On Friday, 8/29, "The Weather Underground" opens at the NuArt theater in L.A.. It's a new documentary by independent filmmakers Sam Green and Bill Siegel that explores the rise and fall of the infamous
American radicals whose goal was to overthrow the U.S. government.

"The Weather Underground" is a riveting document of history and catalyst for discussion that presents portraits of young people who were compelled to
"bring the war home."

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NuArt Theater
11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, just west of the 405 Freeway
West Los Angeles, CA 90025
(310) 478-6379
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THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND

Featuring: Bill Ayers, Kathleen Cleaver, Bernardine Dohrn, David Gilbert,
Mark Rudd, Laura Whitehorn, Brian Flanagan, Naomi Jaffe and Todd Gitlin.

SYNOPSIS

"Hello, I'm going to read a declaration of a state of war...within the next 14 days we will attack a symbol or institution of American injustice."

--Bernardine Dohrn

Thirty years ago, with those words, a group of young American radicals
announced their intention to overthrow the U.S. government. In THE WEATHER
UNDERGROUND, former Underground members, including Bernardine Dohrn, Bill
Ayers, Mark Rudd, David Gilbert and Brian Flanagan, speak publicly about the idealistic passion that drove them to "bring the war home" and the trajectory that placed them on the FBI’s most wanted list.

Fueled by outrage over racism and the Vietnam War, the Weather Underground waged a low-level war against the U.S. government through much of the
‘70s--bombing targets across the country that they considered emblematic of the real violence that the U.S. was wreaking throughout the world.
Ultimately, the group’s carefully organized clandestine network managed to successfully evade one of the largest manhunts in FBI history, yet the
group’s members would reemerge to life in a country that was dramatically
different than the one they had hoped their efforts would inspire.

Extensive archival material, including photographs, film footage and FBI documents are interwoven with modern-day interviews to trace the group’s
path, from its pitched battles with police on Chicago’s streets, to its bombing of the U.S. Capitol, to its successful endeavor breaking acid-guru
Timothy Leary out of prison. The film explores the Weathermen in the context of other social movements of the time and features interviews with former
members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Black Panthers. It also examines the U.S. government’s suppression of dissent in
the 1960s and 1970s. Looking back at their years underground, the former members paint a compelling portrait of troubled times, revolutionary times,
and the forces that drove their resistance.

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www.theweatherunderground.com

"Thirty years ago...a group of young American radicals
announced their intention to overthrow the U.S. government."

They didn't.

Neither will you.

learn from the past and anarchy will prevail!

"This country with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -abraham lincoln

Guardian UK 8/22/03: Parole Board Stands by Boudin Release
new documentary opens 8/29 in Los Angeles at NuArt

in related news (link), Kathy Boudin has been granted Parole after 20 years
Boudin was a member of the Weather Underground, which came out of Students For a Democratic Society, as did the Progressive Labor Party (?), Revolutionary Communist Party, Rosa Luxemberg - SDS, South End Press / Zmag, etc etc.....

Kathy Boudin's son Chesa was raised by Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, also from the Weather organization.

SDS Wikipedia entry
David Gilbert on history of SDS
Steve Shalom clarifies RL-SDS connection with Chomsky and Michael Albert
an account of "Glory Days" from Michael Albert
Pardun movie on SDS

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anticrisis

lynx

latest comments

You're telling me to do something you have not?

Name one successful, long-term, large-scale anarchist society.

Then we can talk.

the global resistance has already begun. It is only a matter of time, until this empire falls as all others before it have. It is inevitable.

Sitting around coffee shops fantasizing about taking over the world without any concrete plans on how to do it is not "already begun".

...that in my world, the sky is green.

"without any concrete plans on how to do it"

We have plans. We're going to spit in the face of the working class. That way, they'll want to be a part of us. Who wouldn't?

Don't have plans. Don't tell us we don't have plans. HAR!!

That was me. I'm obsessed with keeping the working class down. I'm a conservative.

That was me. I blame my own movements shortcomings and general incompetence to get anything accomplished on others. I am a liberal.

That was me. I blame my own shortcomings and general incompetence on niggers and immigrants. I am a conservative.

You shills are truly a confederacy of dunces. You operate by supposition and bad information...which is why you are losing the battle at home.

Get down on your knees, you jizz mopper.

I still foolishly believe this is smashtheleft. I've gotta pick up my head from outta by boyfriends lap more often.

You also need to put down your crack pipe more often. Idiot.

I've tried to smash the right for years and they just keep getting more and more powerful. The only place the left is getting more powerful is under the arms.

That was me. I'm delusional. I'm also a conservative. Surprise!

thus the post continue

pasted this from the Philadelphia Inquirer - - some reactions from Bernardine Dohrn:

"It's very strange and endlessly dissatisfying, watching somebody else telling your story. But I'm filled with admiration for [the directors]. The reason I initially agreed to participate [in the project] is that they authentically wanted to take a look at our history from their generation, and to talk to a younger generation about the history and the complexity of issues that were raised by it. And I think they did an honest job of that.

"The fact that it's excruciating to watch yourself is secondary," she adds, laughing.

In 2001, [Dohrn's husband Bill] Ayers published Fugitive Days: A Memoir, his account of the couple's decade underground, raising kids and on the run. Hollywood also tackled the subject - unofficially modeled on Ayers and Dohrn - in 1988's Running on Empty, in which Judd Hirschand Christine Lahti are the radicals-turned-parental- units trying to stay one step ahead of the feds.

"We didn't like the movie - that's the short version," Dohrn says. "I think the difference between Fugitive Days and that movie is the movie stripped away the context. I actually think that this is something that The Weather Underground film does well - it really does set you in the context of the moment... so you have a sense of the kind of urgency and global upheaval that was going on.

"Running on Empty makes it seem like [these] people were just marooned at the end of a bad drug trip... . We weren't Bonnie and Clyde, we were people on a political mission."

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some of my reactions to the new Weather Underground movie here:
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/08/78276_comment.php#81520
jump up in thread
the movie seems to be attracting more and more audiences....

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lynx

latest comments

anarchists are so dumb, wat a bunch of off-track idiots

last comment on thread Sep 09 2003
tyler durden thinks about it until May 02 2004
and comes up with the above. Dumb ster diving the archives?