looks for answers is the only sensible
place: not in ideas but in the historical experience of the grassroots.”
—Selma James, author of Sex, Race, and Class: The Perspective of Winning
“For twenty-seven years I visited four prisoners, one of whom was
Russell Shoatz, who we called Maroon. From him I always got a lesson in
politics that fortified me and made me understand just what was
happening in our country and what I should be doing about it. He trusted
the truth of ‘power to the people,’ and it kept him focused and
hopeful. His body was incarcerated but his mind soared. My mentor!”
—Frances Goldin, publisher of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Barbara Kingsolver, and Adrienne Rich
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