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Former Weather Underground radical Kathy Boudin — who spent 22 years in prison for an armored-car robbery that killed two cops and a Brinks guard — now holds a prestigious adjunct professorship at Columbia University’s School of Social Work, The Post has learned.

Paroled Weather Underground Radical Now Columbia Professor BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff April 2, 2013 9:43 am Former Weather Underground radical Kathy Boudin, who served 22 years in prison for her role in an armored-car robbery that left three dead in 1981, now has an adjunct professorship at Columbia University’s School of Social Work, the New York Post reports: Boudin’s status of perp-turned-prof outraged the widow of one of her victims, Brinks guard and dad of three Peter Paige, who was gunned down by her accomplices from the Black Liberation Army on Oct. 20, 1981, in Rockland County.Boudin acted as...

“...as a special report published in 2003 in the Boston Globe indicates, the Weathermen are still active and do most of their work underground, well out of the public eye. Many believe that Ayers, Dohrn, Kathy Boudin, and other key players in the Weathermen are helping fuel the tensions leading to the various days of rage around the world. For example, it is known that Ayers, Dohrn, and Jodi Evans of Code Pink form the driving force behind the so-called ‘Peace Flotilla’ that is aimed at breaching Israel’s blockade of Gaza and provoking attacks. It is also curious to note...

NEW YORK (AP) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday took a sterner stance toward the upcoming resentencing of a former civil rights lawyer convicted in a terrorism case, saying it has "serious doubts" whether her sentence of just over two years in prison was reasonable. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals added new instructions for the judge who will resentence 70-year-old Lynne Stewart, who was convicted of letting an imprisoned Egyptian terrorist client communicate with followers. The court said the judge should consider whether Stewart's sentence should be increased because of the case's terrorism connections. "We have serious...

Publisher Peter Osnos, who admits to personally working with former Bush White House press secretary Scott McClellan on his new book, What Happened, began his career as an assistant to I.F. Stone, the pro-communist "journalist" named as a Soviet agent of influence who was the uncle of Weather Underground communist terrorist Kathy Boudin. But the connections don't end there. Boudin's son Chesa was raised by Barack Obama associates Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who were Boudin's comrades in the communist terrorist group, after Kathy Boudin went to prison for her involvement in an armed robbery and assault that took the...

On a brisk November morning, Cathy Wilkerson strides down one of the city’s finest streets, 11th between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, her glance sweeping across the row of handsome town houses, alighting nowhere in particular. “The street I remember,” Ms. Wilkerson says, “was a lot less polished.” If streets had memories, this one would recall a far less polished incarnation of her. On the morning of March 6, 1970, Cathy Wilkerson stumbled onto 11th Street in tatters, bleeding and her clothes all but ripped off her body. Her father’s town house, 18 West 11th Street, which she had borrowed on...

A federal judge has ordered a new trial for a woman serving 75 years in prison after she was convicted as a getaway driver in an armored-truck robbery in which a guard and two policemen were killed. U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin said Judith Clark deserves a new trial because no one represented her interests in the courtroom after she insisted on remaining in a cell outside court as the evidence was unveiled in court. The judge said ... that Clark, 56, knowingly and intelligently waived her right to a lawyer. But she said the trial judge failed to ensure...

Jerrold Nadler's Two Faces on Terror By Jacob LaksinFrontPageMagazine.com | June 13, 2005Last Friday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Patriot Act had already been adjourned, but Jerrold Nadler, the Democratic blimpish congressman from New York and one of the leftmost members of the House Judiciary Committee, was too wound up to care: “We are not besmirching the honor of the United States, we are trying to uphold it,” bellowed the hefty Nadler. By this, Nadler meant to defend his attacks on the alleged abuses of the (in fact) privileged  prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Thanks to the efforts of the...

An American Traitor: Guilty As Charged By Henry Mark Holzer and Erika HolzerFrontPageMagazine.com | June 10, 2005For three decades Jane Fonda obfuscated, distorted and lied about virtually everything connected with her wartime trip to North Vietnam: her motive, her acts, her intent, and her contribution to the Communists’ war effort.  With the aid of clever handlers, she so successfully suppressed and spun her conduct in Hanoi that many Americans didn’t know what she had done there, and, more important, the legal significance. Three years ago, our book, “Aid and Comfort”: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam (McFarland & Co.), laid bare...

1010 WINS) NEW YORK A former radical serving 75 years in prison for the deadly 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored truck has asked to be released from prison. She claims she was not given proper legal representation. 55-year-old Judith Clark filed a petition for habeas corpus yesterday in Federal District Court in Manhattan. Clark argues that the judge at her 1983 state trial violated the constitution when he granted Clark's request to serve as her own lawyer. Clark was convicted of three counts of second-degree murder in the 1981 armed robbery, in which a guard and two policemen were...

he far left in America has not had a lot to celebrate recently. So a good-size crowd, and not all of it graybeards, turned up at Columbia Law School on Thursday evening for a party in honor of a new book, "No Surrender: Selected Writings of an Anti-Imperialist Political Prisoner," by David Gilbert. Mark Rudd, who as a member of Students for a Democratic Society led the antiwar demonstrations that shut down Columbia in the spring of 1968, was there, along with an assortment of Black Panther alumni and former members of the Weathermen. But there was also a large...

Cheerleaders for TerrorismBy Erick StakelbeckFrontPageMagazine.com | June 17, 2003 Two groups whom Islamic terrorists can count on for sympathy and support are radical lawyers and their counterparts in American law schools. Lynne Stewart is a hero of the National Lawyers Guild and a sought-after campus lecturer. While out on bail under indictment for colluding with a terrorist leader, she has been a sought-after speaker for law school audiences who relish her attacks on Attorney General John Ashcroft as a modern-day fascist and on her country for its imperialist and racist policies. Stewart made national headlines in April 2002 when she...

In any earthly accounting it will never add up. At 12:30 p.m. tomorrow, the U.S. Post Office in Nyack, N.Y., will be renamed in honor of the two police officers and one security guard killed in the murderous 1981 Brink's robbery. As impressive as the honor is, surely it sadly pales next to the gift of freedom the New York parole board recently bestowed on one of the radical Weather Underground members convicted in the crime, Kathy Boudin. The fallen men were Police Sgt. Edward O'Grady, Police Officer Waverly "Chipper" Brown and Brink's security officer Peter Paige--military vets all. No...

In any earthly accounting it will never add up. At 12:30 p.m. tomorrow, the U.S. Post Office in Nyack, N.Y., will be renamed in honor of the two police officers and one security guard killed in the murderous 1981 Brink's robbery. As impressive as the honor is, surely it sadly pales next to the gift of freedom the New York parole board recently bestowed on one of the radical Weather Underground members convicted in the crime, Kathy Boudin. The fallen men were Police Sgt. Edward O'Grady, Police Officer Waverly "Chipper" Brown and Brink's security officer Peter Paige -- military vets...

<p>Return, now, to a time long before anyone heard of antiglobalists--a period when hot-eyed protesters went around smashing windows, setting bombs and fighting police, whom the revolutionaries invariably referred to as "pigs." It was in the '60s and '70s that the Weathermen and fellow travelers embarked on their effort to dismantle the government and the entire system, a mission they deemed central to the world revolution they aspired to lead--and one far more exciting than the dull activism of the anti-Vietnam War protests, on which they had cut their teeth.</p>

<p>The good news: The truth about Kathy Boudin's decades-long history of violent revolutionary history finally is emerging, thanks to a new book by her one-time college classmate and friend that exposes the lies she and her supporters have long been telling. The bad news: Susan Braudy's "Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristrocracy of the Left" (Knopf) was published too late to keep Kathy Boudin behind bars for her role in the 1981 Brinks heist in Nyack, in which her Black Liberation Army comrades murdered three law-enforcement officers.</p>

Angry off-duty cops demonstrated outside St. Luke's Hospital yesterday to protest the hiring of paroled killer Kathy Boudin - 22 years to the day since three men were slain in the infamous Brink's robbery. About two dozen police officers carried signs outside the upper Manhattan hospital that read: "Kill three people and get a job at St. Luke's," and shouted, "St. Luke's hires murderers." Boudin, 60, walked out of prison last month after serving nearly 22 years for the ambush that left two police officers and a security guard dead. Most of the protesters were cops from Rockland County, where...

<p>THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO this fall, a small band of well-educated young Americans hell-bent on storming heaven steeled themselves to commit an act of spectacularly gratuitous violence. A militant breakaway faction of Students for a Democratic Society, they called themselves the Weathermen. Their strategy, such as it was, blended theatrical bravado with puritanical zeal -- Bonnie and Clyde meet John Brown. Wearing crash helmets and wielding baseball bats, ululating like the revolutionaries they had studied on screen in "The Battle of Algiers," they would run wild in the streets of Chicago, lashing out at any available symbol of privilege and power: police, parked cars, affluent bystanders.</p>

American TerroristBy Greg YardleyFrontPageMagazine.com | September 22, 2003 Kathy Boudin helped kill three people on October 20, 1981, the consequences of an armored truck robbery in Nyack, New York. The robbery was a joint action of the May 19th Communist Organization and the Black Liberation Army, the money was needed to finance their criminal careers as communist revolutionaries. Although not armed herself, Boudin was in the cab of the U-Haul that served as a getaway vehicle; when police pulled the truck over, she failed to warn them about the six heavily-armed gunmen hiding in the back. They were caught...

This week, Kathy Boudin walked free after 22 years in prison. Back in the '70s, Boudin was a member of the radical Weather Underground. In 1981, after years on the run, she participated in the murder of a Brink's guard and two cops in pursuit of her revolutionary goals. Boudin now says she's sorry. She made a terrible mistake. As she told the Parole Board, "I had grown up wanting to be a doctor, and here I am and three people are dead, and I'm responsible for this." Boudin comes from a rich and influential family. In prison, she helped...