Event: Speaker: Mark Cook of the George Jackson Brigade

Location

Downstairs

Bottomliner

TBA

When

• Fri 2/19/2016, 7:00pm-9:00pm

Mark is a former political prisoner and the GJB was a Seattle-based guerrilla group that committed several bank sabotage bombings, bank robberies and prison breaks across the NW. The GJB was noted for being an especially diverse group which included a number of ex-prisoners, and queer members.

This exciting tidbit is from Wikipedia:
On January 23, 1976, the Tukwila branch of the Pacific National Bank was robbed by several armed men including Mead, Sherman, Siedel, and Cook. Mead was captured, Sherman was wounded in the jaw, and Seidel was killed. Cook fled in a car. Six weeks later, Cook freed Sherman after shooting his police escort(King County Sheriff Officer Virgil Johnson) as they walked out of Harborview Medical Center…