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Rag Radio : Academic/Activist Bernardine Dohrn, Former Leader of Weather Underground
Academic/activist Bernardine Dohrn, former leader of WeatherUnderground, on Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer. Listen to it here: Thorne Dreyer‘s guest on Rag Radio this Friday, October 28, 2011, 2-3 p.m. (Central) on KOOP 91-7-FM in Austin, will be singer/songwriter and … Continue reading
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Tagged Activists, Bernardine Dohrn, Eddy Awards, Leftists, Rag Radio, SDS, Sixties, Thorne Dreyer, Uranium Savages, Weather Underground
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Jonah Raskin : A Rag Blog Interview with Bernardine Dohrn
Bernardine Dohrn. Photo by Thomas Good / Next Left Notes.Never the ‘good girl,’ not then, not now:A Rag Blog interview with Bernardine Dohrn By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / October 20, 2011 Bernardine Dohrn will be Thorne Dreyer‘s … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Bernardine Dohrn, Interview, Jonah Raskin, Radicals, SDS, Sixties, Weather Underground
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THEATER / Jonah Raskin : The ‘Reborning’ of Zayd Dohrn
Scene from Zayd Dohrn’s Reborning at the San Francisco Playhouse.The Reborning of Zayd Dohrn: A fascinating piece of theater from the son of Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers that speaks to our time now and where we’ve come from as … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Jonah Raskin, Theater, Weather Underground, Zayd Dohrn
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Bernardine Dohrn : The Obsolete and Dangerous Federal Grand Jury
Bernardine Dohrn, with Bill Ayers and five-year-old Zayd, on the steps of the federal courthouse in New York City, 1982. Photo by David Handschuh / AP.The curious, mysterious, obsolete,and dangerous federal grand jury The federal grand jury is a secret, … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Bernardine Dohrn, Criminal Justice, Dissent, FBI, Federal Courts, Grand Jury, New Left, Sixties
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Bill Ayers : I’M SORRY!!! (I Think…)
Bill Ayers’ Sixties history — and his alleged relationship with Barack Obama — hit the top of the news during the 2008 presidential campaign. Image from webcastr.On notoriety, complexity, and contrition:I’M SORRY!!!! (I think…) By Bill Ayers / The Rag … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, New Left, SDS, Sixties, Weather Underground, X 2008 Elections
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Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn : Bringing the War Home, 1970
News photo taken March 6, 1970, of the New York Fire Department responding to an explosion at an upscale Greenwich Village townhouse. Image from Wikipedia.Bringing the war home: 1970-2010 Eventually we came to think that we could make a revolution, … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Educators, New Left, Radicals, SDS, Vietnam, Weather Underground, Weathermen
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Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn : Gaza Freedom Marchers Clubbed by Cairo Cops
Cairo riot police confront Gaza Freedom March. Top photo from AP. Bottom photo by Brandon Delyzer from rabble.ca.Gaza Freedom March:Lively demonstration at the Egyptian Museum By Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn / The Rag Blog / January 1, 2010 Also … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernardine Dohrn, Cairo, Egypt, Gaza, Middle East, Palestine, Peace Movement, Police Brutality, Protest, William Ayers
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Bernardine Dohrn : Gaza Freedom March: Reimagining Change
UPDATE: See ‘Gaza Freedom march converges on Midan Tahrir,’ Below. Above, photo from Palestine Chronicle / Aljazeera. Below, holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, center, and Gaza Freedom March activists in Cairo Tuesday. Photo by Amr Nabil / AP / Christian Science … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernardine Dohrn, Cairo, Egypt, Gaza, Middle East, Palestine, Peace Movement
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Hayden, Dohrn, Joseph : 1960s Radicals Predict Rebirth of Social Activism
1960s Radicals Predict Rebirth of Social Activism By Manny Fernandez | November 7, 2008 See ‘DAVID FENTON: Eye of the Revolution’ with vintage photo of Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver, Below. Nothing is more non-nonconformist than a nearly two-hour panel … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Bernardine Dohrn, LNS, New Left, Photography, SDS, Sixties, Social Activism, The Left, Tom Hayden
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Mr. Ayers’ Neighborbood : Hanging With Bill on Election Day
‘Ayers seemed curiously calm and cheerful about the way he had been made an issue in the campaign.’ By David Remnick / November 4, 2008 Early this morning, the Obama family voted at the Beulah Shoesmith Elementary School, in Hyde … Continue reading
Obama and the ‘Weatherman Connection’ : In Defense of Bill Ayers
William Ayers, left, in 1980 with wife, Bernardine Dohrn. Photo by Knoblock, via Associated Press.‘The Bill Ayers I knew in the late 1960’s was a very thoughtful and serious person.’By David P. Hamilton / The Rag Blog / October 6, … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Bernardine Dohrn, Campaign Tactics, Keating Five, Obama, Obama Smear Campaign, SDS, Sixties, Weather Underground, William Ayers
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ABC, Barack Obama and the Red Herring
Daley to Clinton: Don’t Tar Obama with Ayersby Mike Dorning and Rick Pearson / April 17, 2008 Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, whose father was famously not so sympathetic to anti-war protesters, is coming to the defense of Barack Obama for … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Hillary, Journalism, Media, Obama, Presidential Campaign, SDS
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