Guerrilla USA : The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Underground of the 1970s.
Title:
Guerrilla USA : The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Underground of the 1970s.
Author:
Burton-Rose, Daniel.
ISBN:
9780520946033
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (349 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Halftitle -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prelude -- Part I. Origins -- 1. Conceptions of Revolution and violence, 1961-1967 -- 2. A Cresting Wave, 1967-1970 -- 3. Delivering on Threats, 1971-1975 -- Part IIa. Consciousness: Comrade Criminal -- 4. A Child Prodigy -- 5. Jailhouse lawyer -- 6. Strike! -- 7. A Rebel and a Cause -- 8. The Destroyer's Creation -- Part IIb. Consciousness: Sister Subverter -- 9. Woman over the Edge of Crime -- 10. Women's Work -- 11. Inside out -- 12. Days and nights of love and War -- 13. New York, New York -- Part III. Underground -- 14. Liberating the New World from the old -- 15. Invitation to a Bombing -- 16. A night without City light -- 17. Dog Day Afternoon -- 18. Jailbreak! -- 19. Clueless in Seattle -- 20. Diverging Paths to a Common Dream -- 21. Ed Mead Gets His Day in Court -- 22. Underground in oregon -- 23. Back with a Bang! -- 24. Winding Down -- 25. Crying a River -- Coda -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
"We are cozy cuddly/armed and dangerous/and we will/raze the fucking prisons/to the ground." In an attempt to deliver on this promise, the George Jackson Brigade launched a violent three-year campaign in the mid-1970s against corporate and state institutions in the Pacific Northwest. This campaign, conceived by a group of blacks and whites, both straight and gay, claimed fourteen bombings, as many bank robberies, and a jailbreak. Drawing on extensive interviews with surviving members of the George Jackson Brigade, Guerrilla USA provides an inside-out perspective on the social movements of the 1970s, revealing the whole era in a new and more complex light. It is also a compelling exploration of the true nature of crime and a provocative meditation on the tension between self-restraint and anger in the process of social change.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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