Editing Symbionese Liberation Army (section)

== Cultural impact ==
[[File:Symbionese swedish.jpg |thumb |upright |The SLA [[manifesto]] for sale in a magazine store in [[Stockholm]] in August 2008.]]
The SLA distributed photographs, news releases and radio-quality taped interviews in which they explained their activities to the press. The '''Bay Area Research Collective''' was formed as an above-ground support group for the SLA, and distributed a [[Mimeograph|mimeographed]] newsletter, ''The Dragon''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.freedomarchives.org/search.php?view_collection=344|title=the dragon|publisher=The Freedom Archives}}  Issues 1–10 (1975 to September 1976) are available for download.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bolerium.com/cgi-bin/bol48/184438.html|title=Symbionese Liberation Army: support / criticize / love them|publisher=Bolerium Books|access-date=2016-07-09|archive-date=2016-09-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914090648/http://www.bolerium.com/cgi-bin/bol48/184438.html|url-status=dead}}.  This commercial site offers this pamphlet for sale, dated 6/74.</ref>  

Since that time the SLA's activities have been covered in other ways in the media. These include films and television shows, such as:

* ''[[Abduction (1975 film)|Abduction]]'' (1975), directed by [[Joseph Zito]] (based on ''Black Abductors'' by [[Harrison James (author)|Harrison James]])
* ''[[Tanya (1976 film)|Tanya]]'' (1976), directed by Nate Rodgers (also known as ''Sex Queen of the SLA'')
* ''[[Patty (film)|Patty]]'' (1976), directed by Robert L. Roberts
* ''The Ordeal of Patty Hearst'' (1979) (TV)
* ''[[Patty Hearst (film)|Patty Hearst]]'' (1988), directed by [[Paul Schrader]], based on Hearst's autobiography ''Every Secret Thing'' (1982)
* ''Citizen Tania'' (1989), written and directed by artist [[Raymond Pettibon]]
* ''Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst'' (2004), directed by [[Robert Stone (director)|Robert Stone]] (It was released under the alternate title ''Neverland: The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army''.)
* ''The Radical Story of Patty Hearst'' (2018) (TV); the [[Cable News Network]] produced a six-part docuseries on Patty Hearst. It featured on-air statements by several former members of the SLA. The report also contained several statements by [[Jeffrey Toobin]], author of the ''American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst.'' The docuseries indirectly adapts Toobin's book as part of the report.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://reason.com/archives/2018/02/09/cnns-patty-hearst-docuseries-shows-surpr|title=CNN's Patty Hearst Docuseries Shows Surprising Depth|first=Glenn |last=Garvin |date=9 February 2018|website=Reason.com|access-date=3 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/02/patty-hearst-kidnapping-cnn-jeffrey-toobin|title=There Are Still No Easy Answers in the Curious Case of Patty Hearst|first=Lisa|last=Liebman|website=HWD|date=9 February 2018 |access-date=3 January 2019}}</ref>
* The freeware game ''Liberal Crime Squad'' by Tarn Adams is a satirical game that allows the player to change policies using the methods of the SLA in order to win the game.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/Kamal-Sadek/Liberal-Crime-Squad|title=GitHub – Kamal-Sadek/Liberal-Crime-Squad: An updated version of ''Liberal Crime Squad''.|date=October 5, 2019|access-date=October 10, 2019|via=GitHub}}</ref>

[[Patti Smith]]'s 1974 single of [[Jimi Hendrix]]'s 1960s song "[[Hey Joe]]" begins with a salacious and provocative monologue about Patty Hearst and the SLA. She put a feminist spin on lyrics that Hendrix wrote about a man who murders his adulterous wife and flees to Mexico.

<blockquote>Honey, the way you play guitar makes me feel so... makes me feel so...''masochistic''. The way you go down low deep into the neck... and I would do anything... and I would do anything. And Patty Hearst, you standing there in front of the Symbionese Liberation Army flag with your legs spread. I was wondering: were you gettin' it every night from a black revolutionary man and his women? Or were you really dead? And now that you're on the run, what goes on in your mind? Your sisters they sit by the window. You know, your mama does sit and cry. And your daddy—well, you know what your daddy said Patty. You know what your daddy said, Patty? He said... he said... he said.... "Well, sixty days ago she was such a lovely child. Now here she is, with a gun in her hand.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metrolyrics.com/hey-joe-lyrics-patti-smith.html|title=Patti Smith – Hey Joe Lyrics|website=Metrolyrics.com|access-date=3 January 2019|archive-date=13 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813044147/http://www.metrolyrics.com/hey-joe-lyrics-patti-smith.html|url-status=unfit}}</ref></blockquote>

Smith's version effectively casts Patty Hearst in the role of Joe "with a gun in her hand"—a violent criminal rebelling against the law and all civil authority.<ref name="patti">{{cite web|title=Patti Smith Biography|website=[[AllMusic]]|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p126485/biography|pure_url=yes}}|access-date=2009-07-27}}</ref> Before the [[fade (filmmaking)|fade]]out, Smith sings in the voice of Hearst angrily repudiating both her privileged upbringing and the mainstream society that condemned her as a spoiled, vacuous "pretty little rich girl" who became a terrorist. Smith made this recording when Patty Hearst was still a fugitive and members of the SLA were still at large.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/06/05/patty-smith-adds-poetry-to-hey-joe|title=Patti Smith adds poetry to 'Hey Joe'|first=Cathy|last=Wurzer|website=Mprnews.org|date=June 5, 2014 |access-date=3 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.openculture.com/2014/12/patti-smiths-passionate-covers.html|title=Patti Smith's Passionate Covers of Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, Jefferson Airplane & Prince|date=December 11, 2014|access-date=3 January 2019}}</ref>

The [[Ramones]]' song "Judy is a Punk", which appeared on their [[Ramones (album)|self-titled debut album]] in 1976, contains the lyrics "Jackie is a punk, Judy is a runt, they both went down to Frisco, joined the SLA."

The 1976 film ''[[Network (1976 film)|Network]]'' features a Maoist insurgent group, the Ecumenical Liberation Army. Although the film distinguishes it from the SLA, it is plainly a parody of the group and its relationship with the television business.<ref>{{cite book|first=Ralph|last=Clare|year=2014|title=Fictions Inc.: The Corporation in Postmodern Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture|page=83}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first1=Peter|last1=Braunstein|first2=Michael William|last2=Doyle|year=2013|title=Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s and 70s|page=5}}</ref> Over the course of the film, the ELA kidnaps an heiress and reeducates her into the group, robs a bank, and negotiates with the titular network for its own prime-time program, ''The Mao Tse-Tung Hour''.

The Norwegian rock band [[Turbonegro]] included a modified six-headed version of the seven-headed cobra symbol for the front cover of their 1998 album ''[[Apocalypse Dudes]]''.

The band [[Deadsy]] also used the cobra symbol to represent their street team known as the "LStaff".

The episode "Inheritance" from the [[CBS]] action-drama series ''[[S.W.A.T. (2017 TV series)|S.W.A.T.]]'' focuses on a group of criminals with nearly similar motives and tactics as the SLA, later identified as ''The Emancipators''.

The [[Horror punk]] band [[Misfits (band)|Misfits]] have a song named "She" on their debut album ''[[Static Age]]''; it is about the Patty Hearst case and the ensuing controversy.