San Francisco Police Officers Association told to shut-up

The San Francisco Police Officers Association's leadership has been told to muzzle it after signing a letter accusing onetime Weather Underground radical Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, of being behind the nearly 40-year-old bombing at a San Francisco police station that killed a sergeant.

Shutup already: We hear that both U.S. Justice Department reps and Police Chief Heather Fong put in calls to the union to find out just what they were doing talking out of school about an active investigation that may be ready to make a move soon in the 1970 bombing at Park Station.

The word was, button your lips.

Loose lips sink ships: Police Officers Association President Gary Delagnes confirmed that his union got a call from federal investigators telling them they had an "active investigation and should not be commenting on the case."

Still unable to shut up: Delagnes said the letter was meant only to show support for the family of the slain officer, Sgt. Brian McDonnell, and to help them "bring closure to the case."

Fact: No one has ever been charged in the bombing, and Ayers said last week he had nothing to do with it.

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Possibly related article: Diana Block: Activist's memoir of life underground

The activist celebrates the release of "Arm the Spirit: A Woman's Journey Underground and Back" with a reading and discussion about the book on Sunday at the Women's Building and next Thursday at City Lights, both in San Francisco.

Block spent more than a decade as part of a radical underground group, then running from the FBI.

In the '70s, Block, who was in her 20s and living in the Bay Area, became a radical feminist organizer and supporter of the Puerto Rican independence movement. In 1981, she and five others moved to Los Angeles and formed a clandestine group. Four years later, they discovered they were being watched by the FBI and fled.

Block and her partner, Claude Marks, toting their newborn son, lived in motels at times, with their son sleeping in dresser drawers. They spent nearly a decade working regular jobs and making friends with neighbors under new identities. But eventually the group's urge to do public activist work took over - plus, Marks and Block realized that living a double life meant keeping their true identities from their children - and the group surrendered to authorities in 1994. As part of the negotiations, Marks - who is now Block's husband and founder of the Freedom Archives, a collection of audio recordings of progressive history - served four years in prison, and a co-defendant served two, for conspiracy to transport explosives.

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