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Martin Sostre (1923-2015) was a revolutionary anarchist political prisoner and one of the most successful jailhouse lawyers of the twentieth century, winning landmark cases over political censorship, solitary confinement, and the rights of prisoners to due process. Over the course of his life, Sostre was a radical bookseller, anti-rape organizer, youth mentor, teacher, and housing justice activist. Garrett Felber is an educator, writer, and organizer. They are the author of A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre (AK Press 2025); Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State (UNC Press 2020); and co-author of The Portable Malcolm X Reader with Manning Marable (Penguin 2013). Felber is a co-founder of the abolitionist collective Study and Struggle and is currently building a radical mobile library, the Free Society People's Library, in Portland, Oregon. Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin is a writer, activist, and Black anarchist. He is a former member of SNCC, the Black Panther Party, and Concerned Citizens for Justice. Framed on weapons charges and for threatening the life of a Ku Klux Klan leader, Ervin escaped to Cuba in 1969 and later to Czechoslovakia. He was captured by the CIA in Eastern Europe and sentenced to life in prison in 1970 but was released after fifteen years. Ervin is the author of the landmark text Anarchism and the Black Revolution and co-host of the Black Autonomy Podcast. William C. Anderson is a writer and activist from Birmingham, Alabama. His work has appeared in the Guardian, MTV, British Journal of Photography, Logic(s) Magazine, and Prism, where he's a monthly columnist. He is the author of The Nation on No Map (AK Press 2021) and co-author of As Black as Resistance (AK Press 2018). He's also the co-founder of Offshoot Journal and provides creative direction as a producer of the Black Autonomy Podcast. His writings have been included in the anthologies Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? (Haymarket 2016) and No Selves to Defend (Mariame Kaba 2014).
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