Mother Country Radicals - Chapter 8: Hard Times

Chapter 8: Hard Times

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07/14/22 • 48 min

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Mother Country Radicals

The end of the Vietnam War means the end of the Weather Underground. Zayd’s parents and their radical comrades, still on the run from the FBI, plan a different kind of future.

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Emile de Antonio, Underground (1976)

Mona Rocha, The Weatherwomen: Militant Feminists of the Weather Underground (2020)

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The end of the Vietnam War means the end of the Weather Underground. Zayd’s parents and their radical comrades, still on the run from the FBI, plan a different kind of future.

For more of the story, check out:

Emile de Antonio, Underground (1976)

Mona Rocha, The Weatherwomen: Militant Feminists of the Weather Underground (2020)

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Previous Episode

Chapter 7: The Belly of the Beast, Part II

The Weather Underground Organization and the Black Liberation Army go to war with the United States government.

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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)

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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.

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