Weather Underground

Sixties militant group

Weather Underground was a radical left-wing organization in the United States during the late 1960s and 1970s, formed from the Students for a Democratic Society.

The group conducted bombings of government buildings and banks to protest the Vietnam War and racism.

Members called themselves Weathermen, from the Bob Dylan lyric "you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." The name now also refers to a popular weather forecasting website and app, unrelated to the political group.

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political ideology

Weather UndergroundJohn Birch Society

Right-wing anticommunist advocacy group

Ku Klux Klan · Minutemen · COINTELPRO · FBI · neoconservatives

tactics and methods

Weather UndergroundQuakers

Pacifist Protestant denomination

Martin Luther King Jr. · Gandhi · nonviolent resistance · peaceful protest · civil disobedience

relationship to state power

Weather UndergroundFBI

U.S. domestic intelligence agency

CIA · COINTELPRO · law enforcement · Nixon administration · establishment

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