{"product_id":"km-003955","title":"Black August Resistance. Demonstrate at San Quentin. Sat., August 21st. 1 PM. [Drop title].","description":"\u003cp\u003e[Oakland, California]: Black August Organizing Committee, [1982]. 17-3\/8 x 11 inches. Broadside. White stock printed in red and black. Slight creasing to two corners; minor soiling to margins. Very Good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRare poster issued by the Black August Organizing Committee (BAOC), an Oakland, California-based offshoot of the Black August Planning Organization (BAPO). Black August was initiated by the Black Guerilla Family in San Quentin Prison in 1979 as a way to commemorate fallen political prisoners and freedom fighters of the Black Liberation Movement in California, such as Jonathan and George Jackson. The BAPO was formed shortly thereafter to advocate for political prisoners in the U.S., honoring their lives and struggles and disseminating their histories and stories. Founders of the BAPO split off and began the BAOC circa 1980, as by 1981 there are newspaper accounts of their offices being raided and members arrested under fictitious pretenses by Oakland police.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poster urges viewers to join a demonstration at San Quentin on the 11th anniversary of George Jackson's murder, Saturday, August 21, [1982], and to demand prison reform, an end to new prison construction, and an end to the death penalty. It includes an illustrated calendar for the month of August showing important dates and years, such as the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to the U.S. on August 20, 1619, the August 1, 1978, death of J. Khatari Gaulden, a Black radical incarcerated in San Quentin who died from lack of medical attention after being injured in a touch football game in the prison yard, and, as an addendum at the end of the calendar, the September 9, 1971, beginning of the Attica Rebellion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot located in OCLC or other online repositories.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[Jackson, George].","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45724409069637,"sku":"3955","price":350.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0028\/6978\/8741\/files\/notavailable_aceb4cbd-b740-40c9-86fb-f2d95f65de16.jpg?v=1789000330","url":"https:\/\/mitasbooks.com\/products\/km-003955","provider":"Kate Mitas, Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}