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Guerrilla: Free Newspaper of the Streets, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1968
by Van Newkirk, Allen
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Detroit: Van Newkirk, 1968. Broadside. 16 x 22.25 inch broadside, minor foxing and toning, generally very good. One side functions as a poster for Eldridge Cleaver's 1968 run for US President, while the other has the text of the Black Panther Party's platform and program, with quotes from the writings of Andre Breton, Robert Duncan, Dave Sinclair, Murray Bookchin, and Eldridge Cleaver. Guerrilla was published by Allen Van Newkirk in Detroit from 1967-1968. Van Newkirk, who was connected with the White Panthers, styled his paper after Black Panther publications, and called Guerrilla "a broadside of poetry and revolution." He was known for his anarchic behavior. During a New York City poetry reading by Kenneth Koch, Van Newkirk charged the stage firing a pistol (loaded with blanks) declaring "death to bourgeois poets" while others threw copies of the Guerrilla to the stunned (and fleeing) audience. According to Detroit's Metro Times, he was arrested in a December 2005 robbery in a Toy's R Us near Vancouver, British Columbia. John Sinclair, originally an editor of Guerrilla, remarked, "The surrealists were his big inspiration, and if sticking up Toys "R" Us isn't a surreal act, I don't know what is!
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- Seller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 284221
- Title
- Guerrilla: Free Newspaper of the Streets, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1968
- Author
- Van Newkirk, Allen
- Format/Binding
- Broadside
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Van Newkirk
- Place of Publication
- Detroit
- Date Published
- 1968
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American; Labor - American; 1960S; Newspaper; Detroit;
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2005
San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Established in 1981 in San Francisco, we specialize in books and ephemeral materials related to the history of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, especially from East Asia, and has also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. You can sign up for free email lists in our subject areas at www.bolerium.com. We are located in San Francisco at 2141 Mission, Suite 300 (between 17th & 18th St.). We're open by appointment only..
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