This website is devoted to Dan Berger's writings and work. On the site you'll find articles I've written, information about my books, and ways to plug into a range of political work I've been involved with or support. 

 

Besides the writing, I'd like to call your attention to the efforts to free the San Francisco 8 case and other U.S. political prisoners, the work to build a world without walls, and the struggle for Puerto Rican independence. In Philadelphia, the Coalition to Save the Libraries continues to engage in some inspiring grassroots organizing.

 

It's been a busy few months for writing. I published an article in volume 3, number 1 of the Journal for the Study of Radicalism called "Rescuing Civil Rights From Black Power: Collective Memory and Saving the State in Twenty-First Century Prosecutions of 1960s-Era Cases." Check it out here. With my friend and colleague Riley Snorton, I organized a symposium on the media reform movement, which appeared in the International Journal of Communication. My article is called "Defining Democracy: Coalition Politics and the Struggle for Media Reform." Check it out here (to go straight to the pdf version) or here (to go to the symposium overall; scroll down). Elsewhere in the world of lefty academic journals, I published a review of Afflicted Powers (Retort) and a review of Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour (Peniel Joseph ) in Socialism and Democracy volume 23, number 1.

 

I also wrote a 50-page introduction to Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners, edited by Matt Meyer. The article is a sweeping history of the many U.S. movements that havehad political prisoners in the past 40 years, ranging from the Black liberation movement and white anti-imperialists to Puerto Rican and Chicano independence activists, revolutionary pacifists to radical environmentalists. It is the first such widescale synthesis published that I know of, so check it out and let me know what you think. Finally, together with my friend Chris Dixon, I put together a roundtable for issue 8 of Upping the Anti. The roundtable interviews four revolutionary study groups in the United States as part of an effort to showcase the different political and organizational models that groups arecurrently putting forward. So be sure to order a copy of the journal!

 

Coming soon(ish): my friend Joshua Kahn Russell and I designed a Celebrate People's History poster about the Israeli anti-Zionist group Matzpen, a couple more book reviews and academic journal articles, and a book co-edited with Daniel Burton-Rose about 1970s social movements! 

 

 Also, I'm very happy to report that many of the contents of ONWARD , the anarchist newspaper Rob Augman and I co-edited for two and a half years starting in May 2000, are once again online (thanks to Rob). Check it out here and spread the word.