The Hands that Crafted the Bomb
eBook - ePub

The Hands that Crafted the Bomb

The Making of a Lifelong Antifascist

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Hands that Crafted the Bomb

The Making of a Lifelong Antifascist

About this book

Josh Fernandez is a community college professor who finds himself under investigation for "soliciting students for potentially dangerous activities" after starting an antifascist club on campus.

As Fernandez spends the year defending his job, he reflects on a life lived in protest of the status quo, swept up in chaos and rage, from his childhood in Boston dealing with a mentally ill father and a new family to growing up in Davis, California, in the basement shows of the early '90s when Nazi boneheads proliferated the music scene, looking for heads to crack. His crew's first attempts at an antifascist group fall short when a member dies in a knife fight. A born antiauthoritarian, filled with an untamable rage, Fernandez rails against the system and aggressively chooses the path of most resistance. This leads to long spates of living in his car, strung out on drugs, and robbing the whiteboys coming home from the clubs at night.

Fernandez eventually realizes that his rage needs an outlet and finds relief for his existential dread in the form of running. And fighting Nazis. Fernandez cobbles together a life for himself as a writing professor, a facilitator of a self-defense collective, a boots-on-the-ground participant in Antifa work, and a proud father of two children he unapologetically raises to question authority.

But his parents and academia seem to think Fernandez is failing miserably, putting his children and his students at risk, and they treat Fernandez like he's a time bomb, ready to explode at any moment. They may have a point.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise for The Hands That Crafted the Bomb
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Author’s Note
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. The Investigation, Part 1: How to Get Fired
  9. The Investigation, Part 2: How to Talk to Assholes
  10. The Investigation, Part 3: How to Explode
  11. Present Day: Community Self-Defense
  12. From Brookline to Davis: Cross-Country
  13. Present Day: Some Happy Motherfuckers
  14. The Investigation, Part 4: How to Talk to Colleagues
  15. From Sacramento to Boston: The Greyhound
  16. Present Day: Not the Poet, the Punk Rocker
  17. Present Day: Biter
  18. The Investigation, Part 6: How to Forget
  19. The Investigation, Part 7: How to Move On
  20. The Investigation, Part 8: How to Fight
  21. The Investigation, Part 9: How to Lie
  22. To Korea: You Drink Like Us
  23. The Investigation, Part 10: How to Put a Baby to Sleep
  24. Present Day: How Many Interviews Can I Fail?
  25. The Investigation, Part 11: How to Make a Deal with the Devil
  26. Present Day: My New Job
  27. Present Day: A Rescue
  28. The Investigation, Part 12: How to Pretend
  29. Present Day: I Live in an Eternally Frenzied State
  30. Present Day: Huge Liberal Faggot
  31. Present Day: Going to Prison
  32. Present Day: Smash the City to Bits
  33. The Investigation, Part 13: How to Teach a Class
  34. Present Day: Blacking Out
  35. Present Day: We’re All Ghosts Here
  36. The Investigation, Part 13: How to Say “Fuck You”
  37. Present Day: Hillbillies Need Hugs
  38. Present Day: Trouble Again
  39. Present Day: Sacramento County Jail
  40. Present Day: Gang Unit
  41. Present Day: Clothing and Food for Everyone
  42. Present Day: My Stepdad Can’t Take It Anymore
  43. Present Day: There’s a Brilliant Light after All This
  44. About the Author
  45. About PM Press
  46. Friends of PM Press