the weather underground ( film )
one of the top documentaries, this award - winning film interweaves extensive archival material with modern - day interviews to explore the incredible story of the weather underground .
their story is history they don' t teach in school, which makes the weather underground all the more welcome .
the remarkable story of the weather underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous .
the weather underground leaves the viewer with many questions. to the filmmakers' credit, most of them are the right and urgent ones to ask .
the weather underground explores the unbelievable story of the weathermen, the notorious group of 70 s radicals who, outraged by the vietnam war and racism in america, went underground to wage a low - level war against the u. s. government, bombing targets across the country that they felt symbolized the real violence .
a cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of new york city .
as an exploration of the weathermen in the context of other social movements of the time, the film also features rare footage and interviews with former sds members and the black panthers, further examining the u. s. government' s suppression of dissent during the 1960s and 1970s. looking back at their years underground, former weather underground members paint a compelling portrait of troubled times, revolutionary times and the forces that drove their resistance home .
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one crucial moment documented in this film is when sds, with 100, 000 members an important force among american young people, was essentially hijacked at its 1969 national convention in chicago by the more radical weather faction .
if names such as bernadine dohrn, bill ayers, mark rudd, naomi jaffe and brian flanagan mean nothing to you, you' ll definitely want to see the thought - provoking documentary, the weather underground .
oh and you might want to check into an fbi agent assigned to the weather underground case. he said, while bill ayers was dangerous, bernardine dohrn was bat s * * * crazy and scared the h out of him .
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i' m not taking a left - right position here, i just believe terrorism and tyranny can be committed by any side of the political spectrum. ultimately, this is terrorism. there' s no qualms about that. whether you feel it is justified, as i presume you see the plo or weather underground as being, is completely up to your political and moral beliefs .
in 1970, a group of young american radicals called the weathermen announced their intention to overthrow the u. s. government. fueled by outrage over the vietnam war and racism in america, they went underground later in the decade, bombing targets across the country that they felt symbolized the real violence that the government and capitalist power were wreaking throughout the world. this oscar - nominated documentary interweaves extensive archival material with modern - day interviews to explore the group' s incredible story .
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todd gitlin called it; one of the founders of sds and later the author of a landmark book about the student left, he watched in dismay as the weather faction advocated the violent overthrow of the u. s. government. their program of terrorist bombings, he said ,
was essentially mass murder .
when a innocent person was killed in one of its early bombings, the group however decided that was
a terrible error ,
and took care that nobody was injured in a long series of later bombings, including one at the capitol in washington, d. c. but a greenwich village townhouse used by the weathermen as a bomb factory was destroyed in an accidental explosion that killed three bombmakers .
the internet was first in the hand of the government only and then because of the realisation of what could be done with it, it ended up in the hands of us all. i am not sure how many people are on the net daily or weekly but it has to be in the billions. the anti government is spread all over the world, the only thing they could do to really stop it is to unplug at the source. that is the real threat. az
a rare behind - the - curtain look at the earth liberation front, the radical environmental group that the fbi calls america' s' number one domestic terrorist threat.'
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great documentary, the moral of the story is never compromise morality for the sake of radical change, do what you can and the wrongs will be rewritten, the human spirit will never be conquered, it hasn' t in the history all of civilization. great new ideas will always make primitive ones obsolete, don' t overthrow the government overgrow the government, and keep hope alive .
basically the story of a man forced to finally see the injustice around him. riley’s movie is designed to do the same thing to you. …
i agree, if you think you are right and the rest are wrong the warning bells should go off. normally the truth of the matter is 50 / 50 from both sides view, sides are so far apart neither can see the correct answer .
life has many ways to bite people' s as $, it can come at you from any angles in a variety of ways. some fear the dark, the woods, the streets, the abroad or the internet. i like to take chance. az
@ john, i really like your post. i just want to add that i don' t think that the people in the rest of the world hate you, those who do should know that the people in the us are no different than anywhere else in the world. my personal view is that it is very unfortunate that the global power of your country is basically in the hands of uninformed (and misinformed), mainly untravelled voters who are primarily concerned with internal issues in the us. that makes them not too much different from voters in many countries of the world however. the problem is that such lack of understanding of global issues by the common people, paired with aggravation of the economic situation in the us, allows the power elite of your country to (mis) use its military power for the gain of essentially a few. but the same would have happened if any other country of the world gained global dominance. people like you, and many others who post here from the states, show to all of us that the bad politics of the us are denounced by many of its citizens .
the us government has access to the net as every government in the world has access to the net. i have gone around quite a bit, it has gotten possible to access the internet anywhere, with satellite internet. even badass guerillas are a click away. az
i' m 62 years old. i was in high school in the 60' s. i saw many things, but i never even heard of these people! good job hiding the truth msm !
power to
we the people .
what happened in nam was wrong, and every single act of terrorism committed by tptb, is also wrong! and yet ,
we the people
have done little - to nothing about it. where, oh where, are the balls of the american people? we' ve murdered millions of civilians all over the world; and continue to do so! however ,
violence begets violence .
and it is wrong as well! ps by
never heard of
i' m referring to the
underground... . society
democratic society? these so - called
college students
don' t seem to know, this country was designed to be republic! not a democracy. our founders stated, that a
democracy
is the worst form of government !
thanks john and it' s rare that someone has actually seen that brothel, israel from the inside through outsider' s eyes. but soviet union did' win the war' as stalin was handed over what hitler softened up; half of europe to carry on gulaging regardless. american grain and produce kept the bolshevick soviets in power and all the money funnelled into the eugenics and aerodynamics funded through hitler' s regime became the property of us and uk military. once the mission of destroying christianity, morality and family in the east, the wall came down and the floodgates opened as east morphs with west which was under fabian socialist communism on the left and fascist elitism on the right .
humanity will make it, but the whole system will need to change, and it will. change will come when they realize the system is broken or the broken break the system. time has infinite endings but some are inevitable .
i see dohrn at the conference on world affairs at the university of colorado, where she is as angry about the unnecessary criminalization of poor (often non - white) american young people as she was then about the war. she has, you must observe, the courage of her convictions .
the weathermen orchestrated a string of bombings, called for the
days of rage
in chicago, were in a vanguard of a more widespread anti - war movement that saw national guard troops on the campuses, the pentagon under siege by protesters including hippies who vowed to levitate it, and the infamous chicago 7 trial. whether the protest movement hastened the end of the vietnam war is hard to say, but it is likely that lyndon johnson' s decision not to run for re - election was influenced by the climate it helped to create .
i was repsonding to this post, you were implying the internet could be the awnser to a revolution in our generation, i was simply pointing out the internet works both ways and if you were ever suspected of wanting to overthrow the government they could easily see what you had written online in the past .
ironically, many charges against the weathermen had to be dropped because the fbi had violated the law with its
cointelpro ,
a secret agency to discredit the left. after the war ended and the weatherman movement faded away, dohrn and ayers lived in hiding for several years with their children - - an existence some say inspired the 1988 movie
running on empty .
eventually they turned themselves in, and today are leading productive, unrepentant lives .
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sorry if i came acrross agressive. i just don' t see how the communication on the net can be stopped at this point. az
the purpose of ww1 and ww11 was to' unite' europe into one superstate whilst settling palestine as the israeli' promised land'. which, incidently was first' thought' to be south africa! nice climate but a poor geopolitical location. even though balfour the jew unlawfully designated the land it was on the tacit understanding that the residents be treated with all due consideration and respect and that no action should be taken to harm or disposses the palestinian people. st david' s hotel put paid to any protection the british may have afforded those sold and betrayed .
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as former members reflect candidly about the idealistic passion that drove them to bring the war home, they paint a compelling portrait of troubled and revolutionary times, with unexpected and often striking connections to the current world situation .
directors sam green and bill siegel expertly limn the forces that gave rise to weatherman and clearly sympathize with the group' s motivations. at the same time, they don' t stint on weatherman' s follies .
all empires have been built on the blood of slavery by pyrates invading and claiming the land on behalf of thier elders and peers and as city of london, washington dc, vatican city, tel aviv, hong kong and dubai are infested by the same ilk, our attention should be rightly focussed on where the sources of the problems lie, closer to home .
our founding fathers noted that a straight democracy is a form of tyranny, as the majority becomes abusive of the rights of the minority. that is the reason that the us never was a straight democracy. we elect leaders who represent our interests, but they do so of their best judgement, such as it is. a republic has core principles that the majority is not allowed to overrule. a democracy does not inherently have such safeguards .
another fabulous documentary featuring one of the more radical elements of the' 60s protest movement (at least for white america). this is cat and mouse game between the authorities and those driven to change society in desparate ways .
i mean, millions upon millions have died in the name of creating classless society where the
oppressors
of old are basically replaced oppressors of new. thousands have died in the name of liberation or socialist terror movements as well .
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um... republic is a government without a monarchy. democracy is the political system. they are not mutually exclusive. you can' t have a republic with a king. or a democratic dictatorship. republic is the form, democracy the process .
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walter44 defending the judaic satanic crime syndicate operating out of israel and the city of london. interesting times we live in right now, they' re exposed for what they are, pedophile supremacists who have an insatiable lust for blood and love to us the west for their proxy wars. ahhh but their days are numbered, we are in the end times .
' humanity will make it' where? our species, just like the majority of species to ever inhabit the planet, will certainly not' make it' we are destined for extinction and seem intent on speeding that process up ourselves. the planet will make it .
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i hope not all the people on this site are pseudo intellectual types, seems that people just seem to try and get the upper hand even when comments are neutral and not agressive .
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whose side the documentarians are on is never clear - - in a muddy rather than an ambiguous way. did anyone die from the weathermen' s bombings? we don' t find out here .
a must - see for anyone interested in one of the most turbulent periods in recent american history .
its ok, and you were right, the government will never need to monitor all the likes or comments on the web and it would be impossible for them to do so. however, just imagine if stalins government had access to the web, it would be a living nightmare. i am not trying to say our current rulers are stalinesk but in the near future they may well be, and in that scenario anybody who is deemed anti government could easily have their previous intenret history used against them .
i find it that history repeats its self >: d the cycle of times of peace and war .
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an eye - opening look at idealism taken to extremes during one of the most turbulent periods of american history .
informative, disturbing documentary about a time of great upheaval in the usa, and a group of misguided people who chose the wrong direction to try and make a difference. just one question why aren' t these people in jail ?
the internet like most things can be used for both good or evil, its true we can now voice our opinions about politics and our stance on current affairs, but it is also true that our opinions and political stance can easily be found out. and im sure your aware that the people in power have very different agendas than you do. i' d be carefull about what you post on the internet, it may just bite you in the ass one day .
from a moral viewpoint i do think that in some cases violence is justified. when you are fighting a violent institutions that have such undemocratic chokeholds on society that peaceful solutions simply won' t work, the people in power leave no other options. but this applies only in extreme cases. and that is exactly the problem. when you live in a bubble of such stronghearted activists you lose your sense of selfevaluation. i wouldn' t use violence as a mean to create a better world, simply because it is not effective. the cruelty that is required for militant action will stick on you, so even if you succeed to overthrow the people in power, you will not get new leaders that will bring the peaceful world. i think that many of the cruel revolutionaries started off as genuine goodwilled people who turned bad because of all the violence that came with their struggle .
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they had a lot of revolutionary ideas, people, reasons but they didn' t have the internet. we do. az
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i don' t know your whole conversation, but of course there is such thing as leftist tyranny. if leftists believe equality and social justice is the prime goal for society and politics, the more extreme your tactics to get there could easily lead you to tyranny .
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they had a lot of revolutionary ideas, people, reasons but they didn' t have the internet. we do. az
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excellent documentary lifting the lid on another hidden part of our history. it' s easy to tell when a thought - provoking doc lands because all the trolls come out :) if israel is so democratic, how come they build a wall to exclude all those who they disagree with? bit like the roman empire and hadrian' s wall - that' s not democracy but aparteid like in former south africa .
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you know how many
press enter
a second are happening on the internet at once. who' s going to keep a tab on that? of course if
the law
wants to check on a certain person, the law can search on a computer' s past actions. they have done that for child pornography for exemple but those who are caught are such a minimum compare to those who abuse. in a way i see it as a way of creating fear in people. i have written many opinions about pot growing, should that make me fear the cops at my door? to some it would. but why would they lose their time with little me when guys like julian assange and his many followers are busy riduculing the law and the government and they get away with it. if anything they want you to fear. are you a funny one? az
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in the sixties, i thought the future would never arrive. over forty years later and i' m still waiting. inevitable... not from my experience. its wait till tomorrow until there are no tomorrows left. then my kids and grandkids can take over waiting for this inevitable future .
very very few ashkenazi or sephardic jews live in the middle east, far preffering the fat innards of their host countries but then, they belong nowhere on earth, as israel is an ideology, a religion of world conquest and domination over nature and' goy'. it would be in error to think that, should the location of israel come under attack, the problem of' israel' will have been solved as many would like to believe. your analogy of texas being invaded by ashkenazi israeli' s is accurate and already a fait accompli' - that' s exactly how it works .
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they
is anyone group who tried to reverse the flow of power and bring equality ,
we
is anyone group who will try in the future or is trying as we write. as for me, my battle has been an everyday
eyes in eyes, hands in hands
kind of thing. az
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ultimately, this movement not only failed but probably helped nixon get elected. question: dohrn and rudd now are alive and well and out of jail. in what other countries would anyone who engaged in violent overthrow of the government still be alive. answer. western style democracies and certainly not any of the leftist tyrannies these people took as a model. and certainly not the islamofascist palestinian cause that some of these lemmings agitate in favor of today. incidentally, israel is a western style democracy
roger ebert' s speech on empathy for the
11th hour
series on april 9th, 1994, being republished here in honor of his birthday june 18 .
wrong
how? all i said is that the potential for tyranny and radicalism exists within any ideology, even if you personally believe that ideology has supremely good intentions .
i really enjoyed this documentary. i think their ideas were good, but their method to carry them out was wrong. ways change, but the struggle still goes on! ! !
excellent doc, this sheds light on a fascinating time in american and in a way, world history. it was a point when youth across the world felt revolution was really possible... and to see what these kids, who are basically my age, were thinking when they decided to become urban guerillas and attack symbols of the united states, is really eye opening. in 2011, one could not feel that there was some major precedent in 1965 - 1973 when protests and riots seemed to happen everywhere, inspired by uprisings in the arab world .
to those of you who agreed with these people just because you watched their version of things, you' re the kinds of people hitler would have loved because you would never bother to verify anything you were told .
the purpose of ww1 and ww11 was to' unite' europe into one superstate... ...... ... where did you go to school... afghanistan... unite europe. .? ww1 if you know any thing was started for no apparent reason other then cousins in a pissing contest... find the doc on ww1... in this top doc website... ww2... .. the allies joined to unite. . who. ? england, france... boy can you please send me what you smoke. .? read what i left for you kindergarten drop outs... again lord balfour was not a jew go to wiki... . they always state if the person is jewish... ...... . and jesus was a jew is incorrect... he is still a jew... ...... ... he never denounced being jewish... .. he denounced some practices of the powers that were ...
for starters, most of you probably don' t even know that jane fonda visited a north vietnamese prison camp for american prisoners, and betrayed a bunch of them to the camp commander so they were tortured and / or executed .
: once richard nixon was elected president and inaugurated in january 1969, we were targeted, bam, bam, bam, by a very sophisticated, advanced, counterintelligence program; at the same time, by very crude and violent police .
argue with you? stalin, mao, weren' t mass murdering tyrants? israeli arabs aren' t granted full citizenship unlike the so called palestinians who are second class citizens in all arab countries. what' s there to argue? one must argue with facts and you have none goodbye
leftist tyrannies
?? ? - - an oxym * ron walter. no such thing as a
leftist
tyranny .
an oxym * ron only to a m * ron. let' s list a few leftist tyrannies: stalin' s russia, mao' s china, nicolae ceau? escu' s romania, pol pot' s cambodia, ulrich' s east germany, enver hoxha' a albania to name a few. as for your comments on israel, well they lack any facts. i won' t waste too much time teaching you things you should know before you jabber nonsense. i' ve been to israel several times. guess what. the arabs in israel are granted full citizenship. they even have representatives in the knesset who were voted in. arabs are full citizens in israel while the so called palestinians you babble about were confined to refugee camps and treated as second class citizens in all arab countries. these so called palestinians have engaged in serial mass murder in terrorists attacks. i suggest you learn your facts instead of being a knee jerk leftist .
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lol. i love arguing with people like you. al i have to do is state my case, and then watch you prove me right with your mindless, reckless, unrestrained hate and venom .
definitely a top doc. loved this. so glad they did what they did without killing anyone other than a few of their own. have a feeling that was more luck than judgement though. i guess if your going to start a revolution you might as well do it in style. if your going to be a bear, be a grizzly: )
hi az, who is we, and what exactly do you stand for. i' m not being a smart a $ $ i' m just trying to find a level for your way of thinking .
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i doubt anything will change it least for another 1. 000 years or more. but that shouldn' t stop us from trying >: d
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the weather underground is a 2002 documentary film based on the rise and fall of the american radical organization the weathermen . using much archive footage from the time as well as interviews with the weathermen today , the film constructs a linear narrative of the organization . the film , directed by sam green and bill siegel won the audience choice award at the chicago underground film festival and went on to be nominated for an academy award in 2004 . 
the weather underground is a 2002 documentary film based on the rise and fall of the american radical organization the weathermen. using much archive footage from the time as well as interviews with the weathermen today, the film constructs a linear narrative of the organization. the film, directed by sam green and bill siegel won the audience choice award at the chicago underground film festival and went on to be nominated for an academy award in 2004.
the weather underground is a 2002 documentary film based on the rise and fall of the american radical organization the weathermen. using much archive footage from the time as well as interviews with the weathermen today, the film constructs a linear narrative of the organization. the film, directed by sam green and bill siegel won the audience choice award at the chicago underground film festival and went on to be nominated for an academy award in 2004.