Mother Country Radicals

Chapter 9: Revolutionary Suicide

Former members of the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army carry out one last action together, with deadly consequences that reverberate across generations. 

For more of the story, check out: 

Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography (1987)

Dhoruba bin Wahad, Assata Shakur &amp; Mumia Abu-Jamal, Still Black, Still Strong (1993)

Dan Berger, Outlaws of America: the Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (2005)


 
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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.