Mother Country Radicals

Chapter 6: The Belly of the Beast, Part I

The FBI targets the Weather Underground, and a split in the Black Panther Party gives rise to a new, more militant organization - the Black Liberation Army. 

For more of the story, check out: 

The Weather Underground, Prairie Fire: The Politics Of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism (1974)

Federal Bureau of Investigation, The Declassified FBI Files on the Weather Underground Organization (2010)


 
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Zayd Dohrn was born underground - his parents were radicals and counter-culture outlaws, on the run from the FBI. Now Zayd takes us back to the 1970s, when his parents and their young friends in the Weather Underground Organization declared war on the United States government. They brawled with riot cops on the streets of Chicago, bombed the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, broke comrades out of prison, and teamed up with Black militant groups to rob banks, fight racism - and help build a revolution.