Rising Up Angry Newspaper

Front page of Rising Up Angry's newspaper May 14, 1972.  The escalation referred to was the bombing of Hanoi and the mining of Haiphong Harbor.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ITSb--T7pGix1xc0A4BtwF2fWh2PAcqL/view?usp=sharing

April 1971--Organizing Against the US War on Vietnam

Spring 1971.  Organizing for a spring offensive against the war in Vietnam was well underway. Hundreds of local and national organizations were planning protests, civil disobedience and direct action.  The largest protests were planned for the belly of the beast--Washington, DC.  Foremost among these were the Dewey Canyon II protests organized by Vietnam Veterans  Against the War, the week of protests and lobbying organized by the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice (a collection of hundreds of antiwar groups), and the MayDay Tribe's call for direct action under the slogan "If the government won't stop the war, the people will stop the government."  The link below connects to a semi-satirical call to action for the protests that was published in Atlanta's underground paper The Great Speckled Bird.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-VVNRbIM3zsTE351rT_nWZZgzyAVMD3A8ZFYPa5mAEXNT-geKFfx95N0J_MMnxKszJmiG3FaYCKGN1mK/view?usp=sharing

Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) Hits Patti Hearst and Steven Weed's Apartment and Then the News

On February 4, 1974, the SLA kidnapped Hearst heiress Patti Hearst was kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, CA. Within days, the kidnappers released ransom demands, including a demand for free food to be distributed to working people in the San Francisco Bay Area.  This link describes food distribution efforts...
http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_Legacy_of_the_SLA

These two links connect to the first two pages of the issue of the Berkeley underground The Berkeley Barb that was released after the ransom demands were published....

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B01dj5QyuLDeZWtXQVhCc1BlTmc/view?usp=sharing


https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B01dj5QyuLDed1FrY2VLbUJKajg/view?usp=sharing

The Italian Spring of 1977

"On March 11, 1977, in the city the Italian Communist Party had governed since 1945, the carabinieri shot an unarmed medical student, Francesco Lorusso, 25, during an autonomist demonstration.  Pitched battles ensued between students and the police, with barricaded streets and Molotov cocktails used on one side, and tear gas and rubber bullets on the other side. Tanks rumbled down Via Rizzoli. French intellectuals Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Felix Guattari, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others denounced the state’s repressive methods. In September, student groups forced the municipal government to sponsor a three-day, national conference against repression in the city, with free food and use of the sports stadium made available to the 100,000 people who came to Bologna."

I cover the Spring of 1977 throughout Italy in my book Daydream Sunset.  It was a revolutionary moment that freaked out everyone to its political right, including the Italian Communist Party.  The quote above is from the article linked to below.  Make sure you check out some of the links at the bottom of the linked article.....

http://www.iitaly.org/magazine/focus/life-people/article/bologna-1977

Takeover of Bureau of Indian Affairs....Mutiny on the USS Constellation: November 1972

On November 2, 1972, members of the American Indian Movement occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs building in Washington , DC.
https://washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/native-americans-take-over-bureau-of-indian-affairs-1972/

Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, sailors were staging a mutiny on board the USS Constellation.  This was after a riot on board the Kitty Hawk a couple weeks earlier....
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B01dj5QyuLDeWXJvWXl4SE9KZEU/view?usp=sharing

Seasoned Veteran:Journey of a Winter Soldier

Discussed in Daydream Sunset....

Blast From the Past--1969

This piece first appeared in the now defunct newspaper edited by Shay Totten--the Vermont Times....it was reprinted in Counterpunch a few years later...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/01/13/a-blast-from-the-past/

The Story of the Late and Great Washington Free Press

Authorities took the challenge represented by the underground media seriously.  This article from the Spark website composed and maintained by Craig Simpson tells the story of a campaign of police and judicial harassment in the Washington DC area.

https://washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/washington-free-press-battles-suppression-1969-70/#comment-1679