false 6308093 1 <p>"Diana Block's <i>Arm the Spirit </i>is a stunning piece of work with pitch-perfect voice and strong writing. She gives voice to many of us who took up the vocation of revolution and who have remained true to the vision of a radically transformed world."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of <i>Blood on the Border</i></p><p>In June 1985, Diana Block, her two-week-old son, and five fellow revolutionaries fled Los Angeles after finding a surveillance device in their car. Thus began a decade of life underground-she spent ten years on the run from the FBI, was featured on TV's <i>America's Most Wanted</i>, and simultaneously raised two children.</p><p>In a perfect demonstration that the personal is political, Diana's memoir offers unique insights into efforts to build homegrown clandestine resistance to US imperialism. Relayed with emotional depth and a poetic style, <i>Arm the Spirit </i>brings a woman's perspective to a subject typically dominated by heroic, male discourse. The book also traces Diana's political development on either side of her period underground, offering a history of the culture and politics of the 1960s and 1970s-especially the decisions that led many to take up arms against the US government-as well as an analysis of the political terrain of the 1990s, when Diana resurfaced and tried to reintegrate into a very different world.</p><p><b>Diana Block </b>has been an activist for thirty-eight years. She has written for political journals and women's magazines and currently edits <i>The Fire Inside</i>, the newsletter of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners.</p> 6493116 1 3 2009 Arm the Spirit: A Story from Underground and Back total:19|5:6|4:5|3:6|2:2|1:0| 19 72 60 5 4 4 false false Wed Mar 25 08:57:53 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 08:57:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 00:35:43 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 00:35:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 09:06:51 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 23:10:46 -0700 2009
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