[78], During a closed-door meeting of the Weather Underground's leadership, the decision was also taken to abolish Students for a Democratic Society. Was this review helpful to you? This consisted of a series of bombings of government and corporate targets in retaliation for specific imperialist and oppressive acts. The Weather Underground Guitar-driven alternative with shapeless shirts, threadbare jeans and DIY ethic. These grand juries caused Sylvia Jane Brown, Robert Gelbhard, and future members of the Seattle Weather Collective to be subpoenaed in Seattle and Portland for the investigation of one of the first (and last) captured WUO members. "[99], In 1973, the government requested dropping charges against most of the WUO members. We felt that doing nothing in a period of repressive violence is itself a form of violence. Through archival footage and interviews of participants on both sides of this conflict, this film covers the Weather Underground's campaign of violence through this period, the FBI's strategies and tactics to apprehend them (including some deemed unethical or illegal), until changing times and ... Hollywood To Get Its Own Drive-In Movies At Egyptian Theatre Parking Lot, Bill Siegel Dies: Emmy-Winning ‘Trials Of Muhammad Ali’ Director Was 55, Bill Siegel, Oscar-Nominated Documentary Producer, Dies at 55. One particular group, the Weather Underground, attempted to team up with the Black Panthers to violently confront the US government. Wayne State University Press, 1995, p.222, Page 110, Staughton Lynd, "From Here to There: The Staughton Lynd Reader", PM Press (2010), paperback, 305 pages, Pages 76 to 77, Arthur M. Eckstein, "Bad Moon Rising: How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution", New Haven: Yale University Press (2016), 352 pages. And we were going to kick ass. In the late 1960s, United States military action in Southeast Asia escalated, especially in Vietnam. Weather Underground provides local & long-range weather forecasts, weather reports, maps & tropical weather conditions for locations worldwide [18], In July 1969, 30 members of Weatherman leadership traveled to Cuba and met with North Vietnamese representatives to gain from their revolutionary experience. This film raises more questions than it answers--which is probably what art should always try to do. Also testifying were former Attorneys General Herbert Brownell Jr., Nicholas Katzenbach, Ramsey Clark, John N. Mitchell, and Richard G. Kleindienst, all of whom said warrantless searches in national security matters were commonplace and not understood to be illegal, but Mitchell and Kleindienst denied they had authorized any of the break-ins at issue in the trial. Crimes." Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com). This documentary follows the 2002 mayoral campaign in Newark, New Jersey in which a City Councilman, Cory Booker, attempted to unseat longtime mayor Sharpe James. The Weather Underground . Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. Weather members aimed to mobilize people into action against the established leaders of the nation and the patterns of injustice which existed in America and abroad due to America's presence overseas. Congress. However, two weeks would pass without any occurrence. [148] He has since claimed that he was misquoted. These older members found they were no longer liable for federal prosecution because of illegal wire taps and the government's unwillingness to reveal sources and methods favored a strategy of inversion where they would be above ground "revolutionary leaders". Dohrn received three years' probation and a $15,000 fine. The Weather Underground hoped to create underground collectives in major cities throughout the country. [22][107] The name came from a quote by Mao Zedong, "a single spark can set a prairie fire." Ayers, who co-founded the Weather Underground in 1969, took part in the bombings of the New York City Police Department headquarters in 1970, … In 1970, the group issued a "Declaration of a State of War" against the United States government under the name "Weather Underground Organization". The lineage of the Weather Underground goes back 6 decades before its creation. San Francisco, CA. New York: Morrow & Co, Inc. No byline, UPI wire story, "Weathermen Got Name From Song: Groups Latest Designation Is Weather Underground", as published in. Put that tape on". Their goal was to create a clandestine revolutionary party for the overthrow of the US government. [22] The blast broke nearly 100 windows and scattered pieces of the statue onto the Kennedy Expressway below. Sep 2012. The Weather Underground is a feature-length documentary that explores the rise and fall of this radical movement, as former members speak candidly about the idealistic passion that drove them to "bring the war home" and the trajectory that placed them on the FBI's most wanted list. It had been signed by Karen Ashley, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, John Jacobs, Jeff Jones, Gerry Long, Howie Machtinger, Jim Mellen, Terry Robbins, Mark Rudd, and Steve Tappis. [22], Some members remained underground and joined splinter radical groups. Most former Weathermen have integrated into mainstream society without repudiating their violent activities. Spellbound follows eight teenagers on their quest to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee. Jacobs, R. (1997). pgs. The Sad Story Of..., released 01 June 2012 1. An Interracial Movement of the Poor: Community Organizing and the New Left in the 1960s. "These are things I am not proud of, and I find it hard to speak publicly about them and to tease out what was right from what was wrong. In direct actions, dubbed Jailbreaks, Weather members invaded educational institutions as a means by which to recruit high school and college students. [10], The Weathermen emerged from the campus-based opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War and from the civil rights movement of the 1960s. (Miller was fined $3,500. Conventional comforts were forbidden and the leadership was exalted, giving them immense power over their subordinates (in some collectives the leadership could even dictate personal decisions such as where one went). "[142] Dan Berger asserts in Outlaws in America that the group "purposefully and successfully avoided injuring anyone" as an argument that their actions were not terrorism. The Sad Story Of..., released 01 June 2012 1. The origins of the Weathermen can be traced to the collapse and fragmentation of the Students for a Democratic Society following a split between office holders of SDS, or "National Office", and their supporters and the Progressive Labor Party (PLP). [16] The National Action grew out of a resolution drafted by Jacobs and introduced at the October 1968 SDS National Council meeting in Boulder, Colorado. [81], According to the December 6, 1970 "New Morning—Changing Weather" Weather Underground communiqué signed by Bernardine Dohrn, and Cathy Wilkerson's 2007 memoir, the fire-bombing of Judge Murtagh's home, in solidarity with the Panther 21, was carried out by four members of the New York cell that was devastated two weeks later by the March 6, 1970 townhouse explosion.[82]. Weatherman—the Weather Underground Organization—was the most famous group of young people committed to revolutionary violence to emerge out of the late 1960s. )[120] Writing in The New York Times a week after the conviction, Roy Cohn claimed that Felt and Miller were being used as scapegoats by the Carter administration and that it was an unfair prosecution. Revenge The Sound 8. [48] Weather's political theory sought to make every struggle an anti-imperialist, anti-racist struggle; out of this premise came their interrogation of critical concepts that would later be known as "white privilege". The police claimed they shot in self-defense, although a controversy arose when the Panthers, other activists and a Chicago newspaper reporter presented visual evidence, as well as the testimony of an FBI ballistics expert, showing that the sleeping Panthers were not resisting arrest and fired only one shot, as opposed to the more than one hundred the police fired into the apartment. Can violence ever lead to reconciliation, or must it necessarily beget more violence? Beginning as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society, the Weather Underground declared all out war on the United States of America. and Jeff Jones, editors (2006). [116], The indictment charged violations of Title 18, Section 241 of the United States Code. : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive", "Statement on Granting Pardons to W. Mark Felt and Edward S. Miller", "Weathermen Underground Summary Part #2", "The Brinks Robbery of 1981 - The Crime Library - Crime Library on". The group, while small, was able to commandeer the mantle of SDS and all of its membership lists, but with Weatherman in charge there was little or no support from local branches or members of the organization,[28][29] and local chapters soon disbanded. For the youth political movement, seemingly ineffectual methods of peaceful protest and resistance led to the rise of a faction that wanted a more extreme approach that the government could not ignore. [41], The Weatherman group had long held that militancy was becoming more important than nonviolent forms of anti-war action, and that university campus-based demonstrations needed to be punctuated with more dramatic actions, which had the potential to interfere with the U.S. military and internal security apparatus. While the initial phase of the SDS involved campus organizing, phase two involved community organizing. Log in Try 7 days free. [113], After COINTELPRO was dissolved in 1971 by J. Edgar Hoover,[114] the FBI continued its counterintelligence on groups like the Weather Underground. If you sit in your house, live your white life and go to your white job, and allow the country that you live in to murder people and to commit genocide, and you sit there and you don't do anything about it, that's violence. The document called for creating a clandestine revolutionary party. The Weather Underground is a really interesting and absorbing documentary that chronicles an unsure time in America. The charges were later dropped, and the families of the dead won a $1.8 million settlement from the government. 91 likes. Written by In this episode I examine whether they were a lethal terrorist organisation, or a non-lethal militant anti-war gang. 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Some of the members still speak nostalgically about their Weathermen days and claim that they'd do it all over again; others express disdain and regret over their complicity in the deaths of innocents.As we begin to see history repeating itself in Iraq, 'The Weather Underground' is all too timely. Black Christmas 6. Around 2009, we recorded our first album in Thessaloniki at the Royal Alzheimer Hall with Christos and Titos. SDS was founded at the University of Michigan in opposition of white supremacy and in support of civil rights and economic reconstruction. In the late 1960s and early 1970s polarization of American political situation was becoming acute, with the Vietnam War abroad and civil rights at home being the most pressing issues. 6946, and S. 2043 false identification, May 5, 1982. [48] Weather put the international proletariat at the center of their political theory. The Weather Underground found it important to ally third world countries and their rebellions in order to strengthen the fight at home. The conference increased divisions within the Weather Underground. Tens of thousands have learned that protest and marches don't do it. [106] The leading members of the Weather Underground (Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Jeff Jones, and Celia Sojourn) collaborated on ideas and published a manifesto: Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, a member of the radical women's liberation group Cell 16 spoke about her personal recruitment agenda saying that she wanted their group to go out in every corner of the country and tell women the truth, recruit the local people, poor and working-class people, in order to build a new society. The Weather Underground explores the unbelievable story of the Weathermen, the notorious group of 70 s radicals who, outraged by the Vietnam War and racism in America, went underground to wage a low-level war against the U.S. government, bombing targets across the country that they felt symbolized the real violence.. From pitched battles with police on Chicago's city streets, to bombing … Bernardine Dohrn subsequently stated that it was Fred Hampton's death that prompted the Weather Underground to declare war on the U.S. government. At its most intense, members would be berated for up to a dozen or more hours non-stop about their flaws. Klonsky's document reflected the philosophy of the National Office and was eventually adopted as official SDS doctrine. [66], Berger explains the controversy surrounding recruitment strategies saying, "As an organizing strategy it was less than successful: white working class youths were more alienated than organized by Weather's spectacles, and even some of those interested in the group were turned off by its early hi-jinks. The largest event of the Days of Rage took place on Friday, October 9, when RYM II led an interracial march of 2,000 people through a Spanish-speaking part of Chicago. Backseat Driver 3. That's really the part that I think is the hardest for people to understand. [6] The group began striking at night, bombing empty offices, with warnings always issued in advance to ensure a safe evacuation. With the help from Clayton Van Lydegraf, the Weather Underground sought a more Marxist–Leninist ideological approach to the post-Vietnam reality. [16] For Jacobs, the goal of the "Days of Rage" was clear: Weatherman would shove the war down their dumb, fascist throats and show them, while we were at it, how much better we were than them, both tactically and strategically, as a people. [136] Weather members then wrote in response to her manifesto. We were very careful from the moment of the townhouse on to be sure we weren't going to hurt anybody, and we never did hurt anybody. The League had two student subsidiaries, a Student League for Industrial Democracy which came into exist… [15], At this convention the Weatherman's faction of the Students for a Democratic Society, planned for October 8–11, as a "National Action" built around John Jacobs' slogan, "bring the war home". Officials Accused in Break-ins". Weather Underground provides the world's most accurate hyper-local weather forecasts in addition to an interactive weather radar, satellite maps and severe weather alerts. Weatherman contained the vast majority of former SDS National Committee members, including Mark Rudd, David Gilbert and Bernardine Dohrn. Against the Inertia of Everyday Life. PLP was a, Pages 127 and 136 in the essay "1969" by Carl Oglesby in. The most interesting discussions in this film, to me, were those of all of the major players of the Weather Underground regarding their revelations as they look back on what they did, why they did it, and whether they would do it all over again; the resounding answer from all of them being "Yes, we'd do it again", almost in unison. The Weather Underground was, on the contrary, a militant continuation of the hopeful spirit of the early to mid-1960s, inspired by the success of national liberation movements the world over.” After the summer of 1969 fragmentation of SDS, Weatherman's adherents explicitly claimed themselves the real leaders of SDS and retained control of the SDS National Office. Welcome Rambler. In the evening, the groups reconvened for a mass "wargasm"—practicing karate, engaging in physical exercise,[20] singing songs, and listening to speeches. [118] On October 29, former President Richard Nixon appeared as a rebuttal witness for the defense, and testified that presidents since Franklin D. Roosevelt had authorized the bureau to engage in break-ins while conducting foreign intelligence and counterespionage investigations.[119]. [30], The thesis of Weatherman theory, as expounded in its founding document, You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows, was that "the main struggle going on in the world today is between U.S. imperialism and the national liberation struggles against it",[31] based on Lenin's theory of imperialism, first expounded in 1916 in Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. This FAQ is empty. [37], FBI analysis of the travel history of the founders and initial followers of the organization emphasized contacts with foreign governments, particularly the Cuban and North Vietnamese and their influence on the ideology of the organization. Anti-corporate activists travel from conference to conference, impersonating member of the World Trade Organization. [96], In October 1970, Bernardine Dohrn was put on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. Mehnert, Klaus, "Twilight of the Young, The Radical Movements of the 1960s and Their Legacy," Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977, page 47; Martin, Gus, opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, San Francisco Police Department Park Station bombing. The group was devastated by the loss of their friends, and in late April 1970, members of the Weathermen met in California to discuss what had happened in New York and the future of the organization. ‎Watch trailers, read customer and critic reviews, and buy The Weather Underground directed by Sam Green for $4.99. The Weather Underground Organization (WUO), commonly known as the Weather Underground, was an American terrorist extreme left-wing organization founded on the Ann Arbor campus of the w:University of Michigan.Originally called Weatherman, the group became known colloquially as the Weathermen.Weatherman organized in 1969 as a faction of Students for a … [61], In the year 1960, over a third of America's population was under 18 years of age. For the youth political movement, seemingly ineffectual methods of peaceful protest and resistance led to the rise of a faction that wanted a more extreme approach that the government could not ignore. They ultimately concluded that members of the Black Liberation Army were responsible, with whom WUO members were affiliated. [126] An FBI estimate in 1976, or slightly later, of then current membership was down to 30 or fewer. Mar 2011. contact / help. The Weather Underground Organization (WUO) was an American radical left organization founded at the University of Michigan. 192. Personal property was either renounced or given to the collective, with income being used to purchase the needs of the group and members enduring Spartan living conditions. [22][131], Boudin, Clark, and Gilbert were found guilty and sentenced to lengthy terms in prison. posted to www.marxmail.org on June 21, 2003 . These initially included preparations for a bombing of a U.S. military non-commissioned officers' dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey, in what Brian Flanagan said had been intended to be "the most horrific hit the United States government had ever suffered on its territory".[86]. Use the HTML below. Due to the illegal tactics of FBI agents involved with the program, government attorneys requested all weapons- and bomb-related charges be dropped against the Weather Underground. This page was last edited on 14 May 2021, at 21:41. The police killing of Panther Fred Hampton prompted the Weatherman to issue a declaration of war upon the United States government. [9] Dohrn opened the conference by telling the delegates they needed to stop being afraid and begin the "armed struggle." 2357 (1972)], reversing, "New York Times.com/archives/1972/"Barnard Coed Subpoenaed to Seattle". "[143], Others, however, have suggested that these arguments are specious. [26] The collective's first target was Judge John Murtagh, who was overseeing the trial of the "Panther 21". Hundreds of above-ground activists helped further the new political vision of the Weather Underground. In 1973, the FBI established the "Special Target Information Development" program, where agents were sent undercover to penetrate the Weather Underground. The Weather Underground Organization (WUO), or Weathermen is a leftist terrorist organization now possibly inactive. featured on Bandcamp Radio Apr 6, … Siegel's and Green's direction employs numerous archival clips that are shockingly graphic, including horrific footage of executions and the bodies of civilian casualties in Vietnam (including many women and small children) and uncensored crime scene photographs from the Tate-LaBianca murders ordered by Charles Manson. Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground did bomb the US Capitol, the Pentagon, NYC police station, and a lot of other places. Weather Underground combines data from over 250,000+ personal weather stations and a proprietary forecast model to give you the most accurate and hyperlocal forecasts, at a microclimate level. [91] Many leftist organizations showed curiosity in the communiqué, and waited to see if the act would in fact occur. svg-play Play. Has UV forecast? Following is a list of the organization's various activities and incidents. Congress. WUO members Judith Bissell, Thomas Justesen, Leslie Mullin, and Marc Curtis pleaded guilty while Van Lydegraf, who helped write the 1974 Prairie Fire Manifesto, went to trial. Nixon also contributed money to Felt's legal defense fund, with Felt's legal expenses running over $600,000. Go to the desired page on the site, open the Weather shortcuts menu and click on the "Add to shortcuts" button; Page name will display in the "Add this page" window, the name can be changed by highlighting the text and entering the desired name. (2002). As historian Dan Berger writes, Weather raised the question "what does it means to be a white person opposing racism and imperialism? 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