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The Weather Underground

A : [[documentary]] [[film]]

About the [[Weather Underground]].

  • Radicalised by [[Vietnam War]].

  • Marches on Washington not working in their eyes.

  • They felt they were part of wider worldwide [[revolution]] at the time.

  • Wanted to overthrow [[capitalist]] system and put in place something more humane.

  • Grew out of [[Students for a Democratic Society]]. The Weathermen took it over.

  • Took their name from Bob Dylan song.

  • Aimed to establish themselves in [[working class]] neighbourhoods.

  • Smash monogamy.

  • Riots in Chicago - "Days of Rage" Black Panthers distanced from them.

  • Murder of [[Fred Hampton]]. Altamont. Charles Bronson. My Lai. The sixties was over.

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