Setting Sights: Histories and Reflections on Community Armed Self-Defense
scott crow
Decades ago, Malcolm X eloquently stated that communities have the legitimate right to defend themselves “by any means necessary” with any tool or tactic, including guns. This wide-ranging anthology uncovers the hidden histories and ideas of community armed self-defense, exploring how it has been used by marginalized and oppressed communities as well as anarchists and radicals within significant social movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Far from a call to arms, or a “how-to” manual for warfare, this volume offers histories, reflections, and questions about the role of firearms in small collective defense efforts and its place in larger efforts toward the creation of autonomy and liberation.
Featuring diverse perspectives from movements across the globe, Setting Sights includes vivid histories and personal reflections from both researchers and those who participated in community armed self-defense. Contributors include Dennis Banks, Kathleen Cleaver, Mable Williams, Subcomandante Marcos, Kristian Williams, George Ciccariello-Maher, Ashanti Alston, and many more.
Duration - 10h 47m.
Author - scott crow.
Narrator - Zach Bergman.
Published Date - Monday, 01 January 2024.
Location:
United States
Description:
Decades ago, Malcolm X eloquently stated that communities have the legitimate right to defend themselves “by any means necessary” with any tool or tactic, including guns. This wide-ranging anthology uncovers the hidden histories and ideas of community armed self-defense, exploring how it has been used by marginalized and oppressed communities as well as anarchists and radicals within significant social movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Far from a call to arms, or a “how-to” manual for warfare, this volume offers histories, reflections, and questions about the role of firearms in small collective defense efforts and its place in larger efforts toward the creation of autonomy and liberation. Featuring diverse perspectives from movements across the globe, Setting Sights includes vivid histories and personal reflections from both researchers and those who participated in community armed self-defense. Contributors include Dennis Banks, Kathleen Cleaver, Mable Williams, Subcomandante Marcos, Kristian Williams, George Ciccariello-Maher, Ashanti Alston, and many more. Duration - 10h 47m. Author - scott crow. Narrator - Zach Bergman. Published Date - Monday, 01 January 2024.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:18
Dedication
Duration:00:00:19
Preface: Sometimes Stories Reveal Themselves - scott crow
Duration:00:02:40
Foreword: Gun Control Means Being Able to Hit Your Target - Ward Churchill
Duration:00:28:37
Introduction: As Rare as Flowers Rising through Concrete: Why Liberatory Community Armed Self-Defense? - scott crow
Duration:00:04:52
Liberatory Community Armed Self-Defense: Approaches Toward a Theory - scott crow
Duration:00:15:20
Politicians Love Gun Control: Reframing the Debate around Gun Ownership - Neal Shirley
Duration:00:40:57
Gun Rights Are Civil Rights - Kristian Williams and Peter Little
Duration:00:12:40
Notes for a Critical Theory of Community Self-Defense - Chad Kautzer
Duration:00:36:20
Three-Way Fight: Armed Resistance and Militant Anti-Fascism - J. Clark
Duration:00:38:05
The Liberation Gun: Symbolic Aspects of the Black Panther Party - Ashanti Alston
Duration:00:13:53
Desire Armed: An Introduction to Armed Resistance and Revolution - Western Unit Tactical Defense Caucus
Duration:00:10:45
Mischievous Elves: Defending a Broader Concept of the Self - Leslie James Pickering
Duration:00:06:50
Antagonistic Violence: Approaches to the Armed Struggle in Urban Environments from an Anarchist Perspective - Gustavo Rodriguez
Duration:00:27:39
Ten Ways to Advance Liberatory Community Armed Self-Defense - North Carolina Piece Corp
Duration:00:02:02
Russian Anarchists and the Civil War 1917–1922 - Paul Avrich
Duration:00:18:33
Not Only a Right but a Duty: The Industrial Workers of the World Takes Up the Gun in Centralia, Washington 1919 - Shawn Stevenson
Duration:00:18:34
The People Armed: Women in 1930s Spanish Revolution by Anti-Fascist Action UK Schwarze Scharen: Anarcho-syndicalist Militias in Germany, 1929–1933 - Helge Döhring and Gabriel Kuhn
Duration:00:16:14
Schwarze Scharen: Anarcho-syndicalist Militias in Germany, 1929–1933 by Helge Döhring and Gabriel Kuhn
Duration:00:19:08
Other Stories from the Civil Rights Movement: A Spectrum of Armed Defense - Lamont Carter and scott crow
Duration:00:27:37
Negros with Guns: Oral History Interview with Mabel Williams (excerpt) - David Cecelski
Duration:00:07:47
Self-Defense, Self-Respect, Self-Determination: A Presentation (excerpt) - Kathleen Cleaver and Mabel Williams
Duration:00:13:06
Repression Breeds Resistance: The Black Liberation Army and the Radical Legacy of the Black Panther Party - Akinyele Omowale Umoja
Duration:00:26:20
Drifting from the Mainstream: A Chronicle of Early Anti-Rape Organizing and WASP - Nikki Craft
Duration:00:14:16
Oka Crisis of 1990: Indigenous Armed Self-Defense and Organization in Canada - Gord Hill
Duration:00:20:43
We Refuse to Die: An Interview with Dennis Banks - scott crow
Duration:00:13:02
Ampo Camp and the American Indian Movement: Native Resistance in the U.S. Pacific Northwest - Michele Rene Weston
Duration:00:24:00
Mujeres en Acción: Indigenous Women’s Activism within the EZLN (excerpt) - Laura Gallery
Duration:00:12:37
Twelve Women in the Twelfth Year: January 1994 - Subcomandante Marcos
Duration:00:20:51
On Violence, Disasters, Defense, and Transformation: Setting Sights for the Future - scott crow
Duration:00:30:03
Gut Check Time: Violence and Resistance after Hurricane Katrina - Suncere Shakur
Duration:00:12:53
Breaking the Curse of Forgotten Places in Mexico - Simon Sedillio
Duration:00:22:52
Feminism, Guns, and Anarchy in the Twenty-First Century: A Southern U.S. Story - Mo Karnage
Duration:00:19:09
Defending Communities, Demanding Autonomy: Self-Defense Militias in Venezuela’s Barrios - George Ciccariello-Maher
Duration:00:14:26
Towards a Redneck Revolt - Dave Strano
Duration:00:10:42
Defense in Dallas in the Twenty-First Century: An Interview with Members of The Huey P Newton Gun Club - scott crow
Duration:00:05:19
Trial by Fire: Democracy and Self-Defense in Rojava - Alexander Reid Ross and Ian LaValle
Duration:00:17:24
Glossary of Terms
Duration:00:02:55
Contributors Biographies
Duration:00:17:49
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:18