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After the WUO dissolved in 1977-78 and most of its members turned themselves in to state authorities, there remained a leftover grouplet connected to members of the [[May 19 Communist Organization]] (an aboveground group linked to the WU which functioned in the New York area between 1978 and 1985) that was critical of any compromise with the state. It was this small group that, in tandem with elements of the [[Black Liberation Army]], carried out the armed Brinks robbery in 1981, during which two police officers were killed<ref>http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/4251/you_say_you_want_a_revolution/</ref>. | After the WUO dissolved in 1977-78 and most of its members turned themselves in to state authorities, there remained a leftover grouplet connected to members of the [[May 19 Communist Organization]] (an aboveground group linked to the WU which functioned in the New York area between 1978 and 1985) that was critical of any compromise with the state. It was this small group that, in tandem with elements of the [[Black Liberation Army]], carried out the armed Brinks robbery in 1981, during which two police officers were killed<ref>http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/4251/you_say_you_want_a_revolution/</ref>. | ||
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Revision as of 09:38, 20 January 2010
Weather Underground Organization was founded in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society and it dissolved in 1977.[1]
Weathermen Flint "War Council"
December 27-31, 1969, about 400 of the national membership of the Weatherman faction of Students for a Democratic Society held a “War Council” at a ballroom dancehall in Flint, Michigan. Posters of a giant cardboard machinegun, Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevera, and Fidel Castro hung everywhere.
Among the attendees of the “War Council in Flint" identified by the Flint police department and/or its informant were: Michael Avey, Karen Ashley, Bill Ayers, Edward Benedict, Margaret Bennett, Douglas Bernhardt, Jeff Blum, Harvey Blume,David Chase, Peter Clapp, Judy Clark, Bernardine Dohrn, Diane Donghi, Linda Evans, Brian Flannigan, David Flatley, John Fuerst, Lynn Ray Garvin, Bert Garskof, Michele Garskoff,Mark Glasser, Theodore Gold, Lenny Handlesman, Ann Hathaway, Karen Hardiman, Daniel Hardy, Tom Hayden, Phoebe Hirsch, Arthur Hochberg, Anne Hodges, John J. J. Jacobs, Jeff Jones, Sam Karp, David Klafter, Dianne Kohn, Peter Kuttner, Bradford Lang, Stephen Lang, Karen Latimer, Jonathan Lerner, Naomi Lev, Bradford Long,Allan Maki, Eric Mann, Howard Machtinger, Carol McDermott,L.R. Meadows, Lisa Meisel, Jeff Melish, James Mellen, David Millstone, Russell Neufeld, Diana Oughton, John Pilkington, Edward Purtz, Jonah Raskin, Natalie Rosenstein, Dennis Roskamp, Mark Rudd, Karen Selin, Mark Shapiro, Janet Snider, Mike Spiegel, Jane Spiegelman, Marsha Steinberg, David Sole, Susan Stern, Clayton Van Lydegraf, Cathy Wilkerson and Mary Wozniak [2].
Hard Times Conference
The Weather Underground Organization helped organize and lead the Hard Times Conference with the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee at the University of Illinois Circle Campus in Chicago, from January 30 to February 1, 1976.
Brinks robbery
After the WUO dissolved in 1977-78 and most of its members turned themselves in to state authorities, there remained a leftover grouplet connected to members of the May 19 Communist Organization (an aboveground group linked to the WU which functioned in the New York area between 1978 and 1985) that was critical of any compromise with the state. It was this small group that, in tandem with elements of the Black Liberation Army, carried out the armed Brinks robbery in 1981, during which two police officers were killed[3].
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References
- ↑ "Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded", The New York Times, August 24, 2003
- ↑ Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, The Weather Underground, Committee Print, January 1975, 126-7
- ↑ http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/4251/you_say_you_want_a_revolution/