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The film, directed by [[Sam Green (filmmaker)|Sam Green]] and Bill Siegel won the audience choice award at the [[Chicago Underground Film Festival]] and went on to be nominated for an [[Academy Award]] in 2004.<ref name="NY Times">{{cite web |url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/279004/The-Weather-Underground/details |title=NY Times: The Weather Underground |accessdate=2008-11-23|work=NY Times}}</ref> |
The film, directed by [[Sam Green (filmmaker)|Sam Green]] and Bill Siegel won the audience choice award at the [[Chicago Underground Film Festival]] and went on to be nominated for an [[Academy Award]] in 2004.<ref name="NY Times">{{cite web |url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/279004/The-Weather-Underground/details |title=NY Times: The Weather Underground |accessdate=2008-11-23|work=NY Times}}</ref> |
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*"We felt that doing nothing in a period of repressive violence is itself a form of violence. That's really the part that I think is the hardest for people to understand. If you sit in your house, live your white life and go to your white job, and allow the country that you live in to murder people and to commit genocide, and you sit there and you don't do anything about it, that's violence." [[Naomi Jaffe]] |
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*"Once Richard Nixon was elected president and inaugurated in January 1969, we were targeted, bam, bam, bam, by a very sophisticated, advanced, counterintelligence program; At the same time, by very crude and violent police." [[Kathleen Neal Cleaver]], [[Black Panther Party]] |
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*"This pattern of harassment is going on against the Black Panther Party across the country. On Friday, the Watts office of the Black Panther Party was bombed and demolished. Last week the Des Moines office was bombed. They can't stop anything we're doing as a legitimate political organization so they come in and shoot us and shoot tear gas at us like they've lost they minds." [[Kathleen Neal Cleaver]] Black Panther Party |
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*"There's no way to be committed to non-violence in the most violent society that history has ever created. I'm not committed to non-violence in any way." [[Bernardine Dohrn]] |
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*"Freaks are revolutionaries and revolutionaries are freaks." [[Bernardine Dohrn]] |
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*"I cherished my hate as a badge of moral superiority." [[Mark Rudd]] |
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*"I think that part of the Weatherman phenomenon that was right was our understanding of what the position of the United States is in the world. It was this knowledge that we just couldn't handle; it was too big. We didn't know what to do. In a way I still don't know what to do with this knowledge. I don't know what needs to be done now, and it's still eating away at me just as it did 30 years ago." [[Mark Rudd]] |
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==See also== |
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Revision as of 08:04, 15 February 2013
| The Weather Underground | |
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 U.S. DVD cover | |
| Directed by | Sam Green, Bill Siegel |
| Starring | Bill Ayers Bernadine Dohrn Mark Rudd Brian Flanagan Naomi Jaffe Laura Whitehorn David Gilbert Kathleen Neal Cleaver Todd Gitlin |
Running time | 95 minutes |
| Sprache | Englisch |
The Weather Underground is a 2002 documentary film based on the rise and fall of the American radical organization The Weathermen. Using much archive footage from the time as well as interviews with the Weathermen today, the film constructs a linear narrative of the militant organization.
The film, directed by Sam Green and Bill Siegel won the audience choice award at the Chicago Underground Film Festival and went on to be nominated for an Academy Award in 2004.[1]
See also
References
- ^ "NY Times: The Weather Underground". NY Times. Retrieved 2008-11-23.