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To: kattracks
And here's what's happened to the Weather Underground:

Bill Ayers was a central figure in the Weather Underground. He lived underground for 10 years, which he writes about in his memoir Fugitive Days. Ayers is currently a school reform activist and a professor of education at the University of Chicago at Illinois.

Kathleen Cleaver is best known as the former communications secretary of the Black Panther Party. She is a writer and senior lecturer at Emory University Law School.

Bernardine Dohrn was part of the leadership of the Weather Underground and considered the figurehead of the organisation. She spent the 1970s living underground and was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list. Today, Dohrn runs a juvenile justice program at Northwestern University.

Brian Flanagan was a member of the Weather Underground. He is currently a bar-owner in New York City.

David Gilbert was a member of the Weather Underground. When the organisation was dismantled, he joined the Black Liberation Army and plunged deeper into revolutionary violence. Gilbert is currently serving a life sentence at Attica Correctional Facility for his role in a hold-up gone awry.

Todd Gitlin was president of Students for a Democratic Society in 1963. He has written extensively on the Weather Underground and the 1960s counterculture. He is a professor of culture, journalism and sociology at New York University.

Naomi Jaffe was a member of the Weather Underground. She currently lives in Albany, New York and is executive director of a foundation that supports women's activism.

Mark Rudd was famous for his role in the 1968 Columbia protests. As part of the Weather Underground's leadership, he lived underground for several years during the 1970s. He now teaches at a junior college in New Mexico.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/weather-interviewees.shtml

11 posted on 12/02/2004 4:25:18 AM PST by angkor
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To: angkor

So only one of them is still in jail today.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Most of them were children of privilege - Susan Rosenberg was the daughter of a dentist and grew up on the Upper West Side - and many of them were from families with leftist connections from the 1930's or a track record of leftist activity. Once they got over their youthful burst of homicidal activity, they were welcomed back into the upper middle class leftist, academic environments from which many of them came.


14 posted on 12/02/2004 4:41:28 AM PST by livius
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To: angkor

Brian Flanagan has a REAL job? Where did he go wrong?


17 posted on 12/02/2004 7:14:27 AM PST by massgopguy (massgopguy)
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