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Loudon: More Weathermen For Obama
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Posted on October 6, 2008 by Uppity Woman
Cross posted from The Real Barack Obama who cross posted Trevor Loudon’s piece. Loudon has full credit for this article.
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The Obama File 33 More Weathermen For Obama by Trevor Loudon, posted September 30, 2008, on his blog, The New Zeal, is cross-posted at RBO with the author’s permission. Loudon’s first Obama File was posted January 12, 2008. Trevor writes:
My last three posts have looked at Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS) and the organisation’s relationship to Barack Obama and his campaign.
Despite its innocuous sounding name, MDS (founded August 2006) is a coalition of former members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) its terrorist splinter the Weather Underground and three Marxist organisations, Communist Party USA (CPUSA), Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS) and Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
Every one of these strands has supported Barack Obama since at least the mid ’90s — some even further back.
Today many MDS activists are working in the Obama campaign, particularly through the MDS offshoot, Progressives for Obama (P4O).
Much as been written about the links between Barack Obama and his “patrons” former Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.I’ve shown that Dohrn has been an MDS board member, while her husband Ayers is at least an active supporter.
That’s two known former terrorists involved in MDS, but there are at least three more in the MDS/Progressives for Obama orbit — Jeff Jones, Howie Machtinger and Mark Rudd.
Ayers, Dorhn, Jones, Machtinger and Rudd are old revolutionary comrades. In the late ’60s the five were key leaders of the faction of SDS that split to form the Weather Underground. All attended the famous 1969 Flint War Council that effectively gave birth to the Weathermen faction of SDS.
Ayers, Dorhn, Jones, Machtinger and Rudd are old revolutionary comrades. In the late ’60s the five were key leaders of the faction of SDS that split to form the Weather Underground. All attended the famous 1969 Flint War Council that effectively gave birth to the Weathermen faction of SDS.
All were virulently anti-American in their radical heyday.