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DIRECT ACTION MEMOIRS OF AN URBAN GUERRILLA This page intentionally left blank 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 Every reasonable effort has been made to identify copyright holders. Between the Lines would be pleased to have any errors or omissions brought to its attention. First published in Canada in 2001 by Published in the rest of the world Between the Lines in 2002 by 720 Bathurst Street, Suite #404 AK Press Toronto, Ontario 674-A 23rd Street M5S 2R4 Oakland, California 94612-1163 www.btlbooks.com U.S.A. www.akpress.org All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be photocopied, reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission of Between the Lines, or (for photocopying in Canada only) CANCOPY, 1 Yonge Street, Suite 1900, Toronto, Ontario, M5E 1E5. U.S. and U.K. CIP have been applied for. 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 Between the Lines gratefully acknowledges assistance for its publishing activities 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. This page intentionally left blank 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 This page intentionally left blank Preface