“We are an honorable people – can you say the same?” (1973)
This document was written by the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy in 1973. It states their solidarity with the occupation of Wounded Knee. It is written for the United States government. It addresses…
Letter to President Washington (1790)
This document is a letter to President George Washington from Chiefs and Counsellors of the Seneca Nation – Big Tree, Cornplanter, and Half-Town. In this letter, the Chiefs and Counsellors address vio…
Resistance #4 by ELF
The publication Resistance featured the ELF three times. This second feature tells the arrest of Josh Harper, among other stories and statements by the ELF.
Resistance #3 by ELF (2000)
The publication Resistance featured the ELF three times. This first feature tells the story of Craig Rosebraugh at his Grand Jury hearing in Spring of 2000.
Democracy is Nothing if it is not Dangerous by Carl Oglesby (1965)
Carl Oglesby was the president of SDS from 1965 to 1966. He gave this speech in response to an editorial that criticized the SDS for “welcoming” communisits.
Communique 4 From The Weather Underground(1970)
This communication from the Weather Underground was published on Sept 15, 1970 and explains how they helped political prisoner Dr. Timothy Leary escape.
Communique 3 From The Weather Underground(1970)
This communication from the Weather Underground was published on July 26, 1970 and celebrates the anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.
Communique 1 From The Weather Underground (1970)
This communication from the Weather Underground was published on May 21,1970 and declares war on the United States of America.
Weatherman edited by Harold Jacobs (1970)
This book details the founding of the Weather Underground, as well as strategies for accomplishing their goals.
You Do Need A Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows by Shin’ya Ono (1969)
“What I would like to go into here is how the Chicago action, and the Weatherman logic behind it, made, and still makes, compelling sense…”
Brochure by the Weather Underground (1969)
This is an organizing pamphlet written by the Weather Underground for a November 15, 1969 anti-war demonstration.
Let Us Shape the Future by Carl Oglesby (1965)
On November 27, 1965, the new president of Students for a Democratic Society, Carl Oglesby, gave a response to Paul Potter’s speech of the previous April.
Human Rights and Refugee Protest against Immigration Detention: Refugees’ Struggle for Recognition as Human by Lucy Fiske (2016)
The fact of protest was a rejection of a powerless state, a way for detained refugees to experience their own agency and, with it, restoration of some of the “essential characteristics of human life”…
A Critical Phenomonology of Solitary Confinement by Lisa Guenther (2013)
In this introduction to her book Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives, Guenther defines soiltary confinement as a kind of social death, looking at the experience of prisoners in the e…
A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority (1967) by RESIST
This document was written by the group RESIST, which was a collective group formed in response to the growing unrest in the US surrounding the Vietnam War. It was disseminated by Marcus Raskin, Dr. Be…
The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche (1887)
This book by Nietzsche consists of a preface and three treatises that trace the evolution of morality, specifically with a view towards Christianity and Judiasm.
One Fine Day by Klaas Bense (2011)
The following video is an excerpt that follows Maria Jesus Sanhueza, a student protester during the 2006 Penguin Revolution in Chile.
Temporary Autonomous Zone – Hakim Bey (1985)
Anarchist text by Hakim Bey about creating temporary spaces that elude formal structures of control. From Pirate Utopias to Nomadic Bands, Poetic Terrorism to Ontological Anarchy, Hakim Bey draws on h…
Raise Three Fingers for Democracy (2021)
This website was created by Myanmar artists as a way to unify the global art community in support of the protesters in Myanmar
A Terrorist Call for “Building a Red Army” (1970)
Between 1970 and 1998, the Anti-Fascist, Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Imperialism, Communist leftist militia The Red Army Faction was labeled as a terrorist organization in first West Germany, and then unifi…
Soviet Churches and Schools (1919)
Nikolai Bukharin – a Bolshevik revolutionary – discusses the need for not only economic liberation but also spiritual liberation of the working class and its party. He asserts that religion is a detri…