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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