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| | The '''Weather Underground Organization''' ('''WUO'''), or '''Weathermen''' is a [[leftist]] [[terrorist]] organization now possibly inactive.<ref>[http://www.attacreport.com/ar_terror/tframe.php?region=namerica&group=wuo ATTAC Report]</ref> Since its inception the Weather Underground identified its fundamental strategic thesis with the [[Maoist]] Chinese. In its initial ideological statement, ''You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows,'' the objective of wealth redistribution was put forward to justify revolutionary violence: | | The '''Weather Underground Organization''' ('''WUO'''), or '''Weathermen''' is a [[leftist]] [[terrorist]] organization now possibly inactive.<ref>[http://www.attacreport.com/ar_terror/tframe.php?region=namerica&group=wuo ATTAC Report]</ref> Since its inception the Weather Underground identified its fundamental strategic thesis with the [[Maoist]] Chinese. In its initial ideological statement, ''You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows,'' the objective of wealth redistribution was put forward to justify revolutionary violence: |
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| | {{Cquote|It is the oppressed peoples of the world who have created the wealth of this empire and it is to them that it belongs; the goal of the revolutionary struggle must be the control and use of this wealth in the interests of the oppressed peoples of the world. It is in this context that we must examine the revolutionary struggles in the United States.<ref>Foreign Influence - Weather Underground Organization (WUO). FBI Chicago Field Office Report, August 20, 1976, | | {{Cquote|It is the oppressed peoples of the world who have created the wealth of this empire and it is to them that it belongs; the goal of the revolutionary struggle must be the control and use of this wealth in the interests of the oppressed peoples of the world. It is in this context that we must examine the revolutionary struggles in the United States.<ref>Foreign Influence - Weather Underground Organization (WUO). FBI Chicago Field Office Report, August 20, 1976, |
| | [http://foia.fbi.gov/weather/weath1c.pdf ''Influence of China''], Page 143 in original (p. 31 pdf).</ref>}} | | [http://foia.fbi.gov/weather/weath1c.pdf ''Influence of China''], Page 143 in original (p. 31 pdf).</ref>}} |
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| | It is SDS that the Weather Underground directly splinters from. 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> | | It is SDS that the Weather Underground directly splinters from. 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> |
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| | + | The 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> |
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| | ==Revolution== | | ==Revolution== |