Guerrilla USA: The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Underground of the 1970s
by Daniel Burton-Rose
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"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-1970's 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 show more George Jackson Brigade, Guerrilla USA provides an inside-out perspective on the social movements of the 1970's, 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. show lessTags
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The ups and downs of the George Jackson Brigade of the 1970s, a bunch of revolutionaries that spanned the racial spectrum - 5 of the 7 also were gay or bisexual.
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Daniel Burton-Rose is the author of Guerrilla USA: The George Jackson Brigade and the Anti-capitalist Underground of the 1970s and the co-editor of Confronting Capitalism: Dispatches from a Global Movement, and the Celling of America: An Inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry.
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- 322.4 — Society, Government, and Culture Political science Relation of the state to organized groups and their members Political action groups
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- HV6432.5 .G46 .B87 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Crimes and offenses
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