Guerrilla USA

Ian Livingston igrlivingston at gmail.com
Fri Jun 4 11:37:41 CDT 2010


Ah, yes! Forces of chaos and anarchy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wYwv-k5MWM


On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> Guerrilla USA
> The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Underground of the 1970s
> Daniel Burton-Rose
>
> Available worldwide
>
> Paperback, 358 pages
> ISBN: 9780520264298
> June 2010
> $21.95, £14.95
>
> Hardcover, 358 pages
> ISBN: 9780520264281
> June 2010
> $55.00, £37.95
>
> “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.
>
> http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520264298
>



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