Author: Prairie Fire Organizing Committee
Title: Evaluation of Hand to Mouth, the Food Action Committee of Boston P.F.O.C.
Description: n.p. n.p. n.d.[ca. 1975?]. 28x21cm, 12 pp. Caption-titled.Corner margin of first page clipped. An interior document of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee.. Stencilled [mimeographed]. Stapled. Good. ¶ Consists of 6pp double-side pages of evaluation + 6 single-side leaflets issued by the Boston PFOC Food Action Committee [based at Redbook in Central Square, Cambridge].["...Weather Underground’s ideology changed direction in the early 1970’s. With help from former Progressive Labor member, Clayton Van Lydegraf, the Weather Underground sought a more Marxist-Leninist approach. The leading members of the Weather Underground collaborated on ideas and published their manifesto: 'Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti- Imperialism'. By the summer of 1974, five thousand copies had surfaced in coffee houses and bookstores across America. Leftist newspapers praised the manifesto. Abbie Hoffman publicly praised Prairie Fire and believed every American should be given a copy. The manifesto’s influence initiated the formation of the 'Prairie Fire Organizing Committee' in several American cities. Hundreds of above-ground activists helped further the new political vision of the Weather Underground. In the late 1970s, the Weatherman group further split into two factions — the "May 19 Coalition" and the "Prairie Fire Collective" — with Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers in the latter. The Prairie Fire Collective favored coming out of hiding, with members facing the criminal charges against them, while the May 19 Coalition continued in hiding...." - wikipedia].

Keywords: American Political History, Weather, Underground, Radicalism Radical, New Left Politics, United States, Weatherman SDS, Boston Prairie Fire, Organizing, Committee