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Oregon State Police Files Shed Light on the Investigation into the Earth Liberation Front’s Christmas 1999 Arson Attack on Boise Cascade by Leslie James Pickering See the full article, with images and a link to the full OSP file at DCSC: http://www.dcsc.ws/?page_id=8   Between 1997 and 2002, Leslie James Pickering and Craig Rosebraugh ran the Earth Liberation Front Press Office, exercising free speech in support of the FBI’s “number-one domestic terrorist priority” and becoming the targets of much federal surveillance and repression as a result. Over a decade later, Leslie discovered that his associates are being questioned by the FBI,...

WFBO/NPR, Monday, December 8, 2014 By Mike Desmond The road between Ferguson, Missouri and Buffalo is getting a little more crowded. A protest rally was held Sunday night in a Connecticut Street bookstore. With Buffalo police cars parked outside and others cruising by, activists talked inside Burning Books, a frequent meeting place for radical causes. It was to hear from Emmaculate Jones, a member of Black Souljahz and a neighbor in Ferguson of Michael Brown, a black teenager killed by a white police officer in August. Jones met with several Buffalo residents in Ferguson who invited him to come and...

The Weather Underground: Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn speak at Burning Books Tuesday, October 7 re-published from; http://blogs.artvoice.com/exitmusic/2014/10/03/former-leaders-of-the-weather-underground-to-speak-at-burning-books/ It might be surprising to some that a man who has written books with titles like To Become a Teacher: Making a Difference in Children’s Lives, A Kind and Just Parent, and Teaching For Social Justice: A Democracy and Education Reader has also claimed responsibility for politically motivated bombings of the United States Capitol building and the Pentagon in the 1960s. Or that a woman who was a professor of law at a Children and Family Justice Center has been on the...

Burning Books presents Ray Luc Levasseur re-published from: http://artvoice.com/issues/v13n36/see_you_there What causes activism to turn violent? What motivates a movement to take up arms? Understanding why an individual or group would resort to violence in the name of revolution is important in understanding political radicalism, and former political prisoner Ray Luc Levasseur can surely provide some insight into that. Levasseur, organizer of the American Marxist organization, the United Freedom Front, served 18 years in prison for Seditious Conspiracy after a series of bombings that targeted corporations like Union Carbide, IBM, and South African Airways, for their support of apartheid in South...