Creating a Movement with Teeth: A Documentary History of the George Jackson Brigade

by Daniel Burton-Rose

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This? panoramic overview? chronicles the activities of the George Jackson Brigade, a radical, 1970s, multiracial and sexually diverse organization?veterans of prisoners', women's, gay, and black liberation movements. The Brigade embraced? bank robberies and armed insurrection to wage war against what they felt was an unjust government. Through a wide array of surveillance reports, feature articles from mainstream and alternative presses, and the organization's prolific, spontaneous show more communications and substitutive political statements, this collection reveals this body of propaganda and meditations on praxis. show less

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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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2010

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Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
949.605History & geographyHistory of EuropeGreece, Albania, Yugoslavia, Serbia, Romania, BulgariaTurkey and the Balkans
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HV6432.5 .G46 .C74Social sciencesSocial pathology. Social and public welfare. CriminologySocial pathology. Social and public welfare.CriminologyCrimes and offenses
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