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A '60s radical's views on the revolution One of those caught up in this maelstrom of the turbulent '60s was the young Cathy Wilkerson. She joined the radical Weather Underground, and helped them turn her father's New York City townhouse into a bomb factory. An explosion there that killed 3 people also made Wilkerson a fugitive, eluding the FBI for 10 yeas. In this 2997 interview Wilkerson talks about her life as a radical, a fugitive, and later a teacher. Get Flying Close To The Sun by Cathy Wilkerson You may also enjoy my interviews with Bobby Seale and William Kunstler For more vintage interviews with celebrities, leaders, and influencers, subscribe to Now I've Heard Everything on Spotify, Apple Podcasts. or wherever you listen to podcasts. Photo by Thomas Good #196-s #radicals #WeatherUnderground

Join Luke Stewart, Cathy Wilkerson, and Alice Lynd for a conversation on Staughton Lynd's struggle against the war in Vietnam. Staughton Lynd was one of the principal intellectuals and activists making the radical argument that the U.S. intervention in Vietnam was illegal under domestic and international law. Lynd was uncompromising in his courageous stance that the U.S. should immediately withdraw from Vietnam, and that soldiers and draftees should refuse to participate in the war based on their individual conscience and the Nuremberg Principles of 1950. Lynd's writings, speeches, and interviews against the war are collected in the recently released My Country is the World. For this launch event that volume's editor, Luke Stewart, will be joined by Cathy Wilkerson and Alice Lynd for a discussion of Staughton and Alice's activism against the war and its lessons for today's anti-imperialist struggles. Get My Country is the World from Haymarket: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1956-my-country-is-the-world Speakers: Luke Stewart is a historian focusing on the antiwar movements during the Vietnam War and the global war on terror. He has co-edited Let Them Stay: U.S. War Resisters in Canada, 2004-2016. He currently lives in Nantes, France. Cathy Wilkerson joined Students for a Democratic Society in 1963, supporting an active civil rights movement in Chester, PA. She continued with SDS after college, becoming editor of New Left Notes and then an organizer with the SDS Washington DC Region. After the assassination of Fred Hampton in 1969 she joined Weatherman, remaining a fugitive until 1980. After getting out of prison, she worked with the Attica civil suit, and then as an educator in NYC public schools for 20 years. See also Flying Close to the Sun, My Life as a Weatherman (2007). Staughton and Alice Lynd (respondant) were married for more than 71 years, having met during Harvard Summer School in the summer of 1950. While Staughton spoke, wrote, and in other ways opposed the Vietnam War, Alice expressed her concerns through collecting and publishing We Won't Go: Personal Accounts of War Objectors (Beacon Press, 1968), and becoming a draft counselor. We Won't Go was the Lynds' first venture into doing oral history or, as Staughton put it, Doing History from the Bottom Up! (Haymarket, 2014). The Lynds partnered in editing Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizers (Haymarket, expanded edition, 2011). See also, Stepping Stones: Memoir of a Life Together (Lexington Books, 2009); Moral Injury and Nonviolent Resistence: Breaking the Cycle of Violence in the Military and Behind Bars (PM Press, 2017); and Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History (Orbis Books, 3d ed. 2018).

The Weathermen decide to bring the horrors of the Vietnam War back to America's doorstep, planning an action that will change the future of the organization, and Zayd's family, forever. For more of the story, check out:  Bill Ayers, Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist (2001) Cathy Wilkerson, Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman (2007) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the 1960's the Weathermen were no doubt the tip of the spear for the political activism that sparked the most violent period of domestic terrorism in history of the United States. According to time magazine, in a single eighteen-month period during 1971 and 1972 the FBI counted an 2,500 bombings on American soil, an avg of 5 per day. You may expect members of the Weather Underground to all be locked up in Guantanamo Bay or at least be on a no-fly list with Nick Fuentes. Bill Ayers, Kathy Boudin, Bernadine Dohrn, and Cathy Wilkerson all entered quickly into academia with little to no Jail time. David Gilbert, thanks to his friends in the democratic party, will be eligible for parole in October 2021. Today we discuss Days of Rage by Bryan Burrough. Get an Odysee account. If you use our invite link (and validate your email address, even a fake one), we'll both get free LBC (which you can use to donate to your favorite creators.): https://odysee.com/$/invite/@cave_time Live every Saturday, pm EST on Odysee/LBRY: https://odysee.com/@cave_time Join the new Discord: https://discord.gg/EpNt9cGHjf Live every Saturday, 2:30 pm EST on Odysee/LBRY: https://odysee.com/@cave_time Join the new Discord: https://discord.gg/EpNt9cGHjf YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSLMTube Twitter: https://twitter.com/cave_time Any podcast platform: search "The Cave of Time" This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is a leftist student organization. It was founded in 1960, but originated in the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, which was founded in 1905. SDS rapidly grew and had more than 300 chapters in 1969, when it fractured into factions. Among other things, members of the organization disagreed about whether it should prioritize feminism, or anti-racist and anti-war activities. SDS still exists today, albeit in a much diminished form.One of the more radical elements of SDS was the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM), which split from SDS in 1969, and renamed itself "Weatherman," based on a line from the Bob Dylan song "Subterranean Homesick Blues": "You don't need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows." Weatherman soon renamed itself the Weather Underground Organization and pursued increasingly radical and violent actions with the stated goal of Communist revolution. Among other things, the Weather Underground staged a riot in Chicago on October 8, 1969, which they dubbed "Days of Rage," broke Timothy Leary out of prison in 1970, and a string of bombings from 1969 through the 1970s, including a bombing of the Pentagon. Unsurprisingly, the FBI considered the Weather Underground a domestic terrorist organization, and the members of the group went underground in order to avoid arrest.By 1975, the Weather Underground was beginning to unravel. The radical documentary filmmaker Emile de Antonio convinced cinematographer Haskell Wexler and editor Mary Lampson to co-direct a documentary film about the Weather Underground. The result was Underground (1976), an 87 minute documentary in which members of the Weather Underground explains their ideas and political philosophy. Notably, Wexler filmed them from behind or through a screen, in order to conceal their identities. The members of the Weather Underground featured in the film include: Bill Ayers, Kathy Boudin, Bernardine Dohrn, Jeff Jones, and Cathy Wilkerson. Notably, De Antonio was relatively critical of the organization and its tactics.When the film was finished, the FBI tried to subpoena all of the material, but after considerable litigation, the subpoena was quashed, primarily on First Amendment grounds.Later in 1976, Folkways Records released the "soundtrack" of Underground as a 2xLP set. Here is the track list:A1Statement By The UndergroundA2Violence Is Necessary - H. Rap Brown, Malcolm X, M. L. King Jr., F. CastroA3The Viet War - Ho Chi Minh, N.T.Dinh, J. FordA4SDS, Chicago 1969, Days Of RageB1Attitudes Of The UndergroundB2Self CriticismB3Puerto Rico - "Mongo Affair" (Miguel Algarin)B4Making The FilmB5We Are Professional RevolutionariesB6The West 11th Street ExplosionC1Capitol Bombing - Returning MedalsC2Fear And CommitmentC3Class Origin And Class StanceC4The Publication Of The Praire FireD1Make Up Of Capitalistic Power & The New RevolutionD2The Prison Movement And AtticaD3It Is The People Who Make The ChangeD4We Are A Small OrganizationD5Interview At A L.A. Unemployment CenterD6Why We Are Communists & Speak Collectively See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The culture wars of the Boomer generation still shape our politics today. In this episode we look at those culture wars from another vantage point. Instead of focusing on the debates themselves, we ask the question: How do people move from radical politics to political violence? On June 7, 1970 the group of young radical leftists known as the Weathermen, accidentally detonated bombs in a Greenwich Village townhouse. Their goal was to bomb an officers' event at the Army Base Fort Dix in New Jersey to protest the Vietnam war, but instead the bombs exploded in the basement and killed three of the five activists. Two fled. One was Cathy Wilkerson.   WNYC producer Paige Cowett talks to Wilkerson 47 years later about what caused her to believe that bombing soldiers was justified. “The sad thing is I don't think we did think about it very much," said Wilkerson. “You think about the political impact. I think that's the way it is with warfare. You don't think about the life of the people that you're hurting or killing.” Cowett also speaks with historian Michael Kazin, a radical leftist who did not resort to violent tactics, as well as Marc Sageman, a forensic psychiatrist and terrorism expert, who discusses the psychology of political radicalization.  The shell of a Greenwich Village townhouse stands in the glare of emergency lights shortly after an explosion caused by persons making bombs in the basement, March 6, 1970, in New York. (Jerry Mosey/Associated Press) Episode Contributors: Kai Wright Paige Cowett Karen Frillmann Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts.

In March 1970, three white middle-class revolutionaries from the Weatherman movement accidentally killed themselves at their New York safehouse. They died when the pipe bombs they were planning to use at a military base accidentally went off in the basement. Witness speaks to Cathy Wilkerson, one of the survivors of the blast.

A conversation about the 1960s with Cathy Wilkerson, former member of Students for a Democratic Society and Weatherman, whose new book is Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman.