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Weather Underground Research Paper

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The Weatherman, an organization that is now known as the Weather Underground, was organized in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) that broke with Progressive Labor. They had a specific goal which was to create a clandestine revolutionary party for the overthrow of the U.S. government. The attempts to achieve this was having campaigns of bombings on government buildings through the 1970’s and then it was taking part in actions of Timothy Leary’s jailbreak. Leary has been described as the “most dangerous man in America”. He has been arrested enough to see the inside of 29 different prisons worldwide. With some early events contrived in a three day chaos called the Days of Rage, a series of direct actions by the WUO in …show more content…

It started in 1962 when the first convention was held by SDS and they were calling for progressive alliances among activist groups. They were really busy in 1970, a year the bombing manufacturing went awry and Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers and Kathy Boudin were sent into hiding.While in hiding they were not returning to the jobs and stayed out of the streets. They stayed in hiding for seven years and came out surrendering to the police in 1977. The punishment for them was two years probation and only three years of prison. After everything was cleared, Boudin became a member of a new group. The group fell between the weather underground and the Black Liberation Army and was called the May 19th Communist Organization. It’s name came from joint birthdays of Ho Chi Minh and Malcom X. There were three objectives for this alliance; 1. to free political prisoners held in American prisons, 2. to use appropriation of capitalist wealth to fund the third stage, and 3. to initiate a series of bombings and terrorist attacks. Boudin’s lifestyle was constantly being involved in law outbreaks as …show more content…

“Former Underground member Kathy Boudin and her soon-to-be husband, David Gilbert, were accomplices in the robbery of a Brinks armored car in Nyack, New York. In the course of that heist, one Brinks guard and two Nyack police officers were murdered. Also involved in the robbery was Judith Clark, who had served a prison term for her participation in the "Days of Rage." Boudin hired attorney Leonard Weinglass, a law partner of her father, to defend her in the case. Weinglass arranged for a plea bargain whereby Boudin pled guilty to one count of felony murder and robbery, in exchange for a prison sentence of twenty years to life. She was paroled in 2003, however, over strong opposition from New York State police. Gilbert remains in New York's Attica State Prison, having refused to bargain” (“Weathermen”). Also on this year Kathy Boudin resurfaces to participate in an armed robbery in Nanuet, New York through Weather Underground. Death comes upon three men and finally Boudin is sentenced for 22 years in

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