http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/03/17/3198391

Extract...In 1982, five Canadian anti-authoritarian activists, variously 
known as Direct Action, the Wimmin's Fire Brigade, and the Vancouver Five, 
conducted a highly visible series of guerrilla actions against patriarchal, 
industrial civilization. When the five anarchists - two wimmin and three 
men-- who comprised these cells were finally captured by the Canadian state 
in 1983, they were charged with a host of clandestine attacks on industries 
that represented some of the most notorious war criminals, environmental 
despoilers, and exploiters of wimmin and children.
The most serious charges that these anarchists faced when they were caught 
were related to three bombing operations, all conducted in support of 
massive public campaigns of protest: one against the Litton Systems plant 
near Toronto, where parts for Cruise missiles are made; another against the 
environmentally destructive Cheekye-Dunsmuir power project of British 
Columbia on Vancouver Island; and also a smattering against retail stores 
of Red Hot Video in Vancouver, where videotapes glorifying rape and other 
forms of savagery toward woman and children were sold. In addition, the 
Five were also charged with conspiring to hold up a Brinks armored car to 
finance their struggle (the hold-up never took place) and a variety of 
other weapon offenses...MORE at 
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