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Daniel Burton-Rose

Guerrilla USA

The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Underground of the 1970s

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9780520264281

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344 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 28 b/w photographs, 1 map
May 2010, Available worldwide
Also in: American Studies; Queer Studies
"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 is a fast-paced tale of love, death, and revolution. 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.
Daniel Burton-Rose is the editor of Creating a Movement with Teeth: A Documentary History of the George Jackson Brigade, coeditor, with Dan Berger, of Seeds Beneath the Snow: Hidden Histories of the Sixties' Second Decade, and coeditor, with Dan Pens and Paul Wright, of The Celling of America: An Inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry, among other books.
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