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<blockquote data-quote="BrownShark" data-source="post: 332021" data-attributes="member: 12148"><p><strong>Weatherman</strong>, known <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloquially" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">colloquially</span></u></a> as <strong>the Weathermen</strong> and later the <strong>Weather Underground Organization</strong>, was a violent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">U.S.</span></u></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_left" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">radical left</span></u></a> group formed in 1969 by leaders and members who split from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society_%281960_organization%29" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Students for a Democratic Society</span></u></a> (SDS). They took their name from a lyric in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Bob Dylan</span></u></a> song "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subterranean_Homesick_Blues" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Subterranean Homesick Blues</span></u></a>","<em>You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,</em>" which they used as the title of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position_paper" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">position paper</span></u></a> they distributed at an SDS convention in Chicago on June 18th, 1969, as part of a special edition of <em>New Left Notes</em>. The Weathermen were initially part of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Youth_Movement" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Revolutionary Youth Movement</span></u></a> (RYM) within the SDS, splitting from the RYM's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maoist" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Maoists</span></u></a> by claiming there was no time to build a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard_party" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">vanguard party</span></u></a> and that revolutionary war against the United States and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">capitalist system</span></u></a> should begin immediately.</p><p>Their founding document, signed by 11 people, including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rudd" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Mark Rudd</span></u></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardine_Dohrn" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Bernardine Dohrn</span></u></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacobs_%28student_leader%29" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">John Jacobs</span></u></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Bill Ayers</span></u></a>, Jim Mellen, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Robbins" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Terry Robbins</span></u></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karen_Ashley&action=edit&redlink=1" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Karen Ashley</span></u></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Jones_%28activist%29" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Jeff Jones</span></u></a>, Gerry Long, and Steve Tappis, called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_%28organization%29#cite_note-0" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[1]</span></u></a> to achieve the goal of "the destruction of U.S. imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world Communism."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_%28organization%29#cite_note-Weatherman-1" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[2]</span></u></a> The statement noted, "A revolution is a war; when the movement in this country can defend itself militarily against total repression it will be a part of the revolutionary war."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_%28organization%29#cite_note-Weatherman-1" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[2]</span></u></a> The group's first public demonstration was the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Rage" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Days of Rage</span></u></a>," an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_8" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">October 8</span></u></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">1969</span></u></a> rally in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Chicago</span></u></a> that was coordinated with the trial of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Eight" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Chicago Eight</span></u></a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_%28organization%29#cite_note-2" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[3]</span></u></a></p><p>In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">1970</span></u></a> the group issued a "Declaration of a State of War" against the United States government, under the name "Weather Underground Organization" (WUO), and members adopted fake identities and pursued violent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">covert</span></u></a> activities. They carried out a domestic terror campaign in the United States, consisting of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">bombings</span></u></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_escape" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">jailbreaks</span></u></a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">riots</span></u></a>. Their attacks were mostly bombings of government buildings between 1969 and 1975, including the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Capitol" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">United States Capitol</span></u></a> (two bombs on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">March 1</span></u></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">1970</span></u></a>), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">The Pentagon</span></u></a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_19" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">May 19</span></u></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">1972</span></u></a>), and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S_Truman_Building" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Harry S Truman Building</span></u></a> housing the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">United States Department of State</span></u></a> (on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_29" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">January 29</span></u></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">1975</span></u></a>), along with several banks, police department headquarters and precincts, state and federal courthouses, and state prison administrative offices.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_%28organization%29#cite_note-3" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[4]</span></u></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_%28organization%29#cite_note-4" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[5]</span></u></a> They were also notable for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Village_townhouse_explosion" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Greenwich Village townhouse explosion</span></u></a> that claimed the lives of three of their own members in 1970. The Weathermen largely disintegrated shortly after the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">1973</span></u></a> and the conquest of South Vietnam by the communist North in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">1975</span></u></a>, which saw the general decline of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Left" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">New Left</span></u></a>. Members of the group participated in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinks_robbery_%281981%29" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Brinks robbery</span></u></a> of 1981, in which two police officers and a security guard were killed.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The group emerged from the campus-based <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_the_Vietnam_War" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">opposition to the Vietnam War</span></u></a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Movement" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Civil Rights Movements</span></u></a> of the late 1960s. During this time, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">United States military</span></u></a> action in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Southeast Asia</span></u></a>, especially in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Vietnam</span></u></a>, escalated. In the U.S., the anti-war sentiment was particularly pronounced during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election%2C_1968" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">1968 U.S. presidential election</span></u></a>.</p><p>The origins of the Weathermen can be traced to the collapse and fragmentation of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society_%281960_organization%29" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Students for a Democratic Society</span></u></a>. The split between the mainstream leadership of SDS, or "National Office," and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Labor_Party" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Progressive Labor Party</span></u></a> pushed SDS as a whole further to the left. National Office leaders such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardine_Dohrn" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Bernardine Dohrn</span></u></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Klonsky" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Mike Klonsky</span></u></a> began announcing their emerging perspectives, and Klonksy published a document entitled "Toward a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Youth_Movement" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Revolutionary Youth Movement</span></u></a>" (RYM). RYM promoted the philosophy that young workers possessed the potential to be a revolutionary force to overthrow capitalism, if not by themselves then by transmitting radical ideas to the working class. Klonsky's document reflected the growing leftist philosophy of the National Office and was eventually adopted as official SDS doctrine. During the Summer of 1969, the National Office began to split. A group led by Klonsky became known as RYM II, and the other side, RYM I, was led by Dohrn and endorsed more aggressive tactics.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>END PART 1......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrownShark, post: 332021, member: 12148"] [B]Weatherman[/B], known [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloquially"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]colloquially[/COLOR][/U][/URL] as [B]the Weathermen[/B] and later the [B]Weather Underground Organization[/B], was a violent [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]U.S.[/COLOR][/U][/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_left"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]radical left[/COLOR][/U][/URL] group formed in 1969 by leaders and members who split from the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society_%281960_organization%29"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Students for a Democratic Society[/COLOR][/U][/URL] (SDS). They took their name from a lyric in the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Bob Dylan[/COLOR][/U][/URL] song "[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subterranean_Homesick_Blues"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Subterranean Homesick Blues[/COLOR][/U][/URL]","[I]You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,[/I]" which they used as the title of a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position_paper"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]position paper[/COLOR][/U][/URL] they distributed at an SDS convention in Chicago on June 18th, 1969, as part of a special edition of [I]New Left Notes[/I]. The Weathermen were initially part of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Youth_Movement"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Revolutionary Youth Movement[/COLOR][/U][/URL] (RYM) within the SDS, splitting from the RYM's [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maoist"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Maoists[/COLOR][/U][/URL] by claiming there was no time to build a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard_party"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]vanguard party[/COLOR][/U][/URL] and that revolutionary war against the United States and the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]capitalist system[/COLOR][/U][/URL] should begin immediately. Their founding document, signed by 11 people, including [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rudd"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Mark Rudd[/COLOR][/U][/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardine_Dohrn"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Bernardine Dohrn[/COLOR][/U][/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacobs_%28student_leader%29"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]John Jacobs[/COLOR][/U][/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Bill Ayers[/COLOR][/U][/URL], Jim Mellen, [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Robbins"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Terry Robbins[/COLOR][/U][/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karen_Ashley&action=edit&redlink=1"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Karen Ashley[/COLOR][/U][/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Jones_%28activist%29"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Jeff Jones[/COLOR][/U][/URL], Gerry Long, and Steve Tappis, called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements,[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_%28organization%29#cite_note-0"][U][COLOR=#800080][1][/COLOR][/U][/URL] to achieve the goal of "the destruction of U.S. imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world Communism."[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_%28organization%29#cite_note-Weatherman-1"][U][COLOR=#800080][2][/COLOR][/U][/URL] The statement noted, "A revolution is a war; when the movement in this country can defend itself militarily against total repression it will be a part of the revolutionary war."[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_%28organization%29#cite_note-Weatherman-1"][U][COLOR=#800080][2][/COLOR][/U][/URL] The group's first public demonstration was the "[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Rage"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Days of Rage[/COLOR][/U][/URL]," an [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_8"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]October 8[/COLOR][/U][/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]1969[/COLOR][/U][/URL] rally in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Chicago[/COLOR][/U][/URL] that was coordinated with the trial of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Eight"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Chicago Eight[/COLOR][/U][/URL].[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_%28organization%29#cite_note-2"][U][COLOR=#800080][3][/COLOR][/U][/URL] In [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]1970[/COLOR][/U][/URL] the group issued a "Declaration of a State of War" against the United States government, under the name "Weather Underground Organization" (WUO), and members adopted fake identities and pursued violent [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]covert[/COLOR][/U][/URL] activities. They carried out a domestic terror campaign in the United States, consisting of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]bombings[/COLOR][/U][/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_escape"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]jailbreaks[/COLOR][/U][/URL], and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]riots[/COLOR][/U][/URL]. Their attacks were mostly bombings of government buildings between 1969 and 1975, including the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Capitol"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]United States Capitol[/COLOR][/U][/URL] (two bombs on [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]March 1[/COLOR][/U][/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]1970[/COLOR][/U][/URL]), [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]The Pentagon[/COLOR][/U][/URL] ([URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_19"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]May 19[/COLOR][/U][/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]1972[/COLOR][/U][/URL]), and the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S_Truman_Building"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Harry S Truman Building[/COLOR][/U][/URL] housing the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]United States Department of State[/COLOR][/U][/URL] (on [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_29"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]January 29[/COLOR][/U][/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]1975[/COLOR][/U][/URL]), along with several banks, police department headquarters and precincts, state and federal courthouses, and state prison administrative offices.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_%28organization%29#cite_note-3"][U][COLOR=#800080][4][/COLOR][/U][/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_%28organization%29#cite_note-4"][U][COLOR=#800080][5][/COLOR][/U][/URL] They were also notable for the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Village_townhouse_explosion"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Greenwich Village townhouse explosion[/COLOR][/U][/URL] that claimed the lives of three of their own members in 1970. The Weathermen largely disintegrated shortly after the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]1973[/COLOR][/U][/URL] and the conquest of South Vietnam by the communist North in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]1975[/COLOR][/U][/URL], which saw the general decline of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Left"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]New Left[/COLOR][/U][/URL]. Members of the group participated in the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinks_robbery_%281981%29"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Brinks robbery[/COLOR][/U][/URL] of 1981, in which two police officers and a security guard were killed. The group emerged from the campus-based [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_the_Vietnam_War"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]opposition to the Vietnam War[/COLOR][/U][/URL] and the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Movement"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Civil Rights Movements[/COLOR][/U][/URL] of the late 1960s. During this time, [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]United States military[/COLOR][/U][/URL] action in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Southeast Asia[/COLOR][/U][/URL], especially in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Vietnam[/COLOR][/U][/URL], escalated. In the U.S., the anti-war sentiment was particularly pronounced during the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election%2C_1968"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]1968 U.S. presidential election[/COLOR][/U][/URL]. The origins of the Weathermen can be traced to the collapse and fragmentation of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society_%281960_organization%29"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Students for a Democratic Society[/COLOR][/U][/URL]. The split between the mainstream leadership of SDS, or "National Office," and the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Labor_Party"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Progressive Labor Party[/COLOR][/U][/URL] pushed SDS as a whole further to the left. National Office leaders such as [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardine_Dohrn"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Bernardine Dohrn[/COLOR][/U][/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Klonsky"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Mike Klonsky[/COLOR][/U][/URL] began announcing their emerging perspectives, and Klonksy published a document entitled "Toward a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Youth_Movement"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Revolutionary Youth Movement[/COLOR][/U][/URL]" (RYM). RYM promoted the philosophy that young workers possessed the potential to be a revolutionary force to overthrow capitalism, if not by themselves then by transmitting radical ideas to the working class. Klonsky's document reflected the growing leftist philosophy of the National Office and was eventually adopted as official SDS doctrine. During the Summer of 1969, the National Office began to split. A group led by Klonsky became known as RYM II, and the other side, RYM I, was led by Dohrn and endorsed more aggressive tactics. END PART 1...... [/QUOTE]
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