For Love and Liberty
For Love and Liberty
by Tom Manning
Tom Manning is a freedom fighter, political prisoner and prolific artist. His paintings are stories that jump off the page, revealing the outlook of people who struggle for liberation around the world. This book of over 80 full-color paintings were made between 1996 and 2005.
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“There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard,”
reads Psalm 19:3 and the gravestone of Black freedom fighters
Jonathan and George Jackson. Voice, through its many forms,
articulates vision. Call it subversive art, liberating art, art that
challenges the one-dimensional, Tom’s art is a voice among the
dispossessed that transcends concrete and razor wire with an affirmation
of life.
The paintings of Tom Manning and American Indian Movement
activist Leonard Peltier; the creative work of Puerto Rican
Independista Oscar Lopez Rivera; the poetry of anti-imperialist
Marilyn Buck, which lives on, and the Earth defender poems of
Marie Mason; the spoken word of Mumia Abu-Jamal and Mutulu
Shakur. They are the voices of our political prisoners, principled
and honorable men and women who communicate from isolation
and suffering.
We must not let their voices be suppressed. They need be heard
and celebrated by freedom loving people everywhere.
- Ray Luc Levasseur, April 13, 2014
