Creative Activism

Introduction
SECTION 1: Coal
1. "I'll Throw This Apple Atcha": The Meaning of Mining According to Billy Edd Wheeler
2. "Visible, Horrible, Ugly": Toxicity According to John Sabraw
3. "The Baby Needed Milk": Collectivity According to Diane Gilliam Fisher
SECTION 2: War and Peace
4. "It's a Great American Tradition": War and Industry According to John Sayles
5. "Revolution by Tricks and Clowning": Trips According to Maxine Hong Kingston
6. "Part of My Being": Politics and Poetics According to Keorapetse Kgositsile
SECTION 3: Borders
7. "I Sing about Cesar Chavez in Gold Lame Hot Pants": Revolution and Celebration According to El Vez
8. "I'm Not Some Fucking Gadjo!": Migration According to Eugene Hutz
9. "Gaps We Cross with Technology": Solidarity and Surveillance According to Cory Doctorow
10. "What It's Like to Be Stuck": Interruption According to Julio Salgado
SECTION 4: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
11. "It's Like Walt Whitman Gave Me a Blow Job": Action According to Abe Rybeck
12. "Simultaneity of Actions": Liberation According to Sarah Schulman
13. "Wigs and Skin": Colonialism According to Ama Ata Aidoo
SECTION 5: Economic Justice
14. "Hey, I See You": Revolution According to Boots Riley
15. "Power and Powerlessness": Detecting History According to Sara Paretsky
16. "Sometimes I Get Political, Sometimes I Get Offensive": Pushing Back According to Dallas Wayne
SECTION 6: Prisons
17. "The Anti-Slavery Act of 2002": Private Prisons and Social Justice According to Si Kahn
18. "Politics through Artistic Eyes, and Art through Political Eyes": Prison Rebellion According to Raul Salinas
19. "From My 6 x 9 Cell": Prison and Painting According to Anthony Papa
SECTION 7: Transformations
20. "It's All Connected": Service According to Betye Saar
21. "I'm a Bit of a Threat": Immortality According to Roz Kaveney
22. "Folklore, Fakelore and Fucklore": Metamorphosis According to Emma Bull and Will Shetterly
Bibliography
Index