Mother Country Radicals
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.
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May 24, 2022 • 3 mins
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.
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June 9, 2022 • 56 mins
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.
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Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement (1962)
Revolutionary Youth Movement, "The Weatherman Paper" (1969)
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June 9, 2022 • 50 mins
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.
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Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Carlos Marighella, The Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla (1969)
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June 9, 2022 • 47 mins
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.
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Jamal Joseph, Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion and Reinvention (2012)
Stanley Nelson, The Black Panther Party: Vanguard of the Revolution (2016)
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June 16, 2022 • 42 mins
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.
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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)
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June 23, 2022 • 44 mins
The Weathermen go underground, and become famous - and infamous - as counter-culture outlaws.
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Thai Jones, A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground (2004)
Timothy Leary, The Psychedelic Experience (1964)
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June 30, 2022 • 32 mins
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)
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July 7, 2022 • 32 mins
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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July 14, 2022 • 48 mins
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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July 21, 2022 • 49 mins
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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Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography (1987)
Dhoruba bin Wahad, Assata Shakur & 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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July 28, 2022 • 55 mins
Zayd connects to other children of the underground. Out of the shards of the radical movements of the 1970s, a new generation fights to build a better future.
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Chesa Boudin, Letters from Young Activists: Today’s Rebels Speak Out (2005)
Patrisse Cullors & asha bandel, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (2018)
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November 17, 2022 • 39 mins
Zayd sits down with his mom, Bernardine Dohrn, along with Jamie and Karen Zelermyer of Wonder Media Network’s I Was Never There to look back at the process of making a show so deeply rooted in personal family history. Jamie and Zayd interview their mothers to learn how they felt reliving their radical pasts and what it was like to make a podcast with their children. And in a time that feels so similar politically to the turbulent d...
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March 6, 2025 • 11 mins
College holds a mythic place in American culture, but behind the polished campus tours and glossy brochures lies a far more complicated reality. Each episode of Campus Files uncovers a new story that rocked a college or university. Consider this your unofficial campus tour.
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