Rising Up Angry
Series
Identifier:
IA.SER.094-->
Description
“We’re outlaws. Dig it. Right on, brothers and sisters,” was how the Chicago area activist newspaper Rising Up Angry described itself, “a group of people who work together to back each other up. We do a lot of things together, building for the revolution.” Published between 1969 and 1975 with the slogan “To Live We Must Fight” emblazoned on the cover beneath a clenched fist, which on some issues was raising a rifle, Rising Up Angry surveyed local topics and national politics in this turbulent era. One of its founders Michael James... explains, “The idea was pretty much to educate to liberate, that we had to popularize revolution, promote it, fan the flames, and so we started a paper that we took all over Chicago and then beyond to Minnesota, Wisconsin, Waukegan, Philadelphia, New York, and St. Louis...More than just a newspaper, Rising Up Angry was a coalition of activists... With a cover price of 25 cents (free to GIs) and a new edition arriving each month, Rising Up Angry contained advice about what to do when encountering “pig patrols,” condemned “fat businessmen,” and criticized public figures such as Illinois State’s Attorney General Edward Hanrahan…
With profiles of figures such as Malcolm X and Fred Hampton, John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, reviews of the Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder and The Wild Bunch, Rising Up Angry mixed political and cultural commentary with cartoons, montages, discussions of motorcycles and custom cars, with histories of labor activism and guerrilla warfare... The subject of women’s rights was central and the newspaper reported regularly on events like International Women’s Day and the successful lawsuit at Curie High School, which gained female students, equal gym access and sports facilities… Rising Up Angry was current, urgent and radical.
(Taken from http://areachicago.org/rising-up-angry/ Rising Up Angry by Euan Hague)