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Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (view source)
Revision as of 17:09, August 18, 2009
, 17:09, August 18, 2009img; '''Status: Organized, possibly active'''
[[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]]. According to Prof. Harvey Klehr:
'''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]]. 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>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 [[Marxist-Leninist]] dictatorships.
: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>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 [[Marxist-Leninist]] dictatorships.
==Profile==
Target countries: [[United States]]
Target countries: [[United States]]
Status: Organized, possibly active
'''Status: Organized, possibly active'''
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