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THE BOMBING CAMPAIGN (1975–1977)
The Bombing Campaign (1975–1977)

Between May 1975 and 1977 the Brigade carried out roughly twenty bombings and attempted bombings around Puget Sound and Oregon, each tied by communiqué to a specific struggle: the Washington Department of Corrections offices and the state Capitol in Olympia for the treatment of prisoners at Walla Walla; Safeway stores during grocery-worker and farmworker disputes; FBI offices, power substations during a City Light workers' strike; and the Rainier National Bank. Warnings were telephoned and the actions caused property damage rather than casualties — with one exception the group itself condemned and apologized for, a Safeway blast that injured customers when the store refused to evacuate.

The campaign's signature was accountability to above-ground movements: communiqués debated tactics with local activists in the pages of Seattle's left press, an exchange later collected in the Brigade's anthology, Creating a Movement with Teeth.