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Zayd Dohrn was born underground - his parents were radicals and counter-culture outlaws, on the run from the FBI. Now Zayd takes us back to the 1970s, when his parents and their young friends in the Weather Underground Organization declared war on the United States government. They brawled with riot cops on the streets of Chicago, bombed the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, broke comrades out of prison, and teamed up with Black militant groups to rob banks, fight racism - and help build a revolution.

Mother Country Radicals

College holds a mythic place in American culture, but behind the polished campus tours and glossy brochures lies a far more complicated reality. Each episode of Campus Files uncovers a new story that rocked a college or university. Consider this your unofficial campus tour.
 
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Introducing: Campus Files

Zayd Dohrn was born underground - his parents were founders of the Weather Underground organization, and on the run from the FBI. Now Zayd takes us back to the 1970s, when his parents and their young friends brawled with riot cops on the streets of Chicago, bombed the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, and teamed up with Black militant groups to rob banks, fight racism - and help build a revolution.
 
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Introducing Mother Country Radicals

In 1970, a former law student named Bernardine Dohrn declared war on the United States government. Decades later, her son Zayd Ayers Dohrn tells the story of how his mother was radicalized, and became the most wanted woman in America. 

For more of the story, check out: 

Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement (1962)

Revolutionary Youth Movement, "The Weatherman Paper" (1969)

 
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Chapter 1: The Most Dangerous Woman in America

Zayd’s father Bill Ayers joins the Weathermen, and he and his friends teach themselves to be revolutionaries, gearing up to build bombs and brawl with police on the streets of Chicago.

For more of the story, check out: 
Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Carlos Marighella, The Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla (1969)
 
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Chapter 2: Days of Rage

Jamal Joseph is radicalized at 15, and joins the New York Black Panthers. And a deadly attack by Chicago Police puts both Panthers and Weathermen on a path towards violent revolution. 

For more of the story, check out: 
Jamal Joseph, Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion and Reinvention (2012)
Stanley Nelson, The Black Panther Party: Vanguard of the Revolution (2016)
 
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Chapter 3: I Am A Revolutionary

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)
 
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Chapter 4: Bring the War Home

The Weathermen go underground, and become famous - and infamous - as counter-culture outlaws.

For more of the story, check out: 
Thai Jones, A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground (2004)
Timothy Leary, The Psychedelic Experience (1964)
 
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Chapter 5: New Morning

Zayd sits down with his mom, Bernardine Dohrn, along with Jamie and Karen Zelermyer of Wonder Media Network’s I Was Never There to look back at the process of making a show so deeply rooted in personal family history. Jamie and Zayd interview their mothers to learn how they felt reliving their radical pasts and what it was like to make a podcast with their children. And in a time that feels so similar politically to the turbulent decades Karen and Bernardine lived through - how do they find hope?
 
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Introducing Mother Country Radicals

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