Brigade members Ed Mead and Walla Walla Black Panther Mark Cook speak about their experiences in the Brigade and as political prisoners.
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. (www.gjbip.org)
Brigade members Ed Mead and Walla Walla Black Panther Mark Cook speak the day after the 2008 presidential election at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA about their experiences in the Brigade and as political prisoners. They also speak about prisoners' struggles, armed struggle, anti-imperialist solidarity, revolutionary defeatism, community organizing, fighting racism and sexism, American exceptionalism, electoralism and Barack Obama.
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