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Author Burton-Rose, Daniel.

Title Guerrilla USA : the George Jackson Brigade and the anticapitalist underground of the 1970s / Daniel Burton-Rose
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 338 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Prelude; PART I. ORIGINS; 1. Conceptions of Revolution and Violence, 1961-1967; 2. A CrestingWave, 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
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject George Jackson Brigade -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT George Jackson Brigade fast
Subject Guerrillas -- United States -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
HISTORY -- United States -- General.
Guerrillas
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010004932
ISBN 9780520946033
0520946030
9786612697722
6612697725
1282697722
9781282697720