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Cross Cultural Solidarity
By Lynn Burnett
As a radical law student in the late 1960s, Bernardine Dohrn helped the National Lawyers Guild organize young lawyers to defend antiwar and racial justice activists. She was swept deeper into the movement at a time when the Black freedom struggle was radicalizing, as it confronted increasing police brutality and the assassinations of its leaders, faced the limitations of the civil rights movement to tackle systemic racism, and as it made stronger connections between imperial wars abroad, globalized economic inequality, and White supremacy.
During this time both SNCC and the BPP called for White racial justice organizers to go into the belly of the beast – into White communities across the U.S. – and organize White communities to support racial justice. When Bernardine became a leader within the most radical wing of the Students For A Democratic Society – a wing that morphed into the Weathermen – she played a key role in translating those ideas to the White student movement.
A turning point for Bernardine and the Weathermen came in the winter of 1969, when photos of the Mỹ Lai massacre were released to the public during the same month that their comrade Fred Hampton was assassinated by police while he slept in his bed. The Weath
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For more see: Weather Underground, Students for a Democratic Society, and Bill Ayers
Bernardine Dohrn was an original co-founder and arguably the top leader of the Weather Underground, a radical-left violent extremist group that was active from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s. Prior to this she was a member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a left-wing-turned-revolutionary Communist organization that split apart shortly after founding of Weatherman, the faction that would later evolve into the Weather Underground. Former Weathermen, law enforcement sources and historians of Weatherman have accused Dohrn of both encouraging and participating in attempts by the terrorist organization to kill police and U.S. military personnel. While no murders have been conclusively tied to the Weathermen, police officers were injured in at least two bombings.
Dohrn was one of two Weather leaders to become one the FBI’s ten “Most Wanted” fugitives. The FBI was never able to catch and secure prosecution of any major Weatherman participants, including Dohrn. Unconstitutional investigation methods used by the Bureau compromised the ability of federal law enforcement to prosecute the Weathermen, leading the U.S. Department of Justice to drop the most serious
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20 October 2011
Jonah Raskin
Bernardine Dohrn. Photo do without Thomas Bright / Effort Left Notes.
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