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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Seattle, Washington In Reply, Please Refer to January ¢, 1978 File No. _~ and BRUCE SEIDEL. Two references were listed as RITA BROWN RE: GEORGE JACKSON BRIGADE GEORGE JACKSON, a member of a group of dissident prisoners termed the "Soledad: Brothers" at Soledad State Prison, ; California, in 1970, was a prolific writer, who stated that the U.S. Government is "fascist" and should be resisted by "people's urban-guerrilla activity". JACKSON was incarcerated at San Quentin Prison, California, when during a violent riot and attempted prison break, he ran into the prison yard and was shot and killed by a guard, on August 11, 1971. Development of the George Jackson Brigade (GJB) In October, 1972, an organization was formed at Washington State Reformatory (WSR), Monroe, Washington, as an outgrowth of Adult aviigzk Release & Seattle Opportunities Center, Seattle, and-W Release Programs at the WSR. The : organization, called/“Awareness Project" published a pewehaPen yc. & ~ 2a called *Stnfighter". “The staff of that newspaper included vari as ‘persons, “including JOHN SHERMAN, EDWARD ALLEN MEAD and THERESE COUPEZ. COUPEZ was also listed as an "outside sponsor". During 1973, certain volunteers from the Awareness Project, led by JOHN WILLIAM SHERMAN of the Washington State Prisoner's Labor Union Support Committee, Seattle, Washington; attempted to form a prisoner's union within the WSR at Monroe, Washington. Denied this by prison authorities, the group of volunteers then attempted to promote a sitdown program and encouraged prisoners to commit acts of sabotage within the prison, but without success. EDWARD ALLEN MEAD was also a member of that group. Proved ineffective, and growing radical, the Awareness Project volunteer lost support and began to fade out about 1974. The "Sunfighter" newspaper continued as a radical prisoner-protest Usid. hose staff in 1974, included MARK EDWIN Cook. 3 ISPS Z ~| Fe eine This document contains neither - . recommendations nor conclusions ® of the FBI. It is the property ' of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.