This communication from the Weather Underground was published on Sept 15, 1970 and explains how they helped political prisoner Dr. Timothy Leary escape.
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Communique 3 (on Cuba) From The Weather Underground(1970)
1840-1945, Date, Defining the Enemy, ImperialismThis communication from the Weather Underground was published on July 26, 1970 and celebrates the anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.
Communique 2 From The Weather Underground (1970)
1946-1989, Authority, Date, Defining the Enemy, Sabotage/Ecotage, Tactics of DisruptionThis communication from the Weather Underground was published on June 9, 1970 and takes responsibility for the bombing of a police headquarters.
Communique 1 From The Weather Underground (1970)
1946-1989, Date, Defining the Enemy, Disruptive Spaces, Imperialism, Institutions, Sabotage/Ecotage, Tactics of Disruption, White SupremacyThis communication from the Weather Underground was published on May 21,1970 and declares war on the United States of America.
Weatherman edited by Harold Jacobs (1970)
1946-1989, Authority, Date, Defining the Enemy, Imperialism, Sabotage/Ecotage, Tactics of Disruption, The BourgeoisieThis book details the founding of the Weather Underground, as well as strategies for accomplishing their goals.
You Do Need A Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows by Shin’ya Ono (1969)
1946-1989, Authority, Date, Defining the Enemy, Disruptive Spaces, Imperialism, Institutions, Sabotage/Ecotage, Tactics of Disruption, Urban Spaces, White SupremacyThis essay by Shin’ya Ono was printed in Leviathan in December 1969. She writes, “What I
would like to go into here is how the Chicago action, and the Weatherman logic behind it,
made, and still makes, compelling sense…”
Brochure by the Weather Underground (1969)
1946-1989, Authority, Blockade/Barricade, Date, Defining the Enemy, Imperialism, Students, Subjectives of Refusal, Tactics of DisruptionThis is an organizing pamphlet written by the Weather Underground for a November 15, 1969 anti-war demonstration.
You Don’t Need a Weatherman To Know Which Way the Wind Blows by the Weather Underground (1969)
1946-1989, Authority, Date, Defining the Enemy, Imperialism, White SupremacyThe Weather Underground was a radical left militant faction of the Student Group Students for a Democratic Society. This position paper was distributed at an SDS convention in Chicago on June 18, 1969.
The contradiction between the revolutionary peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America and the imperialists headed by the United States is the principal contradiction in the contemporary world. The development of this contradiction is promoting the struggle of the people of the whole world against US imperialism and its lackeys.
Weather Underground – Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism (1970)
1946-1989, Authority, Date, Defining the Enemy, Imperialism, Sabotage/Ecotage, Subjectives of Refusal, Subjects Redefined, Tactics of DisruptionThe accidental explosion of a Greenwich Village townhouse during a bomb-making session in 1970 left the Weather Underground– a radical left organization formed in 1969– distraught. In an attempt to reunify under their original goals at the time of formation, the group published a book, Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-imperialism. The book was intended to make a plan for organizing not just within the WU, but also with other radical left groups, and share ideologies, tactics, and lessons, all under the umbrella of anti-imperialism.