The Seattle Liberation Front (SLF), organized by University of Washington professor Michael Lerner in January 1970, was a short-lived radical organization arising out of the student movements of the 1960s. The group became famous when conspiracy charges against seven of its members were filed in connection with a protest at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Seattle. On February 17, over 2000 demonstrators carried on running battles with the police, breaking windows in the U.S. Courthouse and downtown businesses. The heavily politicized trail resulted in a mistrial. Though some of its individual members became influential over the following years, the SLF as a group disbanded in 1971.

In this 12-page booklet, the Seattle Liberation Front lays out its program to liberate the oppressed and revolutionize society. Among the points in its plan as laid out in this booklet are: to allow and support people to "express and develop the revolution" through artistic creativity; to fight American imperialism; to support the struggles of women and people of color for self-determination; to halt the destruction of the natural environment; to revolutionize high schools and universities to "serve the people"; to protect and expand drug culture; to support basic human needs like housing, health care and childcare; and to defend against the oppression of "law and order" by any means necessary.

Caption information source: Seattle Liberation Front by Walt Crowley, HistoryLink.org Essay no. 2131.