Weathermen

Sixties protest splinter

Weathermen was the radical leftist faction of Students for a Democratic Society that emerged in 1969, named after a Bob Dylan lyric: "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." The group advocated violent revolution and conducted bombings of government buildings.

They later renamed themselves the Weather Underground.

The Weathermen went underground after several members died in an accidental explosion. (Lowercase weathermen are people who forecast weather.)

meteorology

forecasters

Those who anticipate outcomes

predictions · anchors · storm chasers · reports · maps · Doppler · barometer · climate · newscasters · Al Roker

radical

Underground

London's transit system

  • 1960sDecade after the fifties
  • SDSChemical hazard paperwork
  • activismDirect effort for reform

bombings · protest · manifesto · revolutionary · leftist · Vietnam · antiwar · fugitives · clandestine · communique

Categories
Opposites
political ideology

WeathermenJohn Birch Society

Right-wing anticommunist advocacy group

Ku Klux Klan · Minutemen · FBI · COINTELPRO · McCarthyites

tactics and methods

Weathermennonviolent resistance

Protest through peaceful means

pacifists · Gandhi · Martin Luther King Jr. · civil disobedience · Quakers

relationship to state

WeathermenFBI

U.S. domestic intelligence agency

COINTELPRO · law enforcement · counterintelligence · J. Edgar Hoover · federal agents

Phrases
Family

weatherman

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Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Rated PG