[[File:Jeffrey carl jones.jpg|thumb|341px|right|Jeff Jones, co-author of ''Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-imperialism'' along with [[Bill Ayers]] and [[Bernardine Dohrn]], was wanted by the FBI for failure to appear in court to face federal charges of "crossing state lines to foment a riot." Jones currently is the Director of the New York State Apollo Alliance for clean energy and so-called "green-collar jobs." [http://apolloalliance.org/state-local/new-york-state/new-york-state-partners/] [[Obama administration]] Green Czar [[Van Jones]] was a founder and board member of [[Apollo Alliance]]. [http://www.apolloalliance.org/index.php?s=cio] ]]
'''Prairie Fire Organizing Committee''' ('''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). The name came from a statement by [[Mao Zedong]], "a single spark can set a prairie fire." Its first pamphlet was ''Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-imperialism'', written by [[Bernardine Dohrn]], [[Bill Ayers]] and [[Jeff Jones]].
written to prisoners, women's groups, collectives, study groups, workers' [[community organizing|organizing committee]]s, communes, Gl [[community organizing|organizer]]s, consciousness-raising groups, veterans, [[community organizing|community group]]s and [[revolution]]aries of all kinds; to all who will read, criticize and bring its content to life in practice. It is written as an argument against those who oppose action and hold back the struggle."<ref>''Prarie Fire, the Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism'', Political Statement of the Weather Underground, published by Communications Co., (no place) 1974, Introduction and pp 1 and 75.</ref>
''Prarie Fire'' 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>Harvey Klehr, ''Far Left of Center: The American Radical Left Today'' (Transaction Books, New Brunswick, 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 last]] [[Marxist-Leninist]] dictatorships.
==Profile==
==See also==
*[[Communist front]]
*[[Far left]]
*[[Celia Sojourn]]
==External links==
*[https://archive.org/details/sds_papers The SDS Papers - Prairie Fire & The Port Huron Statement], Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-imperialism
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