{"product_id":"9781894946780","title":"Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead","description":"\u003cbr\u003eMore than a memoir, Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead takes the reader on a tour of America's underbelly. From Iowa to Compton to Venice Beach to Fairbanks, Alaska, Mead introduces you to poor America just trying to get by--and barely making it. When a thirteen-year-old Mead ends up in the Utah State Industrial School, a prison for boys, it is the first step in a story of oppression and revolt that will ultimately lead to the foundation of the George Jackson Brigade, a Seattle-based urban guerrilla group, and to Mead's re-incarceration as a fully engaged revolutionary, well-placed and prepared to take on both\u003cp\u003ehis captors and the predators amongst his fellow prisoners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough his work organizing against conditions in solitary confinement,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand then with queer prisoners in the legendary Men Against Sexism,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efollowed by his exile from Washington to the dungeons at Marion, Brushy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMountain, and Florence, Ed Mead's practice stands as a rebuke to the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einhumanity and indifference which surround the world's largest prison\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esystem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the late Black Liberation Army soldier Safiya Bukhari observed, \"we\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emust at least write our history and point out the truth of what we\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edid--the good, the bad, and the ugly.\" Ed Mead has done that here,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erecounting his life's story with unflinching honesty, providing a model\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof personal integrity and revolutionary creativity and determination for\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eus all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47065831506160,"sku":"9781894946780","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781894946780_p0.jpg?v=1763610825","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781894946780","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}