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Mother Country Radicals

7 Episodes

30 minutes | Jun 30, 2022
Chapter 6: The Belly of the Beast, Part I
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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
42 minutes | Jun 23, 2022
Chapter 5: New Morning
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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
39 minutes | Jun 16, 2022
Chapter 4: Bring the War Home
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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
53 minutes | Jun 9, 2022
Chapter 1: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
47 minutes | Jun 9, 2022
Chapter 2: Days of Rage
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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
44 minutes | Jun 9, 2022
Chapter 3: I Am A Revolutionary
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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
3 minutes | May 24, 2022
Mother Country Radicals coming June 9
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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