Guerrilla USA: The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Underground of the 1970s
Daniel Burton-Rose
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, this book provides an inside-out perspective on the social movements of the 1970 ... More
“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, this book 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 an exploration of the true nature of crime and a meditation on the tension between self-restraint and anger in the process of social change.
Keywords:
George Jackson Brigade,
social movements,
state institutions,
bombings,
bank robberies,
self-restraint,
crime,
anger,
social change,
Pacific Northwest
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780520264281 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: March 2012 |
DOI:10.1525/california/9780520264281.001.0001 |
