28 Days of Black Liberation
The GDC celebrates the Black liberation struggle and draws inspiration and lessons from its proud history in our struggle for the new world we are fighting for. In February as we celebrate Black revolutionary culture, political prisoners, international figures and struggles, and moments in direct action that guide us in our continued, collective fight for liberation!
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Data Centers
28 Days of Black Liberation 2026 series: Week 2 The University of Michigan & Los Alamos National Lab (which develops nuclear weapons & resources for “national security”) are moving their data center from Ann Arbor to Ypsilanti Twp. They want to use the Willow Run manufacturing complex by West Willow, a…
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The Cuban Revolution
28 Days of Black Liberation 2026 series: Week 1 During the month of February GDC has historically honored the legacy of the Black Liberation Struggle. This year we’re expanding our program — 28 Days of Black Liberation — to the months of January and March. We seek to highlight the…
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Solidarity Protests Continue
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Different forms of prisoner resistance and repression continue as long as the prison system stands. The biggest recent instance of prisoner unrest/repression in Michigan was at Kinross CF in the Upper Peninsula, Sept 9-10, 2016. The uprising was part of the nationwide Prison…
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Attica’s Legacy
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Over the course of the last week we’ve been looking at the Long Attica Revolt and Orisanmi Burton’s book Tip of the Spear. We’ve tried to give a glimpse of the story – but we’ve barely broke the surface. Tip of the Spear…
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Attica as a Gender War
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series The fantasy of the hypermasculine, sexually potent Black man is a cornerstone of Amerikkkan whiteness, laid by the long history of lynching in this backward country. After being hanged, the victim’s genitals swell — an erection, often called “angel lust.” The eroticized corpse…
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The Attica Commune
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Over the course of the Long Attica Revolt, imprisoned comrades confronted the dehumanizing conditions and horrific treatment of the carceral system. Tip of the Spear encourages us to understand that paired with this demand to be treated as humans was a demand for…
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The Long Attica revolt
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Between Oct 1970 and the Attica Rebellion Sept 1971 the carceral system of NY was shaken by a series of escalating rebellions where incarcerated rebels fought back, captured hostages, communicated revolutionary ideas and vision, developed organization, and participated in abolitionist world building in…
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Setting the Stage for Revolt: The Context of the Long Attica Revolt
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Orisanmi Burton refers to prison as war. And prisons were only one facet of the ongoing war during this period. The Long Attica Revolt took place against a backdrop of international anti-colonial struggle across Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia. In the…
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Exploring the Long Attica Revolt
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series For the final week of our 28 Days of Black Liberation program we will be looking at the Long Attica Revolt and the role of prisoners in the Black Liberation Struggle using Orisanmi Burton’s book Tip of the Spear. During spring of 2024…
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Housing Then and Now – From 1947-2025
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series In the roughly 80 years since the Hickman case, not much has changed. We read the descriptions of housing conditions in the poor, Black neighborhoods of Chicago in the 1940s – from caving ceilings to pests. Through our tenant organizing, our canvassing and…