{"product_id":"finally-got-the-news-the-printed-legacy-of-the-u-s-radical-left-1970-1979","title":"Finally Got the News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFinally Got the News\u003c\/em\u003e uncovers the hidden legacy of the radical Left of the 1970s, a decade when vibrant social movements challenged racism, imperialism, patriarchy, and capitalism. It combines written contributions from movement participants with original printed materials--from pamphlets to posters, flyers to newspapers--to tell this politically rich and little-known story.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe dawn of the 1970s saw an absolute explosion of interest in revolutionary ideas and activism. Young people radicalized by the antiwar movement became anti-imperialists, veterans of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements increasingly identified with communism and Pan-Africanism, and women were organizing for autonomy and liberation. While these movements may have different roots, there was also an incredible overlapping and intermingling of activists and ideologies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese diverse movements used printed materials as organizing tools in every political activity, creating a sprawling and remarkable array of printing styles, techniques, and formats. Through the lens of printed materials we can see the real nuts and bolts of revolutionary organizing in an era when thousands of young revolutionaries were attempting to put their beliefs into practice in workplaces and neighborhoods across the U.S.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrad Duncan\u003c\/strong\u003e is an activist and a union library worker who has been collecting printed materials related to social protest for twenty years. His work as a collector focuses on the radical movements and liberation struggles of the sixties and seventies, some of which can be seen on his popular blog, The R. F. Kampfer Revolutionary Literature Archive. In 2014 his archive was the focus of an exhibition titled \"Power to the Vanguard: Original Printed Materials from Revolutionary Movements Around the World, 1963-1987\" at Trinosophes in Detroit, Michigan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe mission of \u003cstrong\u003eInterference Archive\u003c\/strong\u003e is to explore the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in an open stacks archival collection, publications, a study center, and public programs, all of which encourage critical and creative engagement with the rich history of social movements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKazembe Balagun\u003c\/strong\u003e is the North American Project Manager for the Rosa Luxemberg Stiftung in New York. He contributed \"We Be Reading Marx Where We From: Socialism and the Black Freedom Struggle\" to the book \u003cem\u003eImagine: Living in a Socialist USA \u003c\/em\u003e(Harper Perennial, 2014).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/strong\u003e teaches Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington Bothell, is an antiprison activist, and the author of \u003cem\u003eCaptive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era\u003c\/em\u003e (UNC Press, 2014).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohanna Brenner\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Emeritus Professor of Women's Studies\/Sociology at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. 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