The Weather Underground

Now, I wouldn't go so far as to say that there needs to be a war. YET. But there are definitely some things to think about regarding one... If all of the legitimate grievances are ignored, I'd say the ruling class is illegitimate, and there will have to be a discussion. Right now we're on a hair trigger.

"Hello. This is Bernardine Dohrn.

I'm going to read A DECLARATION OF A STATE OF WAR.

This is the first communication from the Weatherman underground.

All over the world, people fighting Amerikan imperialism look to Amerika's youth to use our strategic position behind enemy lines to join forces in the destruction of the empire.

Black people have been fighting almost alone for years. We've known that our job is to lead white kids into armed revolution. We never intended to spend the next five or twenty-five years of our lives in jail. Ever since SDS became revolutionary, we've been trying to show how it is possible to overcome the frustration and impotence that comes from trying to reform this system. Kids know the lines are drawn revolution is touching all of our lives. Tens of thousands have learned that protest and marches don't do it. Revolutionary violence is the only way.
          -This segment is about the assassination of Mark Clark by the Chicago police. 1969 assassination of Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark by the Chicago police. The group had effectively been underground since the previous month’s SDS meeting, which became known as the “Flint War Council.”

Now we are adapting the classic guerrilla strategy of the Viet Cong and the urban guerrilla strategy of the Tupamaros to our own situation here in the most technically advanced country in the world.

Ché taught us that "revolutionaries move like fish in the sea." The alienation and contempt that young people have for this country has created the ocean for this revolution.

The hundreds and thousands of young people who demonstrated in the Sixties against the war and for civil rights grew to hundreds of thousands in the past few weeks actively fighting Nixon's invasion of Cambodia and the attempted genocide against black people. The insanity of Amerikan "justice" has added to its list of atrocities six blacks killed in Augusta, two in Jackson and four white Kent State students, making thousands more into revolutionaries.
-The attempted genocide was a reference to several murders that took place between blacks and the police in Las Angeles 1969. Daniel Berger wrote in his book "Outlaws of America The Weather Underground and Politics of Solidarity" "Just four days after the Hampton-Clark murders,…the Los Angeles Black Panther headquarters survived an unprovoked pre-dawn attack from police that lasted five hours…But LA was the exception…[T]wenty-seven Panthers were murdered and 749 arrested in 1969 alone."

The parents of "privileged" kids have been saying for years that the revolution was a game for us. But the war and the racism of this society show that it is too fucked-up. We will never live peaceably under this system.

This was totally true of those who died in the New York townhouse explosion. The third person who was killed there was Terry Robbins, who led the first rebellion at Kent State less than two years ago.

The twelve Weathermen who were indicted for leading last October's riots in Chicago have never left the country. Terry is dead, Linda was captured by a pig informer, but the rest of us move freely in and out of every city and youth scene in this country. We're not hiding out but we're invisible.
-The riots in October are referring to the Days of Rage where Dohrn led her helmeted troops into Chicago for throwing rocks and fighting police in October 1969.

There are several hundred members of the Weatherman underground and some of us face more years in jail than the fifty thousand deserters and draft dodgers now in Canada. Already many of them are coming back to join us in the underground or to return to the Man's army and tear it up from inside along with those who never left.

We fight in many ways. Dope is one of our weapons. The laws against marijuana mean that millions of us are outlaws long before we actually split. Guns and grass are united in the youth underground.
-Author Dan Berger wrote in his book on the Weather Underground that this kind of “uncritical celebration of drug culture…showed that the organization was still somewhat enamored of a militartist vision of being outlaws”

Freaks are revolutionaries and revolutionaries are freaks. If you want to find us, this is where we are. In every tribe, commune, dormitory, farmhouse, barracks and townhouse where kids are making love, smoking dope and loading guns—fugitives from Amerikan justice are free to go.

For Diana Oughton, Ted Gold and Terry Robbins, and for all the revolutionaries who are still on the move here, there has been no question for a long time now—we will never go back.
-All of these people were killed in the New York Townhouse Explosion by the bomb they had been building the detonated prematurely.

Within the next fourteen days we will attack a symbol or institution of Amerikan injustice. This is the way we celebrate the example of Eldridge Cleaver and H. Rap Brown and all black revolutionaries who first inspired us by their fight behind enemy lines for the liberation of their people.
-On June 10, 1970, the Weatherman group bombed the New York City police headquarters, just a few days after the deadline set in this artifact. Dan Berger wrote in his book, "With widespread resentment and anger at police violence — from communities of color as well as white youth — the police station was a logical choice as the most visible manifestation of a racist state. Seven police officers were cut from shattered glass in the explosion, but there were no serious injuries. Due to Weather’s commitment to engaging in armed propaganda only, no one else was injured by a Weather Underground bombing in the ensuing seven years."

Never again will they fight alone.

May 21, 1970"