Weather underground history

The Weather Underground was a far-left Marxist militant organization first active infounded on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan.

Weather Underground is a commercial weather service providing real-time weather information over the Internet. Weather Underground provides weather reports for most major cities around the world on its Web site, as well as local weather reports for newspapers and third-party sites. The site is available in many languages, and customers can access an ad-free version of the site with additional features for an annual fee. The company is based in San Francisco , California and was founded in as an offshoot of the University of Michigan internet weather database. The name is a reference to the s radical left-wing militant organization the Weather Underground , which also originated at the University of Michigan.

Weather underground history

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The Weather Underground was a far-left Marxist militant organization first active in , founded on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan. In the s, the WUO conducted a bombing campaign targeting government buildings and several banks. Some attacks were preceded by evacuation warnings, along with threats identifying the particular matter that the attack was intended to protest. Three members of the group were killed in an accidental Greenwich Village townhouse explosion , but none were killed in any of the bombings. The WUO began to disintegrate after the United States reached a peace accord in Vietnam in , [9] [ page needed ] and it was defunct by Some members of the WUO joined the May 19th Communist Organization and continued their activities until that group disbanded in The group took its name from Bob Dylan 's lyric "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows", from the song " Subterranean Homesick Blues " This founding document called for a "White fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other radical movements [11] to achieve "the destruction of U. The Weathermen emerged from the campus-based opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War and from the civil rights movement of the s.

Weather underground history

Daniel S. The Weather Underground, originally known as Weatherman, was a small group of white radicals that splintered from Students for a Democratic Society in The group carried out approximately twenty-five politically motivated bombings inside the United States before dissolving in amid internal conflict, all while evading a massive Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI dragnet. A historian of classical antiquity at the University of Maryland, Arthur M. Eckstein decided to add to the literature on the Weather Underground after being introduced to thousands of declassified FBI documents on the group that the National Archives made available in June and September Eckstein also conducted oral histories with former Weather Underground members. With copious detail, Bad Moon Rising documents Weatherman's unfruitful efforts to ignite a revolutionary uprising in the United States and the FBI 's unsuccessful attempt to defeat the group.

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A few hundred people took to the Chicago streets. Arms raised in protest, some donned football helmets while others carried steel pipes, baseball bats, and chains.

A group led by Klonsky became known as RYM II, and the other side, RYM I, was led by Dohrn and endorsed more aggressive tactics such as direct action , as some members felt that years of nonviolent resistance had done little or nothing to stop the Vietnam War. According to David Gilbert , who took part in the Brink's robbery that killed two police officers and a Brink's guard, and was jailed for murder, "[their] goal was to not hurt any people, and a lot of work went into that. It was intended to make group members believe that they were, deep down, white supremacists by subjecting them to constant criticism to break them down. March 6, Oakland, Calif. American far-left militant organization, — Cary — John R. Retrieved December 26, Weather Underground president Alan Steremberg wrote "Blue Skies" for the project, a graphical Mac Gopher client, which won several awards. The Vietnamese and other third world countries, as well as third world people within the United States play a vanguard role. Seattle Liberation Front Michael Lerner. Wayne State University Press, , p. Archived from the original on October 13, For other uses, see Weather Underground disambiguation.