Creating a movement with teeth : a documentary history of the George Jackson Brigade / edited by Daniel Burton-Rose ; [preface by Ward Churchill].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burton-Rose, Daniel.

Churchill, Ward.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Guerrillas--United States--History--20th century.

Guerrillas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, Calif. : PM Press, 2010.

Summary:

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 communications and substitutive political statements, this collection reveals this body of propaganda and meditations on praxis.

Contents:

""Front Cover""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Permissions""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface, Ward Churchill""; ""Introduction, Daniel Burton-Rose""; ""Conventions""; ""I. PROFILES OF THE GEORGE JACKSON BRIGADE""; ""i. Law Enforcement Perspectives""; ""Federal Bureau of Investigation, Freedom of Information Act Document, “Domestic Security�""; ""Seattle Police Department Intelligence Division, “George Jackson Brigade�""; ""Federal Bureau of Investigation, “RE: GEORGE JACKSON BRIGADE,� January 4, 1978""

""ii. Difficult to Digest: The Corporate Media on the George Jackson Brigade""""Walter Wright, “Ed Mead: Two Faces of a Dangerous Man�""; ""Walter Wright, “Pages in the Life of Bruce Seidel: Two Sides of a Revolutionary�""; ""Neil Modie, “Janine and Jori: The Two Faces of a Jackson Brigade Suspect�""; ""Community Response: Chris Beahler et al., “Open Letter To Dr. Jennifer James�""; ""John Arthur Wilson, “Sherman��Ready When the Time Comes��""; ""iii. Invisible People: A Working Class Black Man and a White Dyke""

""Community Response: The Walla Walla Brothers""""Summer Solstice, June 21, 1977""; ""Capitalism is Organized Crime, July 4, 1977""; ""“Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories,� July 4, 1977""; ""Community Response: Vinegar Beard Collective""; ""Community Response: Stagecoach Mary Collective, August 10, 1977""; ""Open Letter to the John Brown Book Club, September 1, 1977""; ""Bust the Bosses, October 12, 1977""; ""Letter to the Automotive Machinists Union Local 289, October 16, 1977""; ""You Can Kill a Revolutionary, But You Can�t Kill a Revolution, November 1977""

""An Open Letter to Bo (Rita D. Brown), November 1977 “To Bo Wherever We May Find Her�""""Open Letter To Jailers Spellman and Waldt, December 23, 1977""; ""Bust the Union Busters, December 24, 1977""; ""Our Losses Are Heavy . . . Easter Sunday 1978""; ""III. THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE IS THE SOURCE OF LIFE""; ""The Power of the People Is the Source of Life: Political Statement of the George Jackson Brigade""; ""History and Summation of Brigade Unity""; ""The Left""; ""Weather Influence""; ""The Police (and Other Backward Elements)""; ""Terrorism""; ""The Road Forward�Strategy""

""Tactics""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-305) and index.

ISBN:

1-60486-463-X

OCLC:

699474412