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BL
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878675
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Burton-Rose, Daniel.
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| Title & Author
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Guerrilla USA : : the George Jackson Brigade and the anticapitalist underground of the 1970s /\ Daniel Burton-Rose.
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| Publication Statement
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Berkeley :: University of California Press,, ©2010.
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1 online resource (xiii, 338 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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| ISBN
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0520946030
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: 1282697722
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: 6612697725
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: 9780520946033
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: 9781282697720
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: 9786612697722
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0520264282
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0520264290
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9780520264281
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9780520264298
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Prelude; PART I. ORIGINS; 1. Conceptions of Revolution and Violence, 1961-1967; 2. A CrestingWave, 1967-1970; 3. Delivering on Threats, 1971-1975; PART IIa. CONSCIOUSNESS: COMRADE CRIMINAL; 4. A Child Prodigy; 5. Jailhouse Lawyer; 6. Strike!; 7. A Rebel and a Cause; 8. The Destroyer's Creation; PART IIb. CONSCIOUSNESS: SISTER SUBVERTER; 9. Woman over the Edge of Crime; 10. Women's Work; 11. Inside Out; 12. Days and Nights of Love and War; 13. New York, New York; PART III. UNDERGROUND; 14. Liberating the New World from the Old.
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"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.
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George Jackson Brigade-- History-- 20th century.
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George Jackson Brigade.
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Guerrillas-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Guerrillas.
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HISTORY-- United States-- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Process-- Political Advocacy.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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322.4/20973
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HV6432.5.G46B87 2010eb
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