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  • Introducing Mother Country Radicals

    Introducing Mother Country Radicals
    May 24 2022
    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. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    3 min
  • Chapter 2: Days of Rage

    Chapter 2: Days of Rage
    Jun 9 2022
    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) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    51 min
  • Chapter 3: I Am A Revolutionary

    Chapter 3: I Am A Revolutionary
    Jun 9 2022
    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) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    48 min
  • Chapter 1: The Most Dangerous Woman in America

    Chapter 1: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
    Jun 9 2022
    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) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    56 min
  • Chapter 4: Bring the War Home

    Chapter 4: Bring the War Home
    Jun 16 2022
    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) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    42 min
  • Chapter 5: New Morning

    Chapter 5: New Morning
    Jun 23 2022
    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) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    45 min
  • Chapter 6: The Belly of the Beast, Part I

    Chapter 6: The Belly of the Beast, Part I
    Jun 30 2022
    The FBI targets the Weather Underground, and a split in the Black Panther Party gives rise to a new, more militant organization - the Black Liberation Army. For more of the story, check out: The Weather Underground, Prairie Fire: The Politics Of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism (1974) Federal Bureau of Investigation, The Declassified FBI Files on the Weather Underground Organization (2010) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    33 min
  • Chapter 7: The Belly of the Beast, Part II

    Chapter 7: The Belly of the Beast, Part II
    Jul 7 2022
    The Weather Underground Organization and the Black Liberation Army go to war with the United States government. For more of the story, check out: The BLA, Black Liberation Army Papers (1963-1998) Sekou Odinga, Dhoruba Bin Wahad & Jamal Joseph, Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st Century Revolutions (2017) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    32 min