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| | The use of the moniker ''Days of Rage'' would be used by future revolutionary groups and movements, including [[Occupy Wall Street]], [[Anonymous]], and during the [[Arab Spring]]. | | The use of the moniker ''Days of Rage'' would be used by future revolutionary groups and movements, including [[Occupy Wall Street]], [[Anonymous]], and during the [[Arab Spring]]. |
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| | [[Image:Deathpigs.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The words "Death to Pigs" were written on a wall in the blood of Manson Family victims; the WUO and Manson Family had a shared political vocabulary<ref>For more on the Marxist concept of a "shared political vocabulary" see ''Reclaiming Revolution: history, summation & lessons from the work of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM)'', Spring 2004, Edited by [[Van Jones]] ''et al'', [http://www.capitalresearch.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/stormsummation.pdf p. 9 pdf] (link inactive, for the archived version, see [https://web.archive.org/web/20091007025931/http://www.capitalresearch.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/stormsummation.pdf here]).</ref> as well as advocacy of illegal drug use, violence, and killing.]] | | [[Image:Deathpigs.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The words "Death to Pigs" were written on a wall in the blood of Manson Family victims; the WUO and Manson Family had a shared political vocabulary<ref>For more on the Marxist concept of a "shared political vocabulary" see ''Reclaiming Revolution: history, summation & lessons from the work of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM)'', Spring 2004, Edited by [[Van Jones]] ''et al'', [http://www.capitalresearch.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/stormsummation.pdf p. 9 pdf] (link inactive, for the archived version, see [https://web.archive.org/web/20091007025931/http://www.capitalresearch.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/stormsummation.pdf here]).</ref> as well as advocacy of illegal drug use, violence, and killing.]] |
| − | Their ideology was explicitly [[communist]] and [[revolution]]ary. After issuing a formal "Declaration of War on AmeriKKKa"(which they always spelled with three capital "K's") the underground went on a bombing spree.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1yL7y9H-YHcC&pg=PA1948 The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America], [[David Horowitz]]</ref> | + | Their ideology was explicitly [[communist]] and [[revolution]]ary. After issuing a formal "Declaration of War on AmeriKKKa"(which they always spelled with three capital "K's") the underground went on a bombing spree.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1yL7y9H-YHcC&pg=PA1948 The Professors: The 101 Most |
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| − | In one famous incident, several members were killed in the "Greenwich Village Explosion", in which three bomb-makers immolated themselves <ref>[http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/1.html Court TV – Crime Library: Terrorists, The Weather Underground]</ref> preparing for a [[terrorist]] attack on [[Fort Dix]]. Other members, [[Cathy Wilkerson]] and [[Kathy Boudin]],
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| − | survived and were defended by [[National Lawyers Guild]] <ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7494 NLG: The Legal Fifth Column], By Jesse Rigsby, ''FrontPageMagazine.com'', April 25, 2003.</ref> members. Kathy Boudin later received a 20-years-to-life sentence for her role in the 1981 Weatherman Nyack, New York Brinks armored truck robbery which resulted in the murders of two policemen and an armored truck security guard.<ref>[http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/15.html Court TV – Crime Library: The Brinks Robbery of 1981]</ref>
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| | At a 1969 "War Council" in [[Flint]], [[Michigan]], spokeswoman [[Bernardine Dohrn]] gave her most memorable and notorious speech. Holding her fingers in what became the Weatherman "fork salute," she said of the bloody murders recently committed by the [[Charles Manson|Manson Family]] in which the pregnant actress Sharon Tate and a Folgers Coffee heiress, and several other inhabitants of a Benedict Canyon mansion were brutally stabbed to death,<ref>[http://www.crimeshots.com/Carnage69.html Manson Family Carnage]</ref> | | At a 1969 "War Council" in [[Flint]], [[Michigan]], spokeswoman [[Bernardine Dohrn]] gave her most memorable and notorious speech. Holding her fingers in what became the Weatherman "fork salute," she said of the bloody murders recently committed by the [[Charles Manson|Manson Family]] in which the pregnant actress Sharon Tate and a Folgers Coffee heiress, and several other inhabitants of a Benedict Canyon mansion were brutally stabbed to death,<ref>[http://www.crimeshots.com/Carnage69.html Manson Family Carnage]</ref> |
| | {{cquote|'''Dig it! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim's stomach! Wild!"'''}} | | {{cquote|'''Dig it! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim's stomach! Wild!"'''}} |
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| | + | ===Haymarket Police Statue=== |
| | + | October 6, 1969 - the organization's first bombing act explodes at a statue built to memorialize police victims of the 1886 [[Haymarket Affair]] in which anarchists violently protested.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=XMCXV5Nm00wC&pg=PT135 Thinking Like a Terrorist: Insights of a Former FBI Undercover Agent]</ref> They bombed the statue again exactly one year later on October 6, 1970.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=N961d4YPAVUC&pg=PT22 Illuminating the Dark Arts of War: Terrorism, Sabotage, and Subversion in Homeland Security and the New Conflict]</ref> |
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| | + | ===Greenwich Village bomb factory=== |
| | + | On March 6, 1970, several members were killed in the "Greenwich Village Explosion", in which three bomb-makers immolated themselves <ref>[http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/1.html Court TV – Crime Library: Terrorists, The Weather Underground]</ref> preparing for a [[terrorist]] attack on [[Fort Dix]]. Other members, [[Cathy Wilkerson]] and [[Kathy Boudin]], |
| | + | survived and were defended by [[National Lawyers Guild]] <ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7494 NLG: The Legal Fifth Column], By Jesse Rigsby, ''FrontPageMagazine.com'', April 25, 2003.</ref> members. Kathy Boudin later received a 20-years-to-life sentence for her role in the 1981 Weatherman Nyack, New York Brinks armored truck robbery which resulted in the murders of two policemen and an armored truck security guard.<ref>[http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/15.html Court TV – Crime Library: The Brinks Robbery of 1981]</ref> |
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| | ==COINTELPRO investigation== | | ==COINTELPRO investigation== |