Excerpt from “Look for Me in the Whirlwind”

By Kuwasi Balagoon My father and mother were very law-abiding people, who paid taxes and got up early to go to work, ate miniature breakfasts and made sandwiches out of lunch meat or leftovers and made separate dashes five times a week to work, and kept a close eye on every paycheck and expenditure, slaving…

Anarchy Can’t Fight Alone

By Kuwasi Balagoon Of all ideologies, anarchy is the one that addresses liberty and equalitarian relations in a realistic and ultimate fashion. It is consistent with each individual having an opportunity to live a complete and total 1ife, With anarchy, the society as a whole not only maintains itself at an equal expense to all,…

Brink’s Trial : Opening and Closing Statements

Brink’s Trial Opening Statement By Kuwasi Balagoon July 11, 1983 My name is Kuwasi Balagoon. The name is of Yoruba origin. Yoruba is a name of a tribe in western Africa in what was called the Slave Coast, and now called Nigeria. Many if not the bulk of slaves brought to the Western Hemisphere were…

Kuwasi Balagoon : Letters from Prison

Kuwasi Balagoon, is a man who many anarchists, nationalists, and anti-imperialists may have heard of in passing, but about whom very little has been made broadly available. As you read on, this state of affairs may perplex or even anger you, for certainly what we have here are important and eloquent words by a man…