The Life and Times the George Jackson
Brigade
Cast of Characters
Introduction
i.
The Call for Domestic Insurgency:
Carrying on After the Death of the Dream
ii.
Quantifying the Crisis: A Statistical
Look at Bombings by Civilians in the U.S., 1965-1970
iii.
“The Bombing Capitol of the Country”:
Seattle in a Turbulent Century
iv.
A Bombing Collective in a Cooperative
Community
I.
Something Different: Class Dynamics in the
Brigade
A.
The Destroyer’s Creation
i.
A Child Prodigy—In which a precocious Ed
Mead discovers his calling: crime
ii.
Jailhouse Shock—In which Mead discovers
that capitalism is responsible for life’s ills, and moves on his new
opponent
iii.
A Rebel and a Cause—In which Mead becomes
impatient with reform, and embraces revolution
iv.
The Way Forward—In which the path is
illuminated
B.
Sister Subverter
i.
Woman Over
the Edge of Crime—In which Rita Brown’s criminal past is related, and
she is introduced to the political thought of George Jackson in time to
understand the significance of his death
ii.
Women’s Work—In which Brown is released
from prison and becomes a prison activist
iii.
Days and Nights of Love and War—In which
the Symbionese Liberation Army is massacred in Compton and Brown takes
her first vacation
iv.
Dead Men, Endangered Women—In which Brown
and participate in the “Attica Day” demonstration and attend the
trials of captured feminist fugitives Pat Swinton and Assata Shakur
II.
Underground
i.
Liberating the New World from the Old, One
Pipebomb at a Time—In which a furtive effort to launch a guerrilla cell
out of an anarchist bookshop in Pike Place Market ends in disaster, and
the Brigade turns itself into a public enemy with its poorly thought out
response
ii.
Invitation to a Bombing—In which Brown and
are invited to join the Brigade, and do so contingent on the
organization making a public apology for its carelessness in its first
Safeway bombing
iii.
A Night Without City Light—In which the
Brigade deprives an affluent suburb of power on New Year’s Eve and bombs
Safeway—again—to show that they can be precise in the damage that they
inflict
iv.
Dog Day Afternoon—In which comrades go for a
bank vault and are shot and captured
v.
Jailbreak!—In
which Brown, Cook and free Sherman, and shoot a police officer in
the process
vi.
Clueless in Seattle—In which the Office of
the United States Attorney uses the Brigade as an occasion to
investigate the city’s Left, provoking popular ire
vii.
Ed Mead Gets His Day in Court—In which the
captured bank robber puts U.S. imperialism on trial, and is convicted
III.
Trials and Tribulations
i.
Underground in Oregon—In which the Brigade
licks its wounds, while Brown becomes “The Gentleman Bankrobber”
ii.
Back with a Bang!—In which the
Brigade returns to Seattle with a high profile string of bombings
iii.
Crying a River—In which the disintegration
of the Brigade is related through the diary entries of a heartbroken
Bertram
iv.
This Old Cage—In which Brown is
reacquainted with the jailed life, and discovers she has friends in low
places
v.
“I am an Amazon!”—In which Brown
accepts responsibility for her actions, and proclaims herself innocent
of any real crime
vi.
The Circus Comes to Town—In which
and Sherman make the most of media attention by employing a ‘political’
defense, while Bertram quietly accepts a plea bargain
IV.
Imprisonment
A. Ed Mead: “Political Prisoner”
i.
Battle in “Big Red”—In which Mead
becomes a “Walla Walla Brother” in an intensive struggle in the
Intensive Security Unit
ii.
The
Anti-Exploits of Men Against Sexism—On the impossibility of remaining
passive in the face of rape
iii.
Flight of the Red Dragon—In which
Mead and company threaten all they’ve created in a desperate effort to
fly the coop
iv.
The End of the Line—In which Mead is
exiled to the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois, the most
secure prison in the country, and is promptly ejected for triggering a
riot
v.
Southern Discomfort—In which Mead
takes pride in being a “nigger-lovin’ commie fag” in the Confederacy
vi.
The Lowest Among Us—In which Mead
tears the “chemical straightjackets” off of inmates in the psych ward in
Florence, Arizona, and braves a Herculean ordeal to snuggle with a pen
pal
vii.
American Samizdat—In which
Mead professionalizes the alternative press behind bars
B. Rita “Bo” Brown: A Butch Behind Bars
V. Cold New World
i. Stone Butch Blues—In which Brown is released from prison and drinks in the delights and disappointments of life on the outside
ii. Into the Flood Again—In which Mead, upon his exit from prison, discovers that the injustices that provoked his initial incarceration have become even more pronounced
Outro
Ecotopia
Armed—Dreams and Realities of Paramilitary Organizations in the Pacific
Northwest
i.
Direct Action
ii.
The Order
iii.
The Animal Liberation Front and the
Earth Liberation Front
iv.
White Skin, Black Masks: The
Anti-Capitalist Black Bloc
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