Publication

2010 - University of California Press, Berkeley, California

Language

English

Word Count

89,500 words, Guess

Page Count

358 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100520264282
  • ISBN-139780520264281
  • ISBN-139780520264298
  • ISBN-100520264290
  • Library of Congress Control Number2010004932
and 4 more
  • OCLC Control Number449860373
  • Better World Books9780520264298
  • Better World Books9780520264281
  • Open LibraryOL24109695M

Classifications

  • DDC322.4/20973
  • LCCHV6432.5.G46 B87 2010
  • LCCJK1764

Description

From the publisher: > “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.

Subjects

Topics

HistoryGuerrillasarmed strugglePolitical activistsGeorge Jackson Brigaderevolutionary armed struggleRevolutionaries, united states

Times

Other Editions

  • Guerrilla USA: the George Jackson Brigade and the anticapitalist underground of the 1970sUniversity of California Press2010-01-01

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