Bücher von Mitchel Cohen

"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." (Steve Biko) Mitchel Cohen's poems -- loaded with insight as well as incite -- seek to deny the oppressor that weapon.Mitchel Cohen lives in "The People's Republic of Brooklyn." He is a member of the Brooklyn Greens/Green Party, and for many years made his living (such as it is) selling his poems in the subways. He was a founding member of the Red Balloon Collective and its "poetry conspiracy" at SUNY Stony Brook in 1969 and edited its journal through the decades. Cohen was one of the "Liberty Bell 7," arrested for demanding freedom for political prisoners Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier. He co-founded and coordinates the No Spray Coalition against toxic pesticides, works with NY State Against Genetic Engineering, Chairs the WBAI Local Station Board (99.5 FM), and broadcasts a weekly internet radio show, "Steal This Radio" at www.nytalkradio.net.

How to change the world. Longtime New Left activist and poet Mitchel Cohen, co-founder of the Red Balloon Collective at SUNY Stony Brook in 1969, the Brooklyn Greens, and a participant in Occupy Wall Street, offers unique and often humorous perspectives on radical movements since the 1960s while challenging the framework used by both anarchists and Marxists from within the Left.Foreword by Prof. Richard Wolff.Cover Art by Haideen Anderson.Includes writings by Marina Sitrin, Isis Feral, Jay Moore, Arun Gupta, Rebecca Solnit, David Graeber, Jeff Goldthorpe, John Tarleton, Sarah Jaffe, Dave Lippman, Tom Angotti, Chris Williams, & Mickey Z.

Mitchel Cohen's 2nd award-winning book of selected poetry touching on personal topics within a highly charged political context. A No-Holds-Barred takedown of Henry Kissinger and other Enemies of the People, but minus the rhetoric. Mitchel cares about lan