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| − | The '''Weather Underground''', or '''Weathermen''' was a [[leftist]] [[terrorist]] organization <ref>[http://www.attacreport.com/ar_terror/tframe.php?region=namerica&group=wuo ATTAC Report]</ref>, active mostly in New York City in the 1960s. They took their name from the [[Bob Dylan]] song, "Subterranean Homesick Blues". | + | The '''Weather Underground''', or '''Weathermen''' was a [[leftist]] [[terrorist]] organization <ref>[http://www.attacreport.com/ar_terror/tframe.php?region=namerica&group=wuo ATTAC Report]</ref>, active mostly in [[New York City]] in the 1960s. They took their name from the [[Bob Dylan]] song, "Subterranean Homesick Blues". |
::''...you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows...'' | ::''...you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows...'' | ||
Revision as of 03:47, October 7, 2008
The Weather Underground, or Weathermen was a leftist terrorist organization [1], active mostly in New York City in the 1960s. They took their name from the Bob Dylan song, "Subterranean Homesick Blues".
- ...you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows...
Their ideology was explicitly communist and revolutionary. In one famous incident, several members were killed in the "Greenwich Village Explosion", in which amateur bomb-makers immolated themselves [2] preparing for a terrorist attack on Fort Dix. Other members, Cathy Wilkerson and Kathy Boudin, survived and were defended by National Lawyers Guild [3] 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. [4]
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) [5]
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) [6]
- Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC)
- Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
- Youth International Party (YIP)
References
- ↑ ATTAC Report
- ↑ Court TV – Crime Library: Terrorists, The Weather Underground
- ↑ NLG: The Legal Fifth Column, By Jesse Rigsby, FrontPageMagazine.com, April 25, 2003.
- ↑ Court TV – Crime Library: The Brinks Robbery of 1981
- ↑ Propagandizing the Police, By William Norman Grigg, New American, 1999-11-08.
- ↑ Armed Resistance Unit Bombs US Capitol, Death To The Klan, Winter, 1984, No. 3.
External links
wolrdstatesman.org Weathermen (Weather Underground Organization)
