In 2017, Weather Underground removed support for "Storm," in favor of the "Storm Radar" app released by The Weather Channel Interactive in June 2017. We recognize our responsibility to use data and technology for good. [15], At this convention the Weatherman's faction of the Students for a Democratic Society, planned for October 8–11, as a "National Action" built around John Jacobs' slogan, "bring the war home". [6] The Weathermen strongly sympathized with the radical Black Panther Party. This page was last edited on 11 January 2021, at 19:24. By using this title the Weathermen meant, partially, to appeal to the segment of U.S. youth inspired to action for social justice by Dylan's songs. Subsequently, they accepted funding, training, recommendations on tactics and slogans from Cuba, and perhaps explosives as well. [69] The shift in the organization's outlook was in good part due to the 1970 death of Weatherman Terry Robbins, Diana Oughton and Ted Gold, all graduate students, in the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion. Three members of the group were killed in an accidental Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, but none were killed in any of the bombings. On July 2, 2012, The Weather Channel announced that it would acquire Weather Underground, which would become operated as part of The Weather Channel Companies, LLC, which was later renamed "The Weather Company". The resolution, titled "The Elections Don't Mean Shit—Vote Where the Power Is—Our Power Is In The Street" and adopted by the council, was prompted by the success of the Democratic National Convention protests in August 1968 and reflected Jacobs' strong advocacy of direct action.[17]. We never intended to spend the next five to twenty-five years of our lives in jail. Contribute to un1versal/weather.wunderground development by creating an account on GitHub. The files detailed the targeting of civil rights leaders, labor rights organizations, and left wing groups in general, and included documentation of acts of intimidation and disinformation by the FBI, and attempts to erode public support for those popular movements. 41-43. Terrorists intimidate, while we aimed only to educate. We felt that doing nothing in a period of repressive violence is itself a form of violence. The crowd ran four blocks before encountering police barricades. 2 for Internet weather information in 2008.[6]. At college campuses throughout the country, anger against "the Establishment's" practices prompted both peaceful and violent protest. A former member of the Weather Underground, she served sixteen years in federal prison before being pardoned by President Bill Clinton in 2001. [4][5] The "Days of Rage" was the WUO's first riot in October 1969 in Chicago, timed to coincide with the trial of the Chicago Seven. [9][21][22][23][24], The War Council ended with a major speech by John Jacobs. Thereafter, any leaflet, label, or logo bearing the name "Students for a Democratic Society" (SDS) was in fact the views and politics of Weatherman, not of the slate elected by Progressive Labor. In 1995 Weather Underground Inc. became a commercial entity separate from the university. [2] An FBI report stated that they had enough explosives to "level… both sides of the street". Dez NfS Underground: Spiel durchspielen! This project was aimed at creating an interracial movement of the poor that would mobilize for full and fair employment or guaranteed annual income and political rights for poverty class Americans. These grand juries caused Sylvia Jane Brown, Robert Gelbhard, and future members of the Seattle Weather Collective to be subpoenaed in Seattle and Portland for the investigation of one of the first (and last) captured WUO members. While the Weathermen's sexual politics did allow women to assert desire and explore relationships with each other, it also made them vulnerable to sexual exploitation. "The goal of revolutionary struggle must be the control and use of this wealth in the interest of the oppressed peoples of the world." Growing up Underground. Post by gazman » Sun Sep 25, 2016 6:26 am. These icons were created by the Graphic Designer Ashley Jager.She released these icons in a beautiful Adobe Illustrator file. They also aimed to convince people to resist reliance upon their given privilege and to rebel and take arms if necessary. This founding document called for a "White fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other radical movements[9] to achieve "the destruction of U.S. imperialism and form a classless communist world". She was and is a domestic terrorist allied with Bill Ayers, Barack Obama’s colleague for three years at Annenberg. [113], After COINTELPRO was dissolved in 1971 by J. Edgar Hoover,[114] the FBI continued its counterintelligence on groups like the Weather Underground. "[6], This article is about the United States political organization. Go to the Weather Underground homepage. In December 1969, the Chicago Police Department, in conjunction with the FBI, conducted a raid on the home of Black Panther Fred Hampton, in which he and Mark Clark were killed, with four of the seven other people in the apartment wounded. The way the wind blew. [25], The Flint War Council was a series of meetings of the Weather Underground Organization and associates in Flint, Michigan, that took place 27–31 December 1969. [91] Many leftist organizations showed curiosity in the communiqué, and waited to see if the act would in fact occur. The most well-publicized of these tactics were the "black-bag jobs," referring to searches conducted in the homes of relatives and acquaintances of Weatherman. IPG, 2010, p.264, Stine, Peter, ed. Weather Underground provides weather reports for most major cities across the world on its Web site, as well as local weather reports for newspapers and third-party sites. Although the charge carried a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, Felt was fined $5,000. The indictment charged Felt and the others "did unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly combine, conspire, confederate, and agree together and with each other to injure and oppress citizens of the United States who were relatives and acquaintances of the Weatherman fugitives, in the free exercise and enjoyments of certain rights and privileges secured to them by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America. To me, it was a question of what had to be done to stop the much greater violence that was going on. Jeremy Varon argues that by 1977 the WUO had disbanded. Participation in the Venceremos Brigade, a program which involved U.S. students volunteering to work in the sugar harvest in Cuba, is highlighted as a common factor in the background of the founders of the Weather Underground, with China a secondary influence. Revolutionary violence is the only way. Dohrn, Bernardine. ), 67. In 1993, they recruited Alan Steremberg and initiated a project to bring Internet weather into K–12 classrooms. Six Weathermen were shot by the police and an unknown number injured; 68 rioters were arrested. The police claimed they shot in self-defense, although a controversy arose when the Panthers, other activists and a Chicago newspaper reporter presented visual evidence, as well as the testimony of an FBI ballistics expert, showing that the sleeping Panthers were not resisting arrest and fired only one shot, as opposed to the more than one hundred the police fired into the apartment. [63] Weather aimed to develop roots within the class struggle, targeting white working-class youths. ", The Attorney General in the new Carter administration, Griffin B. 192. The origins of the Weathermen can be traced to the collapse and fragmentation of the Students for a Democratic Society following a split between office holders of SDS, or "National Office", and their supporters and the Progressive Labor Party (PLP). [88][89] True to Dohrn's words, this single event, in the continuing string of public killings of black leaders of any political stripe, was the trigger that pushed a large number of Weatherman and other students who had just attended the last SDS national convention months earlier to go underground and develop its logistical support network nationally. 'Turn the imperialists' war into a civil war', in Lenin's words. '"[6] The protests did not meet Ayers' stated expectations. New York, NY: HarperCollins. [18], The Weather Underground's WunderMap overlays weather data from personal weather stations and official NWS stations on a Mapbox Map base and provides many interactive and dynamically updated weather and environmental layers. SDS soon broke from LID's anti-Communist line in the name of supporting a participatory democracy in which all points of view would be welcome, and SDS and LID would soon mutually sever their ties over the matter of SDS refusing to exclude Communists. The most important task for us toward making the revolution, and the work our collectives should engage in, is the creation of a mass revolutionary movement, without which a clandestine revolutionary party will be impossible. "[142] Dan Berger asserts in Outlaws in America that the group "purposefully and successfully avoided injuring anyone" as an argument that their actions were not terrorism. [30], The thesis of Weatherman theory, as expounded in its founding document, You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows, was that "the main struggle going on in the world today is between U.S. imperialism and the national liberation struggles against it",[31] based on Lenin's theory of imperialism, first expounded in 1916 in Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. The meeting, dubbed the "War Council" by the 300 people who attended, adopted Jacobs' call for violent revolution. The following is a list of some of the members of Weatherman. [81], In the preceding hours, Molotov cocktails had been thrown at the second floor of Columbia University's International Law Library at 434 W. 116th Street and at a police car parked across the street from the Charles Street police station in the West Village in Manhattan, and at Army and Navy recruiting booths on Nostrand Avenue on the eastern fringe of the Brooklyn College campus in Brooklyn, causing no or minimal damage in incidents of unknown relation to that at Judge Murtagh's home. 6105, H.R. Washington: U.S. G.P.O.. p.55. Federal Bureau of Investigation. "[6] After the Greenwich Village explosion, in a review of the documentary film The Weather Underground (2002), a Guardian journalist restated the film's contention that no one was killed by WUO bombs.[85]. [19] On November 15, 2017, users were notified by email that their worldwide, user-provided weather cameras would cease to be available on December 15, 2017. 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