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Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (view source)
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'''Prairie Fire Organizing Committee''' ('''PFOC''')
'''Prairie Fire Organizing Committee''' ('''PFOC''')
The PFOC, formed in 1974, was the publishing arm of the [[Weather Underground
Organization]] (WUO), the [[terrorist]] spin-off from [[Students For a Democratic Society]] (SDS). Its first pamphlet was ''Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-imperialism'', written by [[Bernardine Dohrn]], [[Bill Ayers]] and Jeff Jones. According to Prof. Harvey Klehr:
:It announced that "we are communist men and women" and urged its supporters to form an above-ground arm of the WUO. Chapters soon formed in several cities with perhaps a thousand members. Members of PFOC helped facilitate communication and logistics for WUO members living underground.<ref>Klehr, 1988, 109.</ref> The PFOC also published Breakthrough, a quarterly journal which routinely called for widespread violent resistance to U. S. imperialism, and ran article after article praising third-world single party Marxist-Leninist dictatorships.
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