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===Creation===
 
===Creation===
Within SDS, the Weathermen grew out of a faction called the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zQHMCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT580 CQ Press Guide to Radical Politics in the United States]</ref>  At SDS' Chicago convention in June, 1969, the society found itself split three ways and collapsed shortly after.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MrPyPP7gkHYC&pg=PA50 Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons]</ref>  The Weatherman group took its name and the name for their manifesto from a lyric of a [[Bob Dylan]] song ''Subterranean Homesick Blues'', <ref>[http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/film.html Independent Lens], [[PBS]]</ref> which was published in the June 18, 1969 edition of ''New Left Notes''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=O34F9hWb5UcC&pg=PA320 Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies]</ref>
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Within SDS, the Weathermen grew out of a faction called the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zQHMCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT580 CQ Press Guide to Radical Politics in the United States]</ref>  At SDS' Chicago convention in June, 1969, the society found itself split three ways and collapsed shortly after.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MrPyPP7gkHYC&pg=PA50 Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons]</ref>  The Weatherman group took its name and the name for their manifesto from a lyric of a [[Bob Dylan]] song ''Subterranean Homesick Blues'',<ref>[http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/film.html Independent Lens], [[PBS]]</ref> which was published in the June 18, 1969 edition of ''New Left Notes''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=O34F9hWb5UcC&pg=PA320 Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies]</ref>
    
What was left of SDS fell to the control of the ''Progressive Labor Party'' (PLP), the oldest Maoist group in the United States.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8YSmiFins9sC&pg=PA87 Far Left of Center: The American Radical Left Today]</ref>
 
What was left of SDS fell to the control of the ''Progressive Labor Party'' (PLP), the oldest Maoist group in the United States.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8YSmiFins9sC&pg=PA87 Far Left of Center: The American Radical Left Today]</ref>
    
==Revolution==
 
==Revolution==
According to the traditional [[Soviet]] sponsored [[Lenin]]ist model, the [[proletariat]] is the main revolutionary force, and [[national liberation movement]]s become its allies. According to [[Maoist]] inspired Weathermen, however, the revolutionary national movements were proletarian revolutions in their own right against the world imperialist class, and provided the leadership in the worldwide anti-imperialist revolution.<ref>[http://www.archive.org/details/TheWayTheWindBlewAHistoryOfTheWeatherUnderground ''The Way The Wind Blew: A History Of The Weather Underground,''] Ron Jacobs, Verso, 1997, p. 81 ISBN 1-85984-167-8</ref>  Many WUO members believed that revolution was happening and they could unite all the [[Third World]] revolutionaries into one world-wide communist utopia.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=X2OJhrWo6PcC&pg=PT148 Sing a Battle Song: The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements, and Communiques of the Weather Underground 1970-1974]</ref><ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/article/225989/unearthing-weather-underground-joseph-morrison-skelly Unearthing the Weather Underground], [[National Review]]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=O34F9hWb5UcC&q=utopia Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies]</ref>
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According to the traditional [[Soviet]] sponsored [[Lenin]]ist model, the [[proletariat]] is the main revolutionary force, and [[national liberation movement]]s become its allies. According to [[Maoist]] inspired Weathermen, however, the revolutionary national movements were proletarian revolutions in their own right against the world imperialist class, and provided the leadership in the worldwide anti-imperialist revolution.<ref>[http://www.archive.org/details/TheWayTheWindBlewAHistoryOfTheWeatherUnderground ''The Way The Wind Blew: A History Of The Weather Underground,''] Ron Jacobs, Verso, 1997, p. 81 ISBN 1-85984-167-8</ref>  Many WUO members believed that revolution was happening and they could unite all the [[Third World]] revolutionaries into one worldwide communist utopia.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=X2OJhrWo6PcC&pg=PT148 Sing a Battle Song: The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements, and Communiques of the Weather Underground 1970-1974]</ref><ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/article/225989/unearthing-weather-underground-joseph-morrison-skelly Unearthing the Weather Underground], [[National Review]]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=O34F9hWb5UcC&q=utopia Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies]</ref>
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On September 13th, 1970, the weathermen helped [[Timothy Leary]] escape from a prison in San Luis Obispo.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jtVeR1boA1MC&q=timothy+leary+jailbreak+weathermen+september+13 Disorders and Terrorism: Report of the Task Force on Disorders and Terrorism]</ref>
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On September 13, 1970, the weathermen helped [[Timothy Leary]] escape from a prison in San Luis Obispo.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jtVeR1boA1MC&q=timothy+leary+jailbreak+weathermen+september+13 Disorders and Terrorism: Report of the Task Force on Disorders and Terrorism]</ref>
    
===High School Jailbreaks===
 
===High School Jailbreaks===
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