David Gilbert Transferred

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David Gilbert has been transferred to Auburn prison; his new address is:

David Gilbert, 83A6158

Auburn Correctional Facility

PO box 618

Auburn NY 13021

David is a North American political prisoner. The Civil Rights struggle of the 60s exposed him to the sham of US democracy and embodied the beauty of collective struggle. In 1965 he started the Vietnam Committee at Columbia University in NY and became a founding member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) there. In 1967, David authored the first SDS pamphlet on US Imperialism and participated in the Columbia Strike of 1968. After about 5 years of organizing in the above ground movement, David joined the revolutionary underground, spending a total of 10 years living clandestinely, actively resisting imperialism with arms. On October 20, 1981, he and other comrades were captured at Nyack, NY during an attempted expropriation by a unit of the Black Liberation Army working with white revolutionaries (subsequently known as the Revolutionary Armed Task Force- RATF). During the expropriation attempt, one Brinks guard and two police officers were killed. Charged and convicted of felony murder, David is serving a 75 year (minimum) to life sentence.

While in prison, David has been actively involved in the struggle against AIDS, and has remained a staunch opponent of oppression still dedicated to human liberation. He is also a longtime advisor and collaborator in the annual Certain Days Free Political Prisoners Calendar project.

A book of David's writings, No Surrender, was published by Abraham Guillen Press in David's memoirs, Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground and Beyond, is due to be published by PM Press in December.

For an incomplete collection of David's writings, see the page devoted to him on Kersplebedeb.