Weather Underground

[leftofcool]

It is unlikely that this group is still active and even if it still has members, they will not have a web site but here is a link to a documentary so you can get a general idea of who they were:

http://www.upstatefilms.org/weather/main.html

Left of Cool

[SteppingRazor]

1. They definitely don't still have members, and they definitely aren't active...

the group's 40 years old, the members that didn't manage to blow themselves up are now weirdly respectable -- college professors and whatnot.

[leftofcool]

2. I wouldn't know

I haven't been in touch with anyone in years who knew them. The documentary is excellent though.

Left of Cool

[EFerrari]

10. Moms, bakers and community activists.

lol

:)

[leftofcool]

11. absolutely!

[leveymg]

14. That's because those who survived held security clearances, before they were universally required

Quite a few of the leadership, anyway.



----------------Weirdly respectable, indeed------------------------

[madokie]

3. Thats been a while huh

I clicked on this thinking it was something about the weather underground web site. what a susprise

[leftofcool]

6. You would have had to have been a teenager

or there abouts in about 1967 to have actually heard of them. Other than watching the documentary, I haven't thought about them in years but I remember them.

Left of Cool

[orleans]

20. i vaguely remember them and i was just a kid. n/t

[madokie]

23. yes'em graduated in '66

a few days ago I must admit. I had totally forgotten about them but for a while there they were on everyones mind.

[idovoodoo]

4. I'm a member!

http://www.wunderground.com/

:evilgrin:

[gilpo]

5. Me too!

http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KMNSAVAG5

[leveymg]

7. No signs of the Weathermen, but there is a site for Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

or something, or someone calling itself that: http://www.sds.revolt.org/MembershipCard.htm

You can even print off an official SDS memnership card:

Just fill it out, and mail it, postage paid to this address:

J. Edgar Hoover Building 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001

B-) :hippie: :toast: :smoke:

[durutti]

8. This is the surviving remnant...

Prairie Fire Organizing Committee: http://www.prairiefire.org/

Prairie Fire started as an "aboveground" group influenced by Weather's later ideas, and I think had some actual contact with Weather. It's still active.

Also, SDS has been revived in recent years, and some of its members of influenced by Weather. Former Weatherpeople (many of whom are still politically active, albeit not blowing stuff up) have spoken at their events.

[leftofcool]

12. Thank for the site link

Students for a Democratic Society. I remember when some of us chained ourselves to administration buildings at college campuses everywhere for students rights. When your son or daughter comes home from college telling you about the evaluation he/she was able to fill out on professors, remember those of us who made that possible. LOL!

Left of Cool

[ben_meyers]

9. Look out kid, don't matter what you did

You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows.

[tibbiit]

17. I will add further to your post:)

The weatherunderground got their name from that song by bob dylan that you are quoting.

Subterranean Homesick Blues.

Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trench coat
Badge out, laid off
Says he's got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doin' it again
You better duck down the alley way
Lookin' for a new friend
The man in the coon-skin cap
In the big pen
Wants eleven dollar bills
You only got ten

Maggie comes fleet foot
Face full of black soot
Talkin' that the heat put
Plants in the bed but
The phone's tapped anyway
Maggie says that many say
They must bust in early May
Orders from the D. A.
Look out kid
Don't matter what you did
Walk on your tip toes
Don't try "No Doz"
Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows

Get sick, get well
Hang around a ink well
Ring bell, hard to tell
If anything is goin' to sell
Try hard, get barred
Get back, write braille
Get jailed, jump bail
Join the army, if you fail
Look out kid
You're gonna get hit
But users, cheaters
Six-time losers
Hang around the theaters
Girl by the whirlpool
Lookin' for a new fool
Don't follow leaders
Watch the parkin' meters

Ah get born, keep warm
Short pants, romance, learn to dance
Get dressed, get blessed
Try to be a success
Please her, please him, buy gifts
Don't steal, don't lift
Twenty years of schoolin'
And they put you on the day shift
Look out kid
They keep it all hid
Better jump down a manhole
Light yourself a candle
Don't wear sandals
Try to avoid the scandals
Don't wanna be a bum
You better chew gum
The pump don't work
'Cause the vandals took the handles


Copyright © 1965; renewed 1993 Special Rider Music

Bob Dylan really did (imo) one of the first videos for this song back then. I know you have all seen it parodied over and over thru the years.
tib

and here it is, aint you tube grand?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-xIulyVsG8

[ben_meyers]

22. And over 40 years later, same stuff.

Well except for Dylan doing Cadillac Escalade promotions.



http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/23/dylan-pulls-off-highway-61-in-sellout-ville-driving-escalade/

[warren pease]

13. Early morning fog, clearing by mid-morning, partly cloudy with showers likely by late afternoon...

And that's today's micro-forecast for our sacred Fuhrer Bunker and Cheney's undisclosed hole in the ground.


wp

[Warpy]

15. I remember them well. I was a peace creep, myself,

and had little use for their direct action approach, although even then I realized both approaches were generally needed for true change to happen.

Too bad, really. I'd learned how to handle explosives safely in high school during my teenager from hell years and they could have avoided blowing themselves up so often under my tutelage.

Ah, missed opportunities. I will still never embrace violence, though. I'm not that bad a Buddhist.

[DinahMoeHum]

16. If you want to know what consequences of actions look like. . .

come down to New York City, at 18 West 11th Street.

You'll see one rebuilt rowhouse there totally different in facade and architecture than the others.
Unitl March 6, 1970, 18 West 11th Street looked like all the others on that block. It was the site of Weatherman's bomb-making factory until it literally blew up in their faces.

I also recommend reading the book "Diana - The Making of a Terrorist" by Pulitzer Prize laureates
Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers:
http://www.thelamp.ca/film/index.php?id=27
although it's been out of print for years, you can still find a copy in a library or a used-book store. It's the life-story of one of the 3 victims of the explosion.

:evilfrown:

[leftofcool]

18. Seen it and read the book as well

Very few of us agreed with their tactics but we understood the rage.

Left of Cool

[hootinholler]

19. I'll have a look tonight n/t

[bbernardini]

21. Jim Boggia's song "Underground" is about one of the members of the Weather Underground.

It's on his "Safe In Sound" album. Available on iTunes. :) http://www.jimboggia.com