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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 January 2025. American professor and activist For the American baseball pitcher, see Bill Ayers (baseball). For the Catholic priest, radio host, and hunger activist, see Bill Ayres. Bill Ayers Ayers in 2012 Born William Charles Ayers (1944-12-26) December 26, 1944 (age 80) Glen Ellyn, Illinois, U.S ...
According to Bill Ayers, writing in 2001, by the late 1970s, the Weatherman group had further split into two factions—the May 19th Communist Organization and the Prairie Fire Collective—with Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers in the latter. The Prairie Fire Collective favored coming out of hiding and establishing an above-ground revolutionary ...
Weatherman, also known as Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization, was an American radical left wing militant organization that carried out a series of domestic terrorism activities from 1969 through the 1970s which included bombings, jailbreaks, and riots. Following is a list of the organization's various activities and ...
Much of the work of Prairie Fire focused on international solidarity. [5] In 1976, the Committee joined the "July 4th Coalition" which was a larger solidarity alliance of a variety of leftist organizations including the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Puerto Rican Solidarity Committee as part of an effort of organizing counterdemonstrations for the official U.S. governmental ...
In 1982, FBI director William H. Webster reported to the Senate Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism that the Justice Department was relaxing rules that allowed the FBI to keep surveillance on domestic terrorist groups, inspired by the actions of the May 19th Communist Organization, as well as the Socialist Workers Party, the Progressive ...
The above list includes some people who were connected with Weatherman (the above-ground political grouping that preceded the Weather Underground Organization) but did not go underground to join the WUO.
Heightens public awareness and knowledge of terrorist organizations. Signals to other governments U.S. concern about named organizations. Official designation of a group as a Foreign Terrorist Organization also triggers more robust means of combat under the Authorization for Use of Military Force act enacted in 2001, which is still in force ...
The group specifically focused on HEW, which they called the "major government vehicle of social control of women," comparing it to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. [ 10 ] The women who convened the study distributed a packet entitled: "Six Sisters," which explained their motivations, their wide-ranging reading list, meeting notes and plans for ...