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.

 

My latest writings:

"Constructing Crime, Framing Disaster: Routines of Criminalization and Crisis in Hurricane Katrina" in Punishment and Society volume 11, number 4

 

"'The Malcolm X Doctrine': The Republic of New Afrika and National Liberation on U.S. Soil" in New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness (Between the Lines, 2009)

 

"On July 4, Puerto Rico calls for independence," in La Voz del Paseo Boricua

 

Coming very soon:

A Celebrate People's History poster about the Israeli anti-Zionist group Matzpen, which I did with the ever wonderful Joshua Kahn Russell.

 

Don't forget to check out other recent work:

 "Rescuing Civil Rights From Black Power: Collective Memory and Saving the State in Twenty-First Century Prosecutions of 1960s-Era Cases" in volume 3, number 1 of the Journal for the Study of Radicalism. Check it out here.

 

"Defining Democracy: Coalition Politics and the Struggle for Media Reform" in the International Journal of Communication. Check it out here (to go straight to the pdf version) or, to see the symposium on media reform that I co-edited with Riley Snorton, go here (and scroll down).

 

Reviews of Afflicted Powers (Retort) and Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour (Peniel Joseph ), both in Socialism and Democracy volume 23, number 1.

 

"Real Dragons: A Brief History of Political Militancy and Incarceration, 1960s-2000s," 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.

 

"Navigating the Crisis: A Study Groups Roundtable," which I did with my friend Chris Dixon in issue 8 of Upping the Anti. Order a copy of the journal!