Weather Underground

First page of WUO Declaration of a State of War with Amerika issued by Bernardine Dohrn, May 21 1970. Dohrn was instrumental in launching the career of Chicago City Alderman Barack Obama, later elected President of the United States.

The Weather Underground Organization ((WUO), or Weathermen is a leftist terrorist organization now possibly inactive. Since its inception the Weather Underground identified its fundemental 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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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.

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Greenwich Village bomb factory

Their ideology was explicitly communist and revolutionary. In one famous incident, several members were killed in the "Greenwich Village Explosion", in which three bomb-makers immolated themselves preparing for a terrorist attack on Fort Dix. Other members, Cathy Wilkerson and Kathy Boudin, survived and were defended by National Lawyers Guild 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.

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 politcal vocabulary as well as advocacy of illegal drug use, violence, and killing.

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 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,

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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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Profile

Founding/Supervisory Organizations:

• Cuban General Directorate of Intelligence (DGI)
• Communist Czechoslovakia
• Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (OSPAAL)
• Communist Vietnam
• National Lawyers Guild (NLG)
• Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

Supporting Organizations:

• Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP)
• Workers World Party (WWP)
• Youth International Party (YIP)

Type of Organization: Terrorist/revolutionary

Location: United States

Ideological cover: Openly Marxist-Leninist

Activities: Urban guerrilla warfare; bombings; assassinations; riots; armed robbery; prison organizing; prison breaks

Target countries: United States

Status: Innactive

Assisted Organizations:

• American Indian Movement (AIM)
• Black Guerrilla Family (BGF)
• Black Liberation Army (BLA)
• Black Panther Party (BPP)
• Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN)
• Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP)
• Republic of New Africa (RNA)
• Workers World Party (WWP)

Derivative/Controlled Organizations:

• Black Guerrilla Family (BGF)
• Black Liberation Army (BLA)
• John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
• Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC)
• Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
• Youth International Party (YIP)

See also

• Bill Ayers
• Communist front

External links

wolrdstatesman.org Weathermen (Weather Underground Organization)