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The Weather Underground
By Andrew Farrell and Tate Hollander
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Mission of the Weatherman
To form a Clandestine Revolutionary party to overthrow the U.S. government
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Timeline 1962: Students l for a Democratic Society (SDS) First convention is held 1969: Weatherman form as a splinter group from the SDS Haymarket Police Memorial bombing Days of Rage Flint War Council 1970: Park Precinct Police Station bombing Greenwich Village townhouse explosion Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark die in a Chicago police raid, and the Weathermen form
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Timeline 1970: New York City arson attacks NYC Police Bombing
Indictment of Leaders Timothy Leary Prison break 1972: Pentagon Bombings 1981: Brinks Robbery, 3 people killed trying to killed an armor car
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Motives of “The Weatherman”
“Bring The War Home” “2,000 deaths a day in Vietnam” “Direct Action” Racial inequality Black Power Redistribute wealth "We're against everything that's good and decent in honky America,” -John Jacobs
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What do they do now?
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