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"And the following is from the PBS website about a 2003 film about the Days of Rage.
The film, DAYS OF RAGE, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2003 - how sweet.
This is one of the posters the Weathermen hung around Chicago.
In October 1969, hundreds of young people wielding lead pipes and clad in football helmets marched through an upscale Chicago shopping district, pummeling parked cars and smashing shop windows.
Thus began the “Days of Rage,” the first demonstration of the Weathermen, later known as the Weather Underground.
Outraged by the Vietnam War and racism in America, this group of former student radicals waged a low-level war against the United States government through much of the 1970s,
bombing the Capitol building,
breaking Timothy Leary out of prison
and finally evading the FBI by going into hiding.
In THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, former Weathermen including Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd and David Gilbert speak frankly about the idealist passions and trajectories that transformed them from college activists into the FBI’s Most Wanted.
The Weather Underground emerged when Dohrn and a group of fellow University of Chicago students split with the campus-run Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, because they disagreed with the SDS’s peaceful protest tactics against the Vietnam War.
Dubbing itself the Weathermen, this new organization took its name from a line in Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues”—“you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”—and within months had set off bombs at the National Guard headquarters and set in motion plans to bomb targets across the country that it considered emblematic of the worldwide violence sanctioned by the U.S. government.
Using extensive archival material such as photographs, film footage and FBI documents, THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND chronicles the Weathermen’s public rise and fall and offers a rare insider look into the group’s private conflicts.
Fueled by righteous anger, these white, middle-class students were also widely criticized for their controversial—some say misguided—politics.
As former SDS president Todd Gitlin says: ''Like Bonnie and Clyde, many of them were attractive personally. They were into youth, exuberance, sex, drugs. They wanted action.”
Ultimately, the Weathermen's carefully organized, clandestine network managed to successfully dodge the FBI for years, although the group's members would eventually reemerge to life in a country that was dramatically different than the one they had hoped their efforts would inspire."
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(( Separate link, in case it doesn't work right away:
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They also speak on film in 2003 about what they did. Judge for yourself if you would even shake hands with people like this. The description of the film says a lot about PBS, too.
At this link, PBS has a short history and timeline of the Weather Underground along with another video of Bernadine Dohrn showing the filmmakers around her hideout in a houseboat in Sausalito on San Francisco Bay in the 70s when the FBI was after her and Ayers.
How charming.
[I love this bit]: And grab attention they did—in March 1970, just days after Bernardine Dohrn publicly announced a “declaration of war.”
When an accidentally detonated bomb killed three Weathermen in the basement of a Manhattan townhouse, the group suddenly became the target of an FBI manhunt, and members were forced to go into hiding. The bomb had been intended to be set off at a dance at a local Army base.
Here's part of an interview of Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers in connection with the film. Do you think Obama was unaware of the famous film starring his neighbors?"
Rest at link.
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Ayers...
Obama...
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A man is judged by the company he keeps ..... INDEED!