Author : Daniel Burton-Rose
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1604864613
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)
Book Synopsis Creating a Movement with Teeth by : Daniel Burton-Rose
Download or read book Creating a Movement with Teeth written by Daniel Burton-Rose and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bursting into existence in the Pacific Northwest in 1975, the George Jackson Brigade claimed 14 pipe bombings against corporate and state targets, as many bank robberies, and the daring rescue of a jailed member. Combining veterans of the prisoners’ women’s, gay, and black liberation movements, this organization was also ideologically diverse, consisting of both communists and anarchists. Concomitant with the Brigade’s extensive armed work were prolific public communications. In more than a dozen communiqués and a substantial political statement, they sought to explain their intentions to the public while defying the law enforcement agencies that pursued them. Creating a Movement with Teeth makes available this body of propaganda and mediations on praxis, collecting it in one volume for the first time. In addition, the collection assembles corporate media profiles of the organization’s members and alternative press articles in which partisans thrash out the heated debates sparked in the progressive community by the eruption of an armed group in their midst. Creating a Movement with Teeth illuminates a forgotten chapter of the radical social movements of the 1970s in which diverse interests combined forces in a potent rejection of business as usual in the United States.