Daniel McGowan

Daniel McGowan is an environmental rights activist currently serving a 7 year prison sentence for his involvement in a series of arsons attributed to the Earth Liberation Front. He was transferred to a CMU in Marion Illinois, a facility set up to house those who are facing terrorism charges. A CMU is a Communications Management Unit, a prison within a prison, where a person is on constant lockdown, their movements highly restricted. In Exposing Little Guantanamo, Daniel describes his experiences in the CMU, and how it differs from being in a "regular" Federal Corrections Institution. CMUs are the domestic equivalent to Guantanamo Bay, the US Government's solution to the closing of the infamous foreign prison. This zine is a firsthand account of this newest development in the "war on terror".… (lisätietoja)

"In the memoirs of former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, he makes the
rather extraordinary statement that in the creation of Israel, the 'legend' of
Deir Yassin was 'worth half a dozen battalions.' For many, the meaning is
unclear. What was Deir Yassin? Why did the prime minister, the former leader of
the Irgun militia in pre-Israel Palestine, think it was so important?
For Palestinians, the 1948 massacre by Irgun and allied Stern Gang soldiers of
more than 200 residents of Deir Yassin, an tiny village near Jerusalem,
resonates sharply as a focal point of history. The dead victims - almost all
women, children and old men - became irrefutable evidence of the consequences
for Palestinians of the creation of the new Jewish state. The cry 'Deir Yassin,
Deir Yassin,' echoes across the towns and villages and olive groves of
Palestine, whirling thousands of families in to a terrified flight to escape
the horror of a similar fate." --back cover… (lisätietoja)