[Hamp-law] THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND screening on March 6th

[Flavio Risech]

Reflections on Violence and Social Justice:

Announcing a screening of the Academy Award nominee

THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND
presented by director Sam Green

7:30 pm Saturday March 6 MLH


"Hello, I'm going to read a declaration of a state of war...within 
the next 14 days we will attack a symbol or institution of American 
injustice." ~ Bernardine Dohrn

Thirty years ago, with those words, a group of young American 
radicals announced their intention to overthrow the U.S. government. 
In THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, former Underground members, including 
Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd, David Gilbert and Brian 
Flanagan, speak publicly about the idealistic passion that drove them 
to "bring the war home" and the trajectory that placed them on the 
FBI's most wanted list.

Fueled by outrage over racism and the Vietnam War, the Weather 
Underground waged a low-level war against the U.S. government through 
much of the 1970s--bombing targets across the country that they 
considered emblematic of the real violence that the U.S. was wreaking 
throughout the world. Ultimately, the group's carefully organized 
clandestine network managed to successfully evade one of the largest 
manhunts in FBI history, yet the group's members would reemerge to 
life in a country that was dramatically different than the one they 
had hoped their efforts would inspire. Extensive archival material, 
including, photographs, film footage and FBI documents are interwoven 
with modern-day interviews to trace the group's path, from its 
pitched battles with police on Chicago's streets, to its bombing of 
the U.S. Capitol, to its successful endeavor breaking acid-guru 
Timothy Leary out of prison. Sam Green and Bill Siegel's film 
explores the Weathermen in the context of other social movements of 
the time and features interviews with former members of the Students 
for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Black Panthers. It also 
examines the U.S. government's suppression of dissent in the 1960s 
and 1970s.

Looking back at their years underground, the former members paint a 
compelling portrait of troubled times, revolutionary times, and the 
forces that drove their resistance.

"...a fascinating window into American political history... one of 
the most thought-provoking documentaries of recent times." --Desson 
Howe, WASHINGTON POST

"...a terrific movie, energetic and articulate. It's the don't-miss 
documentary of the season."
--David Sterritt, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR


http://www.upstatefilms.org/weather/


This event brought to you by Student Action Against Racism, Theater 
Board, the Radical Cheerleaders, Enfield D.A.L., the Law Program, and 
the Photo, Film and Video Program.
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