Donald Defreeze: American Radicals and George Jackson

donald defreeze: Guerrilla, a Showtime miniseries debuting Sunday, extends his willingness to take on thorny political and social issues and his insistence on giving each stakeholder a chance to be heard, according to The Chronicle Herald. The drama also allowed Ridley, a self-described child of the '70s, to revisit his youthful, unshaded admiration for American radicals such as George Jackson of the Black Panther Party and Donald DeFreeze, known as Cinque when he led the Symbionese Liberation Army militia group that kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst. The writer, director and producer works a big canvas and does it thoughtfully, whether in his Oscar-winning screenplay for 12 Years a Slave, his ABC anthology series American Crime or his new drama about England's 1970s black power movement. As a young black man, they were just cool. But maturity and reflection gave him a different perspective on violent radicalism and its proponents, he said. They were icons of the movement, Ridley said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.