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The company is based in San Francisco, California and was founded in 1995 as an offshoot of the University of Michigan internet weather database. The name is a reference to the 1960s radical left-wing militant organization the Weather Underground, which also originated at the University of Michigan.
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The Weather Underground was a far-left Marxist militant organization first active in 1969, founded on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan. [2] [page needed] Originally known as the Weathermen, the group was organized as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) national leadership. [3]
Larry David Grathwohl (October 13, 1947 – July 18, 2013) [1] was a United States Army veteran and a Federal Bureau of Investigation informant in the 1970s. He infiltrated the Weather Underground [2] and co-wrote a book about his experiences: Bringing Down America: An FBI informer with the Weathermen (1976).
In 1969, the SDS was heading in a more radical direction and Jaffe became one of the founding members of the Weatherman Organization, yet never became a leader. [11] Jaffe joined the Weather Underground because the group believed in the self-determination of African American people; that they should have a revolution of their own without the total involvement of white middle class people.
The 1981 Brink's robbery was an armed robbery and three related murders committed on October 20, 1981, by several Black Liberation Army members and four former members of the Weather Underground, who were at the time associated with the May 19th Communist Organization.
Investigators interviewed more than 40 women who accused Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander of sex crimes. Alleged victims recounted the attacks in new footage released by prosecutors.
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