City Lights, Locus Magazine, and PM Press present The Outspoken and the Incendiary: A Literary Celebration of the Life and…
Diana Block
Abolitionist Fantasies: Revisiting the Fictional 2020 of My Novel
By Diana BlockAbolition Journal October 21st, 2020 “Street art, George Floyd protest, Minneapolis, MN, June, 2020” by Renoir Gaither In…
From Freedom Summer to Black August
Why civil rights activists should champion a little-known prisoner holiday By Dan BergerDisssent MagazineAugust 19th, 2014 This year marks the…
Two Wings of the Same Bird – Puerto Rico, Cuba, Hurricanes and Political Prisoners
By Diana BlockOriginally posted on CounterpunchFebruary 14th, 2018 Photo by Rob Oo | CC BY 2.0 Six months after Oscar…
Reflections on a Delegation to Imprisoned Palestine
By Diana BlockOriginally Posted on CounterpunchMay 13th, 2016 Emory Douglas, BPP Minister of Culture, with Mukhles Burgal and his son.…
Rasmea and Oscar: Resisting the Criminalization of Freedom Fighting
By Diana BlockOriginally Posted on CounterpunchAugust 29th, 2017 Oscar Lopez Rivera and Rasmea Odeh. On May 18, 2017 Oscar López…
No Sanctuary for Palestinian Scholarship
Originally published on Counterpunchby Diana BlockMay 10th, 2017 Edward Said mural. Lead Artists: Fayeq Oweis & Susan Greene. Battleground San…
Reverberations of Underground Activism
By Dan BergerTruthoutOctober 14th, 2015 The underground is an elaborate metaphor for the many subterranean ways of living, thinking and…
Clandestine Occupations on Counterpunch
By Ron JacobsCounterpunchOctober 23rd, 2015 The concept of underground political activism in the United States is currently a remote fantasy.…
Puerto Rican Independence Activist Diana Block Discusses Her New Novel
By Victoria LawBitch MagazineNovember 4th, 2015 In 1981, Diana Block joined a small clandestine group of white people who were…