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Orisanmi Burton

24 days

Those interested should purchase Tip of the Spear from @Workshops4Gaza , a collective committed to the liberation of Palestine. All proceeds will directly support solidarity efforts in Gaza.

Tip of the Spear — Workshops 4 Gaza

Tip of the Spear boldly and compellingly argues that prisons are a domain of hidden warfare within US borders.

www.workshops4gaza.com

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

3 years

I don't think people realize just how much this deep-seated but usually unspoken fear that Black people aspire to take The White Man's place and do to him what he has done to us has been a major driver of US historical and political development.

Right Wing Watch

@RightWingWatch

3 years

Pat Robertson says critical race theory is "a monstrous evil" that is urging people of color to "rise up and overtake their oppressors" so that once they've "gotten the whip handle," they'll then "instruct their white neighbors how to behave."

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Orisanmi Burton

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3 years

When ppl call Attica "the deadliest prison uprising in US history," or some derivation thereof, they collapse defensive political violence from below w/ racist state violence from above. The rebels killed 3 ppl: 1 guard/2 captives. The state killed 39: 29 captives/10 guards.

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7 months

Of her piece “The United States of Attica,” the late great Faith Ringgold said, “This map of American violence is incomplete – please write in whatever you find lacking.”

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@orisanmi

5 years

After 42 years in prison, MOVE member Delbert Orr Africa wins his release

Africa was one of nine MOVE members sent to prison on third-degree murder charges for the death of Philadelphia Police Officer James Ramp.

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

1 year

Tip of the Spear is a real book that exists in the world. Working on this project totally transformed my consciousness.

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Orisanmi Burton

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1 year

Rise in power Mutulu Shakur, revolutionary intellectual, soldier, healer. Among his many contributions to the Black liberation struggle was this study on prison-based counterinsurgency and behavior modification. It’s 💯📠

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

4 years

To title a film on Chairman Fred “Black Messiah” is to give Hoover and the FBI the power to define the leadership style of the movement they sought to disrupt, destroy, discredit, and otherwise neutralize. Black revolution framed through a counterrevolutionary discourse.

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

1 year

My latest in @truthout

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@orisanmi

1 year

This errant sheet of notebook paper was recovered by state investigators from the detritus of the Attica rebellion, which erupted 53 years ago today.

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

24 days

An open letter to prison officials in response to the censorship of Tip of the Spear (1/2)

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

3 years

As we prepare to observe the 50th anniversary of the Attica rebellion/massacre we should be paying attention to what is happening in Israeli prisons and acknowledge the internationalism of Attica and the US Prison struggle more broadly. 1/

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

7 months

Incarcerated people successfully sued the state of New York for the opportunity to behold the solar eclipse, asserting their right to commune with the cosmos. Attica Is.

Astral Traveling

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupAstral Traveling · Pharoah SandersThembi℗ A Verve Label Group Release; ℗ 1971 UMG Recordings, Inc.Released on: 19...

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

3 months

Understood as a geographically and temporally extensive revolt, “Attica” began 54 years ago today: August 10, 1970. #BlackAugustResistance

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

1 year

We outside

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

2 years

Soon Come:

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

1 year

My new article, “Targeting Revolutionaries: The Birth of the Carceral Warfare Project, 1970 – 1978,” just dropped in @RadHistReview 🧵

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

1 year

It hasn’t officially dropped yet, but Tip of the Spear is out in these streets!

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

1 year

On the 52nd anniversary of the Attica Massacre - one of the bloodiest confrontations in the US settler colony since the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 - consider these words from the institute of the Black World:

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

4 years

If you are at home raising children (like me) and therefore unable to be fully present in the struggles for radical social transformation that we see emerging all around us, remember that raising radical children is the most important thing you could be doing right now.

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

1 year

Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt officially drops today!

University of California Press

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

www.ucpress.edu

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

10 months

Truly honored that Tip of the Spear has received praise from a radical scholar like Dr. CBS, whose new book - Black Scare/Red Scare - is a massive contribution to Black Studies and beyond ❤️🖤💚 1/5

Dr. CBS

@blackleftaf

10 months

Best book of 2023 is @orisanmi ’s Tip of the Spear, hands down.

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

1 year

We in these streets!

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1 year

Hard to remember the last time I was this excited about a new book! Congrats @orisanmi !

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@orisanmi

1 year

Check out this cool “Militarizing Barbie” zine a student made in my “Ethnography, Power, and the Archive” class. H/T to @prisonculture for visiting the class and inspiring the final project.

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@eva_rey_pinto

1 year

Now that #Barbie is the focus of more of our conversations, it is worth remembering when the US military and Mattel created an alliance between 1989 and 2002 that #militarized Barbie. This 🧵 is a #zine part of my current #military #Barbie research.

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

3 months

Parable of the Sower begins today.

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

3 years

I am happy to share “Captivity, Kinship, and Black Masculine Care Work under Domestic Warfare,” my new article in American Anthropologist now available here // DM or email me for a PDF.

American Anthropologist | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library

This article examines the forms of intergenerational kinship and care work that Black men perform within and beyond US prisons. First, I offer a historical conceptualization of domestic warfare as a...

anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

3 years

I didn't feel like writing so I uploaded some Black radical archival audio files for the people.

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

5 years

Tupac’s “Me and My Girlfriend” is about the U.S. Government’s War Against the Black Liberation Struggle, a thread

Me And My Girlfriend

Provided to YouTube by Entertainment One U.S., LPMe And My Girlfriend · MakaveliThe Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory℗ Koch RecordsReleased on: 2005-03-08Aut...

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

4 years

“PEOPLE EVERYWHERE ARE EXPRESSING THEIR RAGE ABOUT ATTICA”: a flyer listing militant solidarity actions inside the walls on the streets, and underground. 49 years ago today. This is what we mean when we say Attica Means Fight Back.

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

11 months

It’s official: the display copy of Tip of the Spear has been expropriated from the #AAACASCA2023 exhibition room. What an honor! I sincerely hope it brings revolutionary clarity to whomever now has it under their care.

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

11 months

Discussing living histories of Black Study and revolutionary warfare with Joshua Myers.

Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

11 months

Last night’s Tip of the Spear book talk at @bolcoop was 🔥, not least because Dr. Joshua Myers is such a deep thinker and thoughtful interlocutor. Shout out to the @AUAntiracismCtr for organizing the event with such care. #Blackstudy

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

11 months

It’s on! Register here if you are so inclined:

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

3 years

And another one.

Media Matters

@mmfa

3 years

Tucker Carlson: Critical race theory will lead to the genocide of white Americans

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

11 months

Gratitude to @proteanmag for publishing an excerpt of my book and for highlighting the "cruel resonance" between discourses that similarly pathologize Black and Palestinian resistance.

Protean Magazine

@proteanmag

11 months

Republished here is an excerpt from Orisanmi Burton’s ( @orisanmi ) “Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt,” a crucial revision of the prevailing understanding of the Attica revolt and its political context.

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

3 years

The rebellion did not inevitably lead to massive loss of life. Rather, state actors made a conscious decision to end it through a public display of lethality.

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

10 months

Honored that Tip of the Spear has been included, among so many other great works, in Inquest's 2023 year-end reading list.

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@orisanmi

2 months

Excellent primer on Walter Rodney’s life, philosophy, and work.

Upstream

@UpstreamPodcast

3 months

OUT TODAY! 🎧 we spoke w/ @HalfAtlanta & @blackleftaf about the life and work of Walter Rodney: pan-africanism, marxism, underdevelopment, guerrilla intellectualism, and much more

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

6 months

Let’s get into it.

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

3 years

Congratulations to the 2021 Freedom Scholars. I am honored beyond words to be among them and accept this award as a mandate to sharpen my praxis in support of revolutionary abolitionist movements.

Marguerite Casey Foundation

@CaseyGrants

3 years

Introducing the 2021 #FreedomScholars ! The nation's boldest scholars lead critical studies and analyses of social movements and inspire us to reimagine and build liberated futures. With @GroupHealthFdn , we're investing $1.5M into their social + economic justice scholarship.

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@orisanmi

7 months

Pull up if you’ll be in Chicago or Champaign next week. 📚

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@orisanmi

1 year

Also see this brazen statement by Louis Joylon West, a UCLA psychiatrist and reputed MK Ultra operative:

Angleton’s Orchids

@AngletonOrchids

1 year

Drug policy hasn’t been a failure, just ask Nixon’s henchman Bob Ehrlichman:

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

9 months

This was dope. Video coming soon.

Hutchins Center

@HutchinsCenter

9 months

Jan 23, 3pm @HiphopArchive - a convo w/ @blackleftaf ( @waynestate ) & @orisanmi ( @AmericanU ) on their books 'Black Scare/Red Scare' & 'Tip of the Spear' moderated by @LoneberryWang ( @USC ). Presented by the Institute on Policing, Incarceration & Public Safety at the Hutchins Center

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11 months

A good review that inadvertently exposes the limits of the “progressive” standpoint the book critiques. This has been one of the hardest parts for readers to deal with. It is rather thorny contradiction.

Lessons of the Long Attica Revolt

Orisanmi Burton's new book looks at the legacy of the prison rebellions of the 1970s and their impact on the anti-carceral movements of today.

progressive.org

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

4 years

In my latest in ⁦ @JournalSpectre ⁩, I revisit the momentous Panther 21 case 50 years later. I am particularly excited for folks to hear the original recorded version of “An Open Letter to Judge Murtagh,” read by Panther Cetewayo Tabor.

Revolution Is Illegal – Spectre Journal

Orisanmi Burton reflects on the legacy of the Panther 21 on the 50th anniversary (to the day) of their acquittal.

spectrejournal.com

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@orisanmi

10 months

Now is the time for courage.

Dr. CBS

@blackleftaf

10 months

What we ought to take away from this Ivy League President spectacle is that you might as well be radical in these Red Scare times because even when you spout lily-livered liberal drivel they will still come for you if you aren’t imperialistic enough. Now is the time for courage.

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@orisanmi

3 months

Fantastic thread.

with the truth from an ancient time 🔻

@AxumSelassie

3 months

THREAD: At the age of 16, Joan Tarika Lewis became the first sister to join the Black Panther Party in 1967. Tarika quickly climbed the ranks of the cadre and at one point was a lieutenant, helping to train new recruits and run one of the Panther offices in West Oakland

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

7 months

This is incredible: "rebellions cannot be studied with our traditional Western historical methods. Life must be breathed into latent meanings written in invisible ink." 🔥🔥🔥 Major gratitude to @nickfbarber & @CharlotteERosen

A Poetics of Living Rebellion

Rebellions cannot be studied with our traditional toolbelt of Western historical methods.

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

4 years

More than one T H O U S A N D people in San Quentin Prison have been infected with COVID-19. #FreeThemAll

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

4 months

Honored by this review of TOS written by Robert J. Boyle, who was deeply involved in some of the key events recounted in the book.

The “Long Attica Revolt”

Tip of the Spear Black Radicalism, Prison Repression and the Long Attica Revolt By Orisanmi Burton University of California Press, 2023, 328 pages, $29.95 paperback. PRISONS, ACCORDING TO Dr. Orisa…

againstthecurrent.org

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@orisanmi

1 year

The best way to understand the historical development of the US prison post-1970 is through the lens of counterinsurgency. These discussions w/ @MAKCapitalism trace how the state (FBI & CIA) manages “intractables” & coercively extracts knowledge from vulnerable populations.

Solidarity with Palestine #StopCopCity

@jaybeware

1 year

Both parts of our recently discussion with @orisanmi are now up on @MAKCapitalism . We talked about two of his recent pieces examining the prison as a site of domestic warfare with FBI & CIA counterinsurgency programs: pt 1: pt 2:

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@orisanmi

4 years

Former BPP member Sundiata Acoli is an elderly man who has been incarcerated for nearly 48 years. Despite his exemplary prison record and low recidivism risk, he has been denied parole 6 times. Please demand that @GovMurphy #BringSundiataHome

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3 months

I’ll be pulling up to the Schomburg on Saturday at 5:30pm to pay my respects to our late, great ancestor Eddie Ellis, whose intergenerational assignment to me a decade ago birthed Tip of the Spear.

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@orisanmi

7 months

Pull up if you’ll be in Southern California next week 📚

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3 years

A mood

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2 years

@JohnFPfaff @ztsamudzi It makes perfect sense if you understand that therapy in prison is designed to force compliance to state power.

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1 year

What if I told you the Attica rebellion never really ended, that racist state repression and reformist counterinsurgency didn't destroy it, that it diffused and took on many different forms, that it is a living Black radical genealogy?

Activist at 14, Burned Out by 26. Today, Emani Davis Teaches That to Change the World, You Must...

Emani Davis spent her youth fighting for the children of incarcerated parents. By 26, she was exhausted. Now she helps others in this battle.

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@orisanmi

3 years

They had been wanting to go on a killing spree for a long time.

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1 year

"Baba Sekou has spent most of his life fighting for us, lets fight for him" - Dadaji Odinga

Immediate Relief Support for Sekou Odinga, organized by Naima Akinwole-Bandele

Greetings Family, Sekou & I begin with offering our deepest grat… Naima Akinwole-Bandele needs your support for Immediate Relief Support for Sekou Odinga

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@orisanmi

2 years

People be looking at me crazy when I tell them social media is a psychological warfare platform. DIY counterinsurgency.

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@orisanmi

11 months

Honored to see my article “Targeting Revolutionaries: The Birth of the Carceral Warfare Project, 1970-1978” translated into Portuguese.

Traduções Abolicionistas

@abolitraducoes

11 months

TEXTO NOVO! Em "Encarcerando revolucionários", Orisanmi Burton ( @orisanmi ) analisa a emergência do projeto de guerra carcerária, uma campanha clandestina para introduzir lógicas e técnicas de contrainsurgência nas prisões estadunidenses. Link no próximo tweet 👇

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@orisanmi

1 year

All @ucpress books are 40% off during the month of May! If you were interested in pre-ordering Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt, now would be a good time to do it! 😉

University of California Press

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

www.ucpress.edu

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@orisanmi

1 year

Honored to be back on MAKC discussing the prison as an infrastructure of counter-revolutionary warfare.

Millennials Are Killing Capitalism

@MAKCapitalism

1 year

NEW: “War to Domesticate” - Orisanmi Burton ( @Orisanmi ) on U.S. Prisons as Sites of Counter-Revolutionary Warfare

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2 years

Fascinating moment during Dhoruba bin-Wahad’s lawsuit against the FBI in which judge Constance Baker Motley reveals that like Dhoruba, her cousin - BPP member John Huggins - was also a COINTELPRO target.

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@orisanmi

5 years

Here is his withering critique of the concept of "rehabilitation."

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5 years

In other words, COINTELPRO was not simply about targeting extant Black revolutionaries, it was also about preventing the intergenerational transmission of revolutionary knowledge.

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@orisanmi

5 years

I mostly hate email but sometimes I don't: "Dear Professor, I have a question for you. I know in class we discussed that nothing is inherently racial; However, wouldn't capitalism be an exception?" 😍

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@orisanmi

1 year

Some thoughts on the methodology that produced Tip of the Spear: “Notes on Archival War.”

University of California Press

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

www.ucpress.edu

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

4 years

Welcome home ❤️🔥✊🏾

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1 year

The true radical, revolutionary, and abolitionist meaning of the Attica rebellion cannot be reduced to the intensity of its repression.

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@orisanmi

3 years

Back in 1967, O’Hara lamented what he felt like were debilitating constraints placed on his forces by public opinion, which prevented the guard from besieging urban ghettos like the US was doing to Vietnamese villages.

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5 years

Attica Brother Joseph Little making it plain nearly 50 years ago.

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10 months

“I think for the ultimate peace and security of the situation it will probably be necessary for Israel to give up this conquered territory because to hold on to it will only exacerbate the tensions and deepen the bitterness of the Arabs.” -MLK

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@orisanmi

5 months

❤️✊🏾🔥

Shutdown Attica

@ShutdownAttica

5 months

We’re sending a huge thank you to @orisanmi for sending us copies of his book “Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt.” ✊🏾🙏🏽 #ShutDownAttica

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1 year

Here is the first draft of a playlist I started working on to accompany my forthcoming book: Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the long Attica Revolt. Will keep adding tracks overtime. LMK what you think. . .

Tip of the Spear by OB on Apple Music

Playlist · 41 Songs

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@orisanmi

9 months

Excited to chop it up with the brilliant @blackleftaf and @LoneberryWang next week.

Hutchins Center

@HutchinsCenter

9 months

Jan 23, 3pm @HiphopArchive - a convo w/ @blackleftaf ( @waynestate ) & @orisanmi ( @AmericanU ) on their books 'Black Scare/Red Scare' & 'Tip of the Spear' moderated by @LoneberryWang ( @USC ). Presented by the Institute on Policing, Incarceration & Public Safety at the Hutchins Center

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The oath of the Prisoners Liberation Front, an excerpt from the "Prisoners Injustice Resistance and Survival Manual," was authored in November 1969 from the Manhattan House of Detention (aka The Tombs) 11 months before nearly all the jails in NYC erupted in planned rebellions.

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2 months

Sign up to read Tip of the Spear and Big Black: Stand at Attica with Noname Book Club 📚 ✊🏾

Noname Book Club

@NonameBooks

2 months

August Book Club Meet Up Dates/ sign up in bio! (1/2)

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Prisons as training grounds and spaces of refuge for white supremacist terror. #MUMI2019

W. Va. corrections employees fired, suspended following ‘disturbing’ photo of trainees performing...

“It is distasteful, hurtful, disturbing, highly insensitive and completely inappropriate,” one state official said.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@orisanmi

3 months

Deeply honored.

Noname Book Club

@NonameBooks

3 months

✨august book picks✨ Tip of the Spear by Orisanmi Burton Big Black: Stand at Attica by Frank Smith for info on book club meetups join our mailing list at the link in bio 🌱

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10 months

Grateful for this incredibly engaged review of Tip of the Spear.

Los Angeles Review of Books

@LAReviewofBooks

10 months

"Burton offers both a strident case for Attica’s legacy as a bold and prefigurative revolutionary struggle." Jarrod Shanahan reviews Orisanmi Burton’s "Tip of the Spear."

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At a moment when solidarity with our people locked down is desperately needed. Prison admins are tightening their grip around the inside/outside communications infrastructure, all under the guise of enhanced service, security, and efficiency. Don't believe the hype.

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On the second day of the rebellion, Nelson Rockefeller dispatched Major General Almerin C. O'Hara, a former Commander of the New York State National Guard, to Attica.

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7 months

I'll be talking Attica, Counterinsurgency, and Prison Education at the NYU/Columbia "Crime, Law and Punishment Workshop" next Monday 3/26 @ 5pm. Slide through if you are so inclined.

Crime, Law and Punishment Workshop

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1 year

This is one of the ways that counterinsurgency operates on the narrative terrain, by incarcerating our analysis, our memory, our aspirations. . .

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5 years

The weaponization of the passive voice - - The police shot Frank Ordonez. That is how the UPS employee was killed.

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"It is much easier for us to grasp the despicable treachery of the state officials of New York - for we are used to the abuses of white power - than it is to digest the meaning of Attica."

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4 years

Lest we forget that a century ago the 1918 flu pandemic was followed by the 1919 Red Summer in which hundreds of Black people were killed by white supremacist terrorism. History will not repeat itself.

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@orisanmi

7 months

This piece clearly demonstrates that the thesis of my book is not “new.” Ringgold and many others clearly understood Attica as a paradigm for American (and thus Imperial) violence as well as an ongoing “heroic struggle for freedom” that exceeded prison walls.

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@orisanmi

1 year

Extremely gratified that my research has sparked conversation and helped sharpen our analysis. @IMIXWHATILIKE @MAKCapitalism

iMiXWHATiLiKE!

@IMIXWHATILIKE

1 year

The biggest of shouts to @MAKCapitalism and @orisanmi

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

11 months

Last night’s Tip of the Spear book talk at @bolcoop was 🔥, not least because Dr. Joshua Myers is such a deep thinker and thoughtful interlocutor. Shout out to the @AUAntiracismCtr for organizing the event with such care. #Blackstudy

Dr. CBS

@blackleftaf

11 months

Since I’ve been preggo I haven’t been reading as much as I want to. But once I started reading @orisanmi ’s Tip of the Spear and Josh Myers’ Of Black Study together, I’ve been reading for hours every day. These books are incredible separately but a divine pairing. 🤝🏿🫶🏿

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

3 years

He procured the helicopter and the tear gas that inaugurated the massacre and although he maintained that he played no other role in the atrocities that ensued, members of the press reported hearing O'Hara issuing commands over the radio during the assault, suggesting otherwise

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

10 months

🔥 thread

Stuart Schrader

@stschrader1

10 months

In 1970, the NY Times published a piece purporting to expose Jewish fears that anti-zionism was the new antisemitism within Black Power and New Left groups. The FBI took notice and turned the article into a pamphlet as part of its Counterintelligence Program or COINTELPRO. 1/13

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

3 years

A few weeks after the rebellion, while being tortured in solitary confinement, surviving Attica rebels wrote a letter acknowledging the international solidarity that had been pouring in from all over the Third World. 2/

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

3 years

“Of course, we can't do just what we would do in Vietnam. Out there if you had a sniper in a room you'd just crank up a tank and fire a shell through the window, destroying the whole room and much of the building. I dt tk pub opinion would accept. . . that kind of force here.”

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Orisanmi Burton

@orisanmi

2 years

Looking forward to this.

Black Reconstruction As A Portal

@readingdubois

2 years

We are excited to announce our next seminar talk on Thursday April 13 at 12pm PST / 3pm EST with Dr. Orisanmi Burton @orisanmi ! "The Wake Up" Zoom registration:

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Orisanmi Burton

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6 years

We can no longer send money orders to our people in NY State prisons. All monetary support now has to be mediated through JPay, a private corporation that is cornering the market of “e-services” to incarcerated ppl. See: by @LVikkiml for more info

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