Direct Action :Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla

510 Pages·2002·23.805 MB·English

by  Ann Hansen

DIRECT ACTION
MEMOIRS OF AN
URBAN GUERRILLA
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DIRECT ACTION
MEMOIRS OF AN
URBAN GUERRILLA
ANNHANSEN
BETWEEN THE LINES AK PRESS
TORONTO EDINBURGH, LONDON, OAKLAND
Direct Action
Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla
© 2001, 2002 by Ann Hansen
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National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data
Hansen, Ann, 1953-
Direct Action: memoirs of an urban guerrilla
ISBN 1-896357-40-7
1. Hansen, Ann, 1953- 2. Direct Action (Group) 3. Anarchists — Canada.
4. Terrorists — Canada. I. Title.
HV6430.H35A3 2001 320.5'7'0971 C2001-901905-X
AK Press edition (outside Canada) ISBN 1-902593-48-0
Front cover photograph: Police examine the damage done by a bomb blast to
the Litton Systems Canada Ltd. building in Toronto, October 15, 1982. (CP
Picture Archive)
Cover design by David Vereschagin, Quadrat Communications
Page preparation by Steve Izma
Printed in Canada by Transcontinental Printing
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from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the
Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development
Program.
Canada
For those who struggle so our planet can flourish;
for those whose names may never be known.
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Contents
Preface / ix
Photos / xiii
Part I
Somewhere near Squamish / 1
Part II
Going Underground / 19
Part III
Doing Cheekeye-Dunsmuir and Litton / 181
Part IV
Under Surveillance / 291
Epilogue / 459
Appendices
Communique Regarding the Cheekeye-Dunsmuir Bombing / 475
The Litton Bombing Communique / 477
Wimmin's Fire Brigade Communique, November 22, 1982 / 487
Ann Hansen's Statement to the Court before Sentencing / 489
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Preface