Word: weatherman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Immediately following the incident last Thursday, Harvard SDS disavowed any connection with the disrupters, indicating that the raiders were part of the dissident SDS Weatherman faction...
...Chicago action has also been called the Chicago massacre. Members of the National Action Gang (nominally led by Columbia's Mark Rudd, now a Weatherman) have been working out on weekends, running through calisthenies and self-defense exercises. The official name for the program is "Days of Rage...
Bill Ayers, a Weatherman organizer from Michigan, said during the summer that perhaps 20,000 people were expected in Chicago; 15,000 actually demonstrating and 5000 hard-core SDS. (To Ayers SDS means RYM, the group that walked out. And in the midwest this is fairly accurate; PL is strong only on the coasts.) As tentatively planned, there will be eight "centers" where people will stay, perhaps church basements or student cooperatives around the University of Chicago area. People from each center will act together and form into cadres of 40 each that will fight police together-that...
...should be stressed that these plans are only probable. Weatherman strategy is of the moment. Five Days of Rage. As one Harvard junior, whose polities fall into what the Village Voice calls "that crevice between liberalism and revolution," said, "PL could never plan "Days of Rage." They just don't think like that. But that's how the Weathermen live...
...Weatherman faction is opposed to the main body of Harvard SDS, which adheres to the Worker-Student Alliance. Elizabeth Harvey '71, a member of the executive committee of Harvard SDS, last night condemned the action and said it bad not been authorized by any SDS meeting...