Critical perspective of police actions, particularly focussed on California. Includes guidelines for dealing with police brutality and police intervention
"Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) fights for the rights of poor people using direct action. We bring the poor, unemployed and homeless together to defend one another and organize to fight back against the powers that attack the poor..."
Reprint of 1981 essay, originally published in GOLDENSEAL.
"The assassination of Matewan Masscre defendants Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers in August 1921 brought the West Virginia Mine Wars to a frenzied crescendo. Outraged coal miners marched South from the Kanawha valley by the thousands..."