[[File:8a David Gilbert mugshot.jpg|frame|right|300px|David Gilbert's booking photo, 1981.<ref>''Ambush:The Brinks Robbery of 1981'', truTV - Crime Library: [http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/8.html truTV - Crime Library: Terrorists, The Weather Underground & Black Liberation Army]</ref>]]
'''David Joseph Gilbert''' (born October 6, 1944 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a high-level [[Students for a Democratic Society]] (SDS) and [[Weather Underground Organization]] (WUO) operative now serving an extended prison sentence in [[New York]] state for his role in the 1981 robbery of an armored truck in which two police officers and a Brinks guard were killed. Gilbert was a member of the Maoist Ayers/Dohrn Action Faction which expelled [[Communist Party USA]] (CPUSA) members from SDS leadership. Without Moscow and CPUSA backing, WUO operatives turned to bank robbery and armored truck heists to fund revolutionary activity in the [[United States]]
Gilbert was highly active in SDS activities during the [[Columbia University]] strike in 1968 and became SDS Regional [[Community organizing|Community Organizer]]. Gilbert's fingerprints were found at a WUO bomb factory in [[San FransiscoFrancisco]]. Gilbert is also affiliated with the [[Prairie Fire Organizing Committee]].[[Image:U.S_Imperialism.JPG|frame|left|100px]]
At a debate at the University of Denver on November 11, 1969, Gilbert stated a violent [[Third World]] revolution was only way to achieve the goal of "world communism."<ref>Foreign Influence - Weather Underground Organization (WUO). FBI Chicago Field Office Report, August 20, 1976. [http://foia.fbi.gov/weather/weath2a.pdf Page 202 in original (p. 17 pdf).]</ref>
[[Image:U.S_Imperialism.JPG|frame|right|100px|]]Gilbert co-authored the SDS booklet, ''U.S. Imperialism,''<ref>[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/chicago-obama.pdf ''Communism in Chicago and the Obama Connection''], Cliff Kincaid, America's Survival, Inc., pp. 1, 8 pdf.</ref> whose first page includes a quote from the [[The Communist Manifesto]]. He wrote the book, ''No Surrender: Writings from an Anti-imperialist Political Prisoner,'' which includes an endorsement on the back cover from [[Ward Churchill]], the college professor who achieved notoriety for comparing victims of the [[September 11, 2001 terror attacks]] to [[Nazi]]s.
Chesa Boudin, the son of [[Kathy Boudin]] and David Gilbert, was raised by [[Bernardine Dohrn]] and [[Bill Ayers]] because Gilbert and the child's mother went to prison.
==See also==
*[[Alliance for Global Justice]]
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