Zayd Dohrn (above), the son of '60s radicals, has written a play based on a bombing at a Chicago rally in 1886.
article from 2003
Posted on 08/22/2008 10:59:06 PM PDT by Fred Nerks
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A bomb goes off in a Greenwich Village townhouse, killing three members of the militant Weather Underground. Afraid of being arrested, several of their comrades go on the run. The year is 1970.
The latter comes from his own life: Dohrn's parents, Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, were two of the Weathermen who fled. While there are similarities between the incidents, Dohrn insists he's not drawing on his parents' experience to tell the tale of two married radicals from a century before.
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"Like most writers today I felt like I needed to respond to what's going on in the world," Dohrn says. "I was kind of mystified how to respond politically without writing something polemic or allegorical, which don't come across as art very well."
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Obviously 9/11 and terrorism were on his mind. But in doing research, the Haymarket bombing came up.
The explosion happened when a group of anarchists assembled in Haymarket Square began to disperse. Shots were fired, killing 11 people, including seven policemen. Albert Parsons went into hiding but eventually emerged. Several anarchists were hung. It's generally accepted that none were responsible for the bomb.
"What seemed interesting is that people forget so easily," Dohrn says. "We need to make those connections between our time and historical events."
Hiding in plain sight Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn were among the most telegenic figures of the '60s radical movement. After the accidental explosion in the townhouse in 1970, Ayers and Dohrn went into hiding. They were put on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list.
Seven years later, their first son was born and joined their life underground. They named him Zayd, after murdered Black Panther Zayd Shakur...
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Zayd Dohrn (above), the son of '60s radicals, has written a play based on a bombing at a Chicago rally in 1886.
article from 2003
art for (f)arts sake...
Thank you, Fred.
Ping.
Three generations of Red Diapers are enough.
There is a money angle here, I think.
I believe a policeman was killed in one of the Dorhn/Ayers/WU bombings. I am not sure of the total number of persons killed, I think there was at least another incident that killed a chemist at a college lab late at night.
If this production were to be about his parents’ exploits, I think there is some legal basis to go after the profits from the work.
This fellow’s parents are so heinous that they should have been hung for treason and rehung for murder.
This fellow’s parents are so heinous that they should have been hung for treason and rehung for murder.
http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/weather.htm
420 PAGES:
In 1976, the FBI’s Chicago Field Office prepared a summary which described the activities of the Weather Underground Organization, also known as Weathermen. This organization described itself as a revolutionary organization of communist men and women. The FBI’s analysis of its motivations, beliefs, and international travels are outlined in this...
Posting link here for the record.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005519/replies?c=23
Overwhelming comment from Eye On The Left: MUST READ.
A handful of abortion clinic bombings and the entire pro-life movement is tainted.
hundreds of arson and bombing and sniper attacks by communists in the name of “peace” and the antiwar/far left movements aren’t tainted.
Funny how media bias works.
There is NO DOUBT as to their motives. Even in 1975 they are on camera in the documentary (available through Netflix and elsewhere) UNDERGROUND saying that communist revolution in America will come.
They were seditious. They were treasonous for supporting North Vietnam during the war and engaging in stateside guerilla war.
F. the Left before they F. us all.
Bombing the Pentagon is a federal crime no matter how you look at it.
And treason is a crime defined in the Constitution. There is no defined prosecution time either. Did Carter’s grand penstroke pardon them all?
I hadn’t thought about Carter’s amnesty, I thought that was just for draft evasion, but now that you raise the issue . . .
I was meaning to refer to legislation sometime ago (may have been Son of Sam inspired) that took the profits from published works by murderers and returned it to the victim’s family.
There were some legal challenges too, but I think the law still is on the books somewhere.
So that started me thinking with respect to Mr. Mainstream Ayers (Obama’s words, not mine) and what his son produced.
I’m an Australian, I don’t profess to understand or know the full story, but I am fascinated by how they got away without capital punishment, let alone graduate to positions of power in academia.
There was a trial of some sort for the Pentagon action but I think it ended in a mistrial and not a dismisal of the charges.
There were numerous actions from breaking Leary out of prison to evading arrest to other bombings...
Agreed.
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