Come listen to George Jackson Brigade freedom fighter Mark Cook!
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Come listen to George Jackson Brigade freedom fighter Mark Cook!
Friday, February 19, 2016
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Flying Squirrel Community Space
285 Clarissa St.
Rochester, NY
Donations welcome!
Wheelchair accessible.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1676199512618881/1676248002614032/
Mark is a former political prisoner and the George Jackson Brigade was a Seattle-based guerrilla group that committed several bank sabotage bombings, bank robberies and prison breaks across the northwest. The GJB was noted for being an especially diverse group which included a number of ex-prisoners, and queer members. Mark was the group's African American member.
Read this exciting tidbit is from Wikipedia:
On January 23, 1976, the Tukwila branch of the Pacific National Bank was robbed by several armed men including Mead, Sherman, Siedel, and Cook. Mead was captured, Sherman was wounded in the jaw, and Seidel was killed. Cook fled in a car. Six weeks later, Cook freed Sherman after shooting his police escort(King County Sheriff Officer Virgil Johnson) as they walked out of Harborview Medical Center...
Special thanks to Buffalo's Burning Books for getting him here!
