Tag Archives: Weather Underground

Weather Underground: The terrorist organisation inspired by Bob Dylan

Posted on February 10, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In the backdrop of the Vietnam War, 1960s America was marked by fervent anti-war sentiments and countercultural upheaval. Taking cues from Woody Guthrie’s ‘Fascist Killer’ sensibilities, the Weather Underground emerged as a radical left-wing organisation that sought to challenge the … Continue reading →

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In Campus Protests Over Gaza, Echoes of Outcry Over Vietnam

Posted on December 26, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Students from the Black Students Organization protesting Columbia University’s suspension of the groups Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace. “Richard Flacks remembers the challenges of building a protest movement during the Vietnam War as a pillar … Continue reading →

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Jeff Jones – Weather Underground

Posted on September 11, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Jeff Jones (born February 23, 1947) is an environmental activist and consultant in Upstate New York. He was a national officer in Students for a Democratic Society, a founding member of Weatherman, and a leader of the Weather Underground. … … Continue reading →

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Bernardine Dohrn Was Called The Most Dangerous Woman In America. Now, Her Son Reconsiders Her Legacy.

Posted on June 26, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Zayd Dohrn still vividly remembers the most striking moment of his childhood. ‘Coming down the stairs in our fifth-floor walk-up in Harlem,’ he told me from his living room in Chicago, ‘seeing these two guys leaning on a car, and … Continue reading →

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Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism

Posted on April 22, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Prairie Fire Organizing Committee is an activist group whose members advocate the overthrow of the current capitalist system as the only solution to racism, sexism, homophobia, classism and imperialism. … The Prairie Fire Organization began in 1975. It sprang … Continue reading →

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The Radical Feminist Movement by Phyllis Chesler

Posted on February 18, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In the mid-1960s, young African, Hispanic, Native, and Caucasian American activists became a driving force for civil rights, free speech, and academic freedom. In manifestos, conferences, and teach-ins, young Americans also opposed the Vietnam War, capitalism, and racism; some eventually … Continue reading →

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Katherine Ann Power: Weather Underground

Posted on November 20, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Katherine Ann Power (born January 25, 1949), also known under the aliases Mae Kelly and Alice Louise Metzinger, is an American ex-convict and long-time fugitive, who, along with her fellow student and accomplice Susan Edith Saxe, was placed on the … Continue reading →

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What Mother Country Radicals Misses About the Weather Underground

Posted on August 23, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Weatherman organization leader John Jacobs (football helmet, center) “… In 1969, a militant faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) borrowed this line from Bob Dylan’s song ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ for the title of a manifesto they read at … Continue reading →

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195: Ramparts Press – Josh MacPhee

Posted on June 17, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“I’m going to try to be a little less complete-ist than I’ve been in the past, hopefully making these posts a bit easier to compile. To that end, this is hardly the complete output of Ramparts Press, but a dozen … Continue reading →

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“You Are Sometimes in the Trance of What Is Beyond You”: Upheaval, Incantation and Ed Dorn in the Summer of 1968

Posted on May 12, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“I. Love in the Time of Barricade:  When the radical students at the University of Essex, in Colchester, England, voted to dismantle the structures of established power at their university in May 1968, they took up a continental, if not … Continue reading →

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Year of the Mad Bomber

Posted on April 20, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Sam Melville “Throughout much of 1968, Sam Melville, an unemployed 34-year-old with an estranged wife and 5-year-old son, frequently sat at his desk in a squalid apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, contemplating how he could destroy America. … Continue reading →

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JACOBIN No.29 / Spring 2018: 1968

Posted on October 1, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Between us we can change this rotten society. Now, put on your coat and make for the nearest cinema. Look at their deadly love-making on the screen. Isn’t it better in real life? Make up your mind to learn to … Continue reading →

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The Trials of Muhammad Ali – Bill Siegel (2013)

Posted on July 25, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Clay, was not the only American to refuse to serve during the Vietnam War, but he was, by some measures, the most famous, the loudest and the baddest. Tracing the road to Mr. Ali’s act of … Continue reading →

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Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American – L. A. Kauffman

Posted on April 21, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In 1971, the People Didn’t Just March on Washington — They Shut It Down. The largest and most audacious direct action in US history is also among the least remembered, a protest that has slipped into deep historical obscurity. It was … Continue reading →

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Seattle Liberation Front

Posted on February 3, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

The Seattle Seven and two of their attorneys in summer 1970, photographer unknown “The Seattle Liberation Front, or SLF, was a radical anti-Vietnam War movement, based in Seattle, Washington, in the United States. The group, founded by the University of … Continue reading →

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Andrew Kopkind – The Thirty Years’ Wars: Dispatches and Diversions of a Radical Journalist 1965–1994

Posted on January 23, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In Boston in the 1970s he wrote articles and movie reviews for a range of publications and did regular political commentary for WBCN radio.  … He’d been a contributor to Grand Street, New Left Review, Esquire, Vogue and Il Mani­festo, … Continue reading →

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The Campaign Against The Underground Press*

Posted on December 12, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Kaleidoscope, April 26-May 9, 1969 “In the 1960s, investigative journalists, poets, novelists, political activists, community organizers, and artists formed an unprecedented alliance for change in the vigorous underground press movement that flourished in the United States. This network of counterculture, … Continue reading →

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‘Prairie Fire’ Memories

Posted on October 28, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“I could wallow in nostalgia about my days with the Weather Underground in the early 1970s: at Coney Island with Bernardine Dohrn, eating Bill Ayers’ soufflés and Jeff Jones’ homemade breads and the thrill of having my left earlobe pieced … Continue reading →

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What Was the Protest Group Students for a Democratic Society? Five Questions Answered

Posted on September 9, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Several hundred people affiliated with the SDS race through the Los Angeles Civic Center in a 1968 demonstration against the Vietnam war. “… 1. What were the goals of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) when it started? SDS wanted … Continue reading →

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Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History – Harvey Pekar

Posted on July 21, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“For the blink of an eye in the 1960s, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), was the 900-pound gorilla on the American left, commanding center stage and drawing up the game plans for anti-war and radical activity. And yet by … Continue reading →

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Women’s Brigade of Weather Underground

Posted on June 7, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Bernardine Dohrn “Initially called ‘The Proud Eagle Tribe,’ the communiqué from the Women’s Brigade of the Weather Underground pledged to ‘build a militant women’s movement that commits itself to the destruction of Amerikan imperialism’ and exploit ‘the man’s chauvinism’ as … Continue reading →

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Richard Avedon: Murals & Portraits

Posted on May 28, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Richard Avedon photographing SNCC demonstrators, March 1963 “Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of Richard Avedon’s legendary photographic murals and related portraits. The exhibition has been drawn from the collection of and developed in collaboration with The Richard … Continue reading →

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Hollywood and Vietnam

Posted on March 14, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In writing to President Johnson in December 1965 about his intention to make a film about the Green Berets, John Wayne explained that it was ‘extremely important that not only the people of the United States but those all over … Continue reading →

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Uncovering the Truth About a Raid on the Black Panthers

Posted on January 11, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The call came in the early morning hours of December 4, 1969. ‘Come to the crib’ was the command. ‘The police have murdered Chairman Fred.’ I was a second-year law student at Northwestern Law School, working with a group of … Continue reading →

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Flint War Council

Posted on October 8, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Flint War Council (also known as the SDS National War Council) was a series of meetings of the Weather Underground Organization (WUO) and associates in Flint, Michigan, that took place from 27–31 December 1969. During these meetings, the decisions … Continue reading →

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Training Teenagers for Guerrilla Warfare in the Wealthy Suburbs? Welcome to 1969

Posted on September 26, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Stephen Kling using a toy gun and a water balloon “grenade” while teaching guerrilla war tactics to students from Scarsdale High School. The girl in pigtails played a “peasant,” as the original caption put it. Aug. 14, 1969. “In the … Continue reading →

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Underground – Emile de Antonio, Haskell Wexler, Mary Lampson (1976)

Posted on January 15, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Underground is a 1976 documentary film about the Weathermen, founded as a militant faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), who fought to overthrow the U.S. government during the 1960s and 1970s. The film consists of interviews with … Continue reading →

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Military–Industrial Complex

Posted on September 30, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The military–industrial complex (MIC) is an informal alliance between a nation’s military and the defense industry that supplies it, seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy. A driving factor behind this relationship between the government and defense-minded … Continue reading →

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Weatherman – edited by Harold Jacobs (1970)

Posted on September 16, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The first complete picture of the Weatherman in the words of those who theorized, those who acted and those who watched it all – from the SDS split in June 1969 to the bombings in June, 1970. Selected by Harold … Continue reading →

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Aquarius Rising

Posted on September 10, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

A protester at a demonstration against the Vietnam War during the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, 1968 “Certain years acquire an almost numinous quality in collective memory—1789, 1861, 1914. One of the more recent additions to the list is 1968. Its … Continue reading →

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Half the Way with Mao Zedong

Posted on May 27, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The American left has never produced a group more self-critical than Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). In the years since the organization’s 1969 collapse, its former members have produced an endless stream of mea culpas. Some of this has … Continue reading →

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The Priest Who Practiced Radical Direct Action: Father Daniel J. Berrigan By Bernardine Dohrn

Posted on May 8, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In 1970, we received a ‘Letter from the Underground’ from Father Daniel Berrigan, printed in the New York Review of Books. It was a note from a comrade, for Dan too was a ‘most wanted’ fugitive from the FBI and … Continue reading →

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With the Weathermen: The Personal Journal of a Revolutionary Woman – Susan Stern (1975)

Posted on February 20, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Drugs. Sex. Revolutionary violence. From its first pages, Susan Stern’s memoir With the Weathermen provides a candid, first-hand look at the radical politics and the social and cultural environment of the New Left during the late 1960s. The Weathermen–a U.S.-based, … Continue reading →

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Diana Oughton

Posted on February 8, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Diana Oughton (January 26, 1942 – March 6, 1970) was a member of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Michigan Chapter and later, a member of the 1960s radical group Weather Underground. Oughton received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr … Continue reading →

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A brief history of the “clenched fist” image

Posted on January 6, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“A persistent symbol of resistance and unity, the clenched fist (or raised fist) is part of the broader genre of ‘hand’ symbols that include the peace ‘V,’ the forward-thrust-fist, and the clasped hands. The clenched fist usually appears in full … Continue reading →

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Next Left Notes

Posted on January 3, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Next Left Notes (NLN) is an independent radical publication and weblog connected to the 2006 re-incarnation of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). NLN began producing print versions in March 2008 – to mark its 4th anniversary. Next Left Notes … Continue reading →

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Greenwich Village townhouse explosion

Posted on November 24, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Greenwich Village townhouse explosion occurred on March 6, 1970, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It was caused by the premature detonation of a bomb that was being assembled by members of … Continue reading →

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Rising Up Angry

Posted on October 21, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Rising Up Angry was a radical youth movement organized as a militant community organization based in working class communities in Chicago, parallelling but not part of the Weatherman Underground and Revolutionary Youth Movement currents in New Left politics at the … Continue reading →

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SDS – Kirkpatrick Sale (1973)

Posted on October 17, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Social scientists and historians, not to mention college administrators and police agencies, continue to puzzle over how a student movement as radical as SDS could have emerged from the wizened anti-Communist League for Industrial Democracy, and then grown to such … Continue reading →

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The Vietnam War Is Not Over

Posted on September 27, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Marines marching in Danang, Vietnam, March 15, 1965 “‘The Vietnam War’ Ken Burns says in a recent interview, ‘was the most important event in American history since World War II.’ But, he explains, it’s also an event that tore the … Continue reading →

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