Dissadents In Love

whos Bernadine Dorhn? :)

bernardhine dohrn was a founding member of the weather underground, an activist organization in the late 60s/early 70s. they broke Timothy Leary out of jail and did a lot of really awesome things to undermine a government they felt to be oppressive. they got their name from the bob dylan song subterranean homesick blues. the lyric is "it doesn't take a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows".

now she's a law professor at University of Chicago and an advocate of children's rights. she is married to Bill Ayers who was also a founding member of the weather underground.

thankyou! I was searching for the name all over, I was interested, haha. that is very cool though

I love this song, I wish I knew what he was saying after the Bernadine Dohrn part.

From the 12":

"Nothing is hotter than being intellectually challenged by someone."

Just to add a bit to the history of the weathermen/WU.

At a convention for the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a few more insurgent, direct action-oriented folks split off of the wholly weak and bloated SDS. Although it had strong revolutionary roots, SDS was also anchored down by many deep flaws- the obvious strong ties to university life (and the privilege involved), the banal tactics of protest which robbed the movement of any hopes of results, the lack of desire to embrace feminism (especially in the hierarchies of influence and power in the group) to name a few.

The weathermen had central leadership including Mark Rudd, Bill Ayers, and the legendary Bernadine Dorhn, and countless local chapters all across the country. They comitted actions ranging from handing out flyers to taking over ROTC buildings on college campuses. The 'Days of Rage' in Chicago could be considered a huge victory for the weathermen.

The police cracked down on the weathermen (and affiliated groups like the motherfuckers, the international werewold conspiracy[similar to the motherfuckers], and a crusty gang in seattle of action oriented youth who called themselves the anarchists.) with COINTELPRO tactics used against the American Indian Movement and the Black Panthers. This caused many revolutionaries, Dorhn included, to go 'underground' or live seemingly normal lives all while planning serious acts of sabotage.

Most memorably, (government) buildings went down at the hands of the weather underground's bombs. Although a misfire in a WU townhouse took the lives of a few weatherfolk, the movement was surprisingly effective at tactically striking damaging blows on both a structural and cultural level.

Ugh. I feel like wikipedia or something.