What Is the George Jackson Brigade?
The George Jackson Brigade formed in the crucible of prisoners’ rights organizing which came out of the civil rights movement and mass anti-war protests of the ‘60s. In its three-year existence, it claimed 11 bombings, as many bank robberies, and one prisoner liberation. Targets included the Department of Corrections, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, as well as different corporate offices. The chemistry present in the group was the same that had been combusting across the country: society’s most oppressed members allied with college educated youth who refused to continue their class and white skin privilege. In the case of the Brigade, women took center stage, queers challenged straights, convicts communicated with college students, and a black man enthusiastically aided whites.
The story of the Brigade takes place against a backdrop of the domestic activism of Black, Chicano, Native American, gay and white prisoners, and armed struggle in the U.S., Canada, Central and South America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Also documented is the FBI’s infiltration of women’s land and the lesbian community (in pursuit of Katherine Powers and Susan Saxe) and political abuse of the grand jury process.
What Is the George Jackson Brigade Information Project?
The George Jackson Brigade Information Project is an innovative blending of oral history and documentary research. By immersing ourselves in people’s history, we critically examine a tumultuous period in U.S. political life with the aim of expanding our conception of what is possible.
Our primary project is the compilation and publication of Guerillas In Our Midst: The Life and Times of the George Jackson Brigade, which is divided into two volumes. The first concentrates on Rita D. Brown, a working-class lesbian from southern Oregon who became a driving force in the Brigade after its three founders were captured (Ed Mead and John Sherman) and killed (Bruce Seidel). The second tells the story of Ed Mead, a politicized ex-convict who, once he became a political prisoner due to his involvement in the Brigade, carried on an unprecedented campaign for prisoners’ rights throughout the U.S. prison system. We plan, as well, to contribute to the autobiography of Mark Cook, another Brigade member whose story richly deserves to be told.
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http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...%3Den%26sa%3DN The George Jackson Brigade, a Seattle based revolutionary group, claimed credit for bank robberies, bombings, attacks against custom houses, court houses, Safeway stores, pub
lic utilities and correction facilities. The group was named after George Jackson, a dissident prisoner at Soledad Prison, who was a writer. While incarcerated at San Quentin Prison, during a violent prison riot and attempted prison break, Jackson ran into the prison yard and was shot and killed by a guard on August 11, 1971. The group was involved in violent acts and claimed to use force to overthrow the United States Government or the government of the State of Washington. In various communiques, the group tried to justify their various acts of violence by stating they were done to further the ends of a revolution of the "masses" to overthrow the present governmental and international business structures and to establish a system of communism. This group was eventually captured or killed and all of them sentenced to jail. One member died during an arrest attempt.
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