Orisanmi Burton
@orisanmi
Author of Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression & the Long Attica Revolt
Lots of great books available for purchase from @Workshops4Gaza, including Tip of the Spear. All proceeds support the Sameer Abu Salim Tent Initiative in Gaza. …n-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/wo…
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1/ Friends! Here’s another matching donation campaign, this time up to $2500 - All proceeds will be sent to the @sameerproject South Campaign, which is now operating in emergency mode, purchasing whatever provisions they can source. …n-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g-p…
1/ Friends! Here’s another matching donation campaign, this time up to $2500 - All proceeds will be sent to the @sameerproject South Campaign, which is now operating in emergency mode, purchasing whatever provisions they can source. …n-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g-p…
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Aid is political. We’ve said this over and over again, and the proof is the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation that kills people every single day who are trying to get aid. Support us: chuffed.org/project/113222… Due to lack of funds, we stopped distributing pots in the North…
This month at TOWARD LIBERATION, we've read Orisanmi Burton's (@orisanmi) TIP OF THE SPEAR. On June 25, he will join us to discuss. In this post, I shared some thoughts on what the book has meant to me. Full post plus register to join us on 6/25 here: towardliberation.com/p/on-violence-…
Our next #TowardLiberation pick is here—and it’s one we’ve been anticipating for months. We’re reading Tip of the Spear by @orisanmi — a transformative look at the Attica Rebellion and the long arc of Black radical resistance. Join us: towardliberation.com/p/june-2025-wh…
Pull up if you will be in NYC on Saturday.
Join us at @AnthologyFilm on May 31 for a double feature screening of GHOST HUNTING and ATTICA. Together, these films interrogate the prison as the ultimate site of extraction and exile in Palestine and the United States alike.
"Burton offers a timely and important framework for how prison rebellions [...] are a method of analyzing and resisting state repression for today’s social movements." Read Ekundayo Igeleke's review of Orisanmi Burton’s "Tip of the Spear" (2023) now. asapjournal.com/review/review-…
Orisanmi Burton’s "Tip of the Spear" uncovers the obscured and radical demands of the inmates who staged the 1971 prison uprising—a world without prisons. thenation.com/article/cultur…
“To take seriously the demands of the prisoners, as @orisanmi does, is to also awaken to another fact: that prisons are a front in an ongoing domestic war between the state and the people it deems as marginal and surplus.” thenation.com/article/cultur…
Sheesh! Thank you @CharlotteERosen, for authoring such a thoughtful and appropriately militant review of Tip of the Spear in the @thenation.
reviewed @orisanmi's "Tip of the Spear" for @thenation, which is as generative and clarifying as everyone says it is: thenation.com/article/cultur…
Tap in to @BLM_edia to check out my conversation with @IMIXWHATILIKE & Hiram Rivera about the legacy of Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama on the birthday of these revolutionary ancestors. @KOCHIMAMAA youtube.com/live/ECWr6UEDz…
Tap in to @BLM_edia to check out my conversation with @IMIXWHATILIKE & Hiram Rivera about the legacy of Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama on the birthday of these revolutionary ancestors. @KOCHIMAMAA youtube.com/live/ECWr6UEDz…
Essential listening...
Tap in to @BLM_edia to check out my conversation with @IMIXWHATILIKE & Hiram Rivera about the legacy of Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama on the birthday of these revolutionary ancestors. @KOCHIMAMAA youtube.com/live/ECWr6UEDz…
Tap in to @BLM_edia to check out my conversation with @IMIXWHATILIKE & Hiram Rivera about the legacy of Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama on the birthday of these revolutionary ancestors. @KOCHIMAMAA youtube.com/live/ECWr6UEDz…
"Following setbacks in court, the Kanien’kehá:ka Kahnistensera are seeking help from the Coroner’s office in their fight against McGill University after obtaining a report they say reveals new evidence of human remains. . ." easterndoor.com/article/mohawk…
Update: “The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear an appeal from Indigenous elders who were seeking greater oversight over a university construction site in Montreal where they suspect unmarked graves of children are located.” globalnews.ca/news/10962093/…
📢📢📢Pull up if you will be in NYC May 16 - 18, 2025. We'll be uplifting the revolutionary archival labor of Yuri Kochiyama and discussing the lessons her praxis offers for combating fascism : yurikochiyama.com/claiming-our-s…
