This #BlackAugust we're reading the zine Freeing Assata from Philly Anticap.
In it they discuss the history of the Shakur family, Assata Shakur's daring escape from prison, Russell Maroon Shoatz, the Black Liberation Army, and anti-prison struggles.
https://phlanticap.noblogs.org/zine-freeing-assata/
.pdf available here:
https://phlanticap.noblogs.org/files/2025/04/freeingassatascreen.pdf
The zine also suggests some further reading about Black Anarchism.
Kuwasi Balagoon - A Soldier's Story: Revolutionary Writings by a New Afrikan Anarchist
Juan José Garfia - Adios Prison: Tales of Spectacular Escapes
Santi Elijah Holley - An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created
Assata Shakur - Assata: An Autobiography
Atticus Bagby-Williams and Nsambu Za Suekama - Black Anarchism and the Black Radical Tradition: Moving Beyond Racial Capitalism
Russell 'Maroon' Shoatz - I am Maroon
and
Maroon the Implacable: The Collected Writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz
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