“Dig it! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim’s stomach! Wild!” – Bernardine Dohrn on the Manson murders at the home of actress Sharon Tate
July, 1969: Bernardine Dohrn in Cuba to meet with representatives of the Cuban and North Vietnamese governments
October, 1969: Haymarket Police Statue in Chicago is bombed
October, 1969: “Days of Rage” riots in Chicago
December, 1969: Chicago Police cars bombed in precinct parking lot
December, 1969: Weatherman “War Council” to change into an underground organization that will commit strategic acts of sabotage against the government
February, 1970: Golden Gate Branch of San Francisco Police Department bombed, one officer killed
March, 1970: Bill Ayers and other Weather Underground members reported in Detroit to bomb a police facility; 34 sticks of dynamite are found in the 13th Police District of Detroit
March, 1970: Bomb factory and weapons cache uncovered by Chicago Police
May, 1970: The National Guard Association building in Washington, D.C. is bombed
May, 1970: Weather Underground “Declaration of a State of War” communique released under Bernardine Dohrn’s name
June, 1970: Weather Underground claims credit for bombing of San Francisco Hall of Justice; no explosion occurred/workmen located unexploded bomb
June, 1970: New York City Police headquarters bombed
July, 1970: US Army base at The Presidio in San Francisco bombed on the 11th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution
September, 1970: Weather Underground assists Timothy Leary escape from California Men’s Colony prison
October, 1970: Marin County Courthouse bombed
October, 1970: Queens, New York traffic-court building bombed
October, 1970: Harvard Center for International Affairs is bombed
March, 1971: United States Capitol is bombed
August, 1971: Office of California Prisons bombed
September, 1971: New York Department of Corrections, Albany, is bombed
October, 1971: Office of William Bundy, MIT Research Center bombed
May, 1972: The Pentagon bombed “in retaliation for the US bombing raid in Hanoi”
May, 1973: New York’s 103rd Precinct bombed
September, 1973: ITT headquarters in New York and Rome bombed
March, 1974: Department of Health, Education & Welfare, San Francisco bombed
May, 1974: Office of the California Attorney General bombed
June, 1974: Gulf Oil’s Pittsburgh headquarters bombed
September, 1974: Offices of Anaconda Corporation bombed
January, 1975: US State Department bombed
June, 1975: New York’s, Banco de Ponce bombed
September, 1975: Office of the Kennecott Corporation bombed
October, 1981: $1 million Brinks armored car heist by Weather Underground and Black Liberation Army, Nanuet Mall, Nyack, NY; two police officers and one Brinks guard killed
A faction of the former Weather Underground continues today as the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, based in Chicago. Its official website reads, in part, as follows:
“We oppose oppression in all its forms including racism, sexism, homophobia, classism and imperialism. We demand liberation and justice for all peoples. We recognize that we live in a capitalist system that favors a select few and oppresses the majority.”
These are Obama’s friends and mentors. Any questions?
