Oh, here’s the Weathermen connection, I think Dennis Frapper is the one who was involved in planning OWSers.
Ella Baker Human Rights Center and the Weathermen Connection
Van Jones has worked closely for years with San Francisco real estate broker, lawyer and activist Diana Frappier.
Jones and Frappier ran police monitoring organization CopWatch, together, then in 1996 the pair established the Oakland California based Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.
The Ella Baker Center is named after a little known civil rights activist Ella J. Baker (1903-1986) who worked closely with secret Communist Party USA member Stanley Levison-for many years the CPUSA’s top money man.
By the 1970s Ella J. Baker was involved with several far left organizations of the time including the Mass Party Organising Committee (MPOC) and the Puerto Rican Support Committee{PRSC). Both groups worked closely with the Praire Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC), the “legal” support network for the terrorist Weather Underground Organization (WUO).
Diana Frappier is believed to be related to Bay Area activists Jon Frappier and Nancy Frappier-nee Barnett. Both Jon and Nancy were active in Students for a Democratic Society(SDS) in the late 1960s. Both were aligned to SDS’s Weathermen faction which later submerged to form the Weather Underground Organization.
Thanks for adding the info to the thread.