[4] It engaged in a number of bombings and other revolutionary attacks on governmental and business sites, as well as bank robberies over the years from 1975 through 1977.

In 1974 Ed Mead traveled to San Francisco, just a few years after his release from prison for a pharmacy burglary, hoping to connect with the Symbionese Liberation Army.

[5] However, when he arrived there he joined with another group, the New World Liberation Front or NWLF, where he learned to make pipe bombs.

The main goal of the George Jackson Brigade was the dismantling of the United States government, to be replaced with a collectivist form of leadership.

Then on March 21, 1978, Sherman, Coupez, and Brown's girlfriend, Janine Bertram, were arrested in a Tacoma restaurant right before executing another robbery.

[8] According to a report published by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism for the United States Department of Homeland Security's DHS Science and Technology Directorate, the George Jackson Brigade was ranked fifteenth among terrorist groups that perpetrated the most terrorist attacks in the United States between 1970 and 2011.