Weather Underground | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-06

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Weather Underground


00:03:13 1 Background and formation
00:06:16 1.1 SDS Convention, June 1969
00:09:29 1.2 SDS Convention, December 1969
00:13:01 1.3 Ideology
00:17:49 1.4 Anti-imperialism, anti-racism, and white privilege
00:19:14 1.5 Practice
00:22:50 1.6 Recruitment
00:26:19 1.6.1 Armed propaganda
00:27:33 2 Major activities
00:27:43 2.1 Haymarket Police Memorial bombing
00:28:39 2.2 "Days of Rage"
00:31:48 2.3 Flint War Council
00:32:40 2.4 New York City arson attacks
00:34:38 2.5 Greenwich Village townhouse explosion
00:35:43 2.5.1 Underground strategy change
00:37:38 2.6 Declaration of war
00:41:19 2.7 Activity in 1970
00:42:46 2.8 Pentagon bombing
00:43:22 2.9 Withdrawal of charges
00:45:11 2.10 iPrairie Fire/i
00:48:29 3 COINTELPRO
00:48:39 3.1 Event
00:50:20 3.2 Investigation and trial
00:54:16 4 Dissolution
00:56:17 4.1 Plot to bomb office of California Senator
00:57:42 4.2 Brinks robbery
00:58:44 4.3 May 19th Communist Organization
00:59:13 5 Coalitions with non-WUO members
00:59:57 6 Legacy
01:07:16 7 See also



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The Weather Underground Organization (WUO), commonly known as the Weather Underground, was a radical left-wing domestic terror group active in the late 1960s and 1970s, founded on the Ann Arbor campus of the 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 Democratic Society (SDS) composed for the most part of the national office leadership of SDS and their supporters. Their political goal, stated in print after 1974, was to create a revolutionary party to overthrow U.S. imperialism.
With revolutionary positions characterized by black power and opposition to the Vietnam War, the group conducted a campaign of bombings through the mid-1970s and took part in actions such as the jailbreak of Timothy Leary in 1970. The "Days of Rage", their first public demonstration on October 8, 1969, was a riot in Chicago timed to coincide with the trial of the Chicago Seven. In 1970 the group issued a "Declaration of a State of War" against the United States government, under the name "Weather Underground Organization".The bombing campaign indiscriminately targeted government buildings, along with several banks. The group stated that the United States government had been exploiting other nations by waging war as a means of solidifying America as a greater nation. Some attacks were preceded by evacuation warnings, along with threats identifying the particular matter that the attack was intended to protest. Three members of the group were killed in the accidental Greenwich Village townhouse explosion but no civilians were killed in any of the terrorist attacks.
For the bombing of the United States Capitol on March 1, 1971, they issued a communiqué saying that it was "in protest of the U.S. invasion of Laos". For the bombing of the Pentagon on May 19, 1972, they stated that it was "in retaliation for the U.S. bombing raid in Hanoi". For the January 29, 1975 bombing of the United States Department of State building, they stated that it was "in response to the escalation in Vietnam".The Weathermen grew out of the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) faction of SDS. It took its name from Bob Dylan's lyric, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows", from the song "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (1965). "You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows" was the title of a position paper that they distributed at an SDS convention in Chicago on June 18, 1969. This founding document called for a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other radical movements to achieve "the destruction of U.S. imperialism and achieve a classless world: world communism".The Weathermen began to disintegrate after the United States reached a peace accord in Vietnam in 1973, after which the New Left declined in influenc ...