The Weather Underground (E9)

June 8
50 mins

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Episode Description

One of the most well-known but least understood movements in the history of the American revolutionary left, the Weather Underground Organization is on our docket in this first of a two-part episode on domestic revolutionary groups in the USA. Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus explore it with you.

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Research and writing by Edwin O’Connell. Editing by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is Left Me With a Memory by The Montgomery Express.

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Bibliography

  • Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Anti-War Activist by William Ayers
  • Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence by Bryan Burrough
  • “Meet The Weather Underground’s Bomb Guru” in Vanity Fair by Bryan Burrough
  • Bad Moon Rising How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution by Arthur M. Eckstein
  • Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond by David Gilbert
  • “From COINTELPRO to Snowden, the FBI Burglars Speak Out After 43 Years of Silence” in Democracy Now! by Amy Goodman
  • SDS/WUO: Students For A Democratic Society And The Weather Underground Organization by David Gilbert
  • “Chicago's Forgotten 'Days of Rage'” in WTTW by Daniel Hautzinger
  • “Harvard Bomb Blast Damages Center for International Affairs” in the New York Times by Robert Reinhold
  • Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen – A Gripping Memoir of Political Awakening and Seven Years as a FBI Most Wanted Fugitive by Mark Rudd
  • False Nationalism False Internationalism by E. Tani and Kaé Sera
  • “Weather Underground: Driving down a dead end street” by George Tyler
  • Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism by the Weather Underground
  • You Don’t Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows by the Weather Underground
  • Flying Too Close To The Sun by Cathy Wilkerson
  • “Chicago: Law and Disorder” by the Chicago History Museum
  • “Black History, And The Weather Underground Organization in America, a story” by the African American Registry
  • The Road to Radicalization: Tracking the Development of the Weather Underground’s Ideology (an honors thesis) by Rachel McKee
  • “The Crazy True Story Of The Weather Underground” in Grunge by K. Wells
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