Susan Rosenberg

For the cancer research scientist, see Susan M. Rosenberg. For the developmental psychologist, see Sue Rosenberg Zalk.

Susan Lisa Rosenberg (born October 5, 1955)[1] is an American activist, writer, advocate for social justice and prisoners' rights. From the late 1970s into the mid-1980s, Rosenberg was active in the far-left terrorist[2][3][4] May 19th Communist Organization ("M19CO") which, according to a contemporaneous FBI report, "openly advocate[d] the overthrow of the U.S. Government through armed struggle and the use of violence".[5] M19CO provided support to an offshoot of the Black Liberation Army, including in armored truck robberies, and later engaged in bombings of government buildings, including the 1983 Capitol bombing.[6]

After living as a fugitive for three years, Rosenberg was arrested in 1984 while in possession of a large cache of explosives and firearms, including automatic weapons. She had also been sought as an accomplice in the 1979 prison escape of Assata Shakur and in the 1981 Brink's robbery that resulted in the deaths of two police officers and a guard,[7] although she was never charged in either case. Convicted after a trial on the weapons and explosives charges, Rosenberg was sentenced to 58 years' imprisonment. She spent 16 years in prison, during which she became a poet, author, and AIDS activist. Her sentence was commuted to time served by President Bill Clinton on January 20, 2001,[8] his final day in office.[9][10]

  1. ^ Rosenau 2020.
  2. ^ Rosenau, William (2019). Tonight we bombed the U.S. Capitol : the explosive story of M19, America's first female terrorist group (First Atria Books hardcover ed.). New York. ISBN 978-1-5011-7012-6. OCLC 1096235272.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ Magazine, Smithsonian; Thulin, Lila. "In the 1980s, a Far-Left, Female-Led Domestic Terrorism Group Bombed the U.S. Capitol". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  4. ^ Rosenau, William (3 May 2020b). "The Dark History of America's First Female Terrorist Group". POLITICO. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference USDoJ was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Rosenau, William (April 3, 2020). "The Dark History of America's First Female Terrorist Group". Politico.
  7. ^ Raab, Selwyn (1984-12-01). "Radical fugitive in brink's robbery arrested". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-04-19. A Weather Underground fugitive who had been sought for two years in the $1.6 million Brink's robbery and murder case has been arrested in New Jersey by a police officer who became suspicious of her ill-fitting wig.
  8. ^ "Clinton Pardon's List". The Washington Post. Associated Press. January 20, 2001. Archived from the original on January 15, 2012. Retrieved July 23, 2017.
  9. ^ "An Exclusive Interview with Susan Rosenberg After President Clinton Granted Her Executive clemency". Democracy Now!. 2001-01-23. Retrieved 2013-05-03.
  10. ^ Christopher, Tommy (April 16, 2008). "Clinton has Bigger Weather Underground Problem". Political Machine. AOL News. Archived from the original on April 21, 2008. Retrieved June 23, 2009.