Word: weatherman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weathermen have received a permit from the city for an early afternoon march from Chicago's Haymarket Square to Grant Park across from the Hilton Hotel. Weatherman leaders planned the next major action for Saturday becausethe permit makes it possible to rally in large numbers. Police began dispersing any gathering of even small numbers of radicals today and Thursday...
Confronted with the subtle presence of 2600 National Guardsmen stationed in armories throughout the city and doubled police guards at all city high schools, members of the Weatherman faction of SDS spent the day in strategy meetings...
Police today reported no incidents of Weatherman disruptions and no arrests in the city. A total of 92 people have been arrested since Wednesday and more than 50 of them are still in Chicago jails...
Last year the National Office, under Mike Klonsky, began to develop the idea of a Revolutionary Youth Movement. This led to the celebrated "Weatherman Proposal." The Weatherman contingent regards the roles of third world liberation movements and Black struggles in this country as crucial to any real change. The revolution is not around the corner, and if it comes, it will be part of an international movement against U. S. imperialism. Because of the nature of this imperialism workers in this country are better off than anywhere else in the world, too well-off, in fact, to ever...
Since it is very difficult to engage a Weatherman in a theoretical discussion, the only thing clear so far about them is that they have balls. Unfortunately it seems to be of the Guerrilla Theater variety-are they interested in hurting the system, or showing that they want to? Why don't they engage in sabotage? Given their analysis it makes more sense to blow up war factories and labs at night than to get in fights every other...