Weathermen
Today in class we learned about social movements. After our teacher showed us a documentary of a social movement during the Vietnam War. Specifically on the Weathermen. They would use violence in the U.S. to protest the war so people could not ignore the war. They used slogans for the protest like "Bring the War Home"
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Weatherman, known colloquially as the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization, was a U.S. Radical Left organization consisting of splintered-off members and leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society. The group referred to itself as a "revolutionary organization of communist women and men." Their stated purpose was to carry out a series of militant actions to achieve the revolutionary overthrow of the Government of the United States (and of capitalism as a whole). Weatherman imploded shortly after the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975, which saw the general demise of the New Left, of which Weatherman had been a part.
Originally, the Weathermen were part of the Revolutionary Youth Movement within the Students for a Democratic Society. When they split - first from the RYM's Maoists and then from SDS itself - they distinguished themselves from other self-proclaimed revolutionary groups by claiming that there was no time to build a vanguard party and that revolutionary war against the United States and the capitalist system should begin immediately. To that end, they carried out a campaign of bombings, jailbreaks, and riots.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Weatherman, known colloquially as the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization, was a U.S. Radical Left organization consisting of splintered-off members and leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society. The group referred to itself as a "revolutionary organization of communist women and men." Their stated purpose was to carry out a series of militant actions to achieve the revolutionary overthrow of the Government of the United States (and of capitalism as a whole). Weatherman imploded shortly after the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975, which saw the general demise of the New Left, of which Weatherman had been a part.
Originally, the Weathermen were part of the Revolutionary Youth Movement within the Students for a Democratic Society. When they split - first from the RYM's Maoists and then from SDS itself - they distinguished themselves from other self-proclaimed revolutionary groups by claiming that there was no time to build a vanguard party and that revolutionary war against the United States and the capitalist system should begin immediately. To that end, they carried out a campaign of bombings, jailbreaks, and riots.