Highly recommended movie: The Weather Underground

[BurtWorm]

I am haunted today by this brilliant documentary about the most radical wing of the SDS, the Weathermen. It provides an excellent history of the far left anti-war movement of the 1960s and 1970s, featuring interviews with several of the amazing, deeply intelligent, people who pushed their revolutionary fervor to the bloody limit--Bernadine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd, David Gilbert and more.

You can view it online for free here:

http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/weather_underground.php

Then come back and tell me what you think. If you rent the DVD, be sure to watch the extras, including an extended interview with David Gilbert, who is now doing 75 years for his role in a 1981 Brinks robbery in which two cops and a security guard were killed.

[Crazy Dave]

1. Highly recommended: Weather Underground

http://www.wunderground.com/

[BurtWorm]

3. Talk about corporations coopting the revolution!

:patriot:

[barbtries]

2. ok, i'll watch it right now

thanks

[whistle]

4. So, who are the revolutionaries that will change Amerika today?

...Given that revolutions are made by and come from the young and not the old, perhaps it will come from groups and movements outside America. Young Americans are far too corrupt and way too contented to want anything to change. They simply want their piece of the pie and will take it in the most familiar way possible.

Thanks for posting the video link.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. I came away with the sense...

That we have, for the last 8 years, been through a time with The Weather Underground of The Right.

[dougolat]

6. Thanks, just watched it with my son,

and it brought back the memory of the long slow rise in the frustration level, starting with the '64 election, when the peace candidate got elected-and soon escalated the conflict, thru the massive protests- which peaked with 1/2 to 1 million people demonstrating (to no avail!), to the nightmare of Nixon; the feeling was that a bigger, louder protest was needed, and these people came to the "fight fire with fire" conclusion; understandable, but oh so counterproductive. Have you seen "the Fog of War"?? It shows how McNamara slowly turned against the war, but found Johnson agonized by the "anti-communist, domino theory" scenario, and finally came to a deeper understanding in '85, when he met with one of the Viet-Cong leaders and saw the tragedy from the other side. That movie along with "Why We Fight" make a pretty fair education!
The parallels with what is happening now are worrisome, to say the least!

[BurtWorm]

7. My wife and I were talking about the parallels this evening.

The main difference is the resignation happened much more quickly with Iraq, before the war even began. And millions still took to the streets. A lot of good it did us. We'll always have unpopular wars as long as there is this separation between the rulers and the people--even in this so-called democratic republic.