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Mother Country Radicals
Hosted by Crooked Media · EN
Zayd Dohrn was born underground - his parents were radicals and counter-culture outlaws, on the run from the FBI. Now Zayd takes us back to the 1970s, when his parents and their young friends in the Weather Underground Organization declared war on the United States government. They brawled with riot cops on the streets of Chicago, bombed the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, broke comrades out of prison, and teamed up with Black militant groups to rob banks, fight racism - and help build a revolution.
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Bonus Episode: Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young
5d ago00:41:17Tap to summarizeDANGEROUS, DIRTY, VIOLENT AND YOUNG: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground, published by W. W. Norton & Company, comes out on May 19. The audio edition, read by Zayd Ayers Dohrn, will be published by Tantor Media on May 26. Readers can find out more, including links to preorder, at Zayd Ayers Dohrn's website, https://zayddohrn.com/, and from the publisher, https://wwnorton.com/books/dangerous-dirty-violent-and-young
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Introducing Family Lore
4w ago00:02:16Tap to summarizeFamily Lore is a weekly narrative podcast that celebrates and investigates ancestral mystique. Each episode begins with a guest sharing a fascinating family legend, followed by a historical deep-dive to uncover the truth and meaning behind the tale. Available now: https://link.pscrb.fm/f0281/FLFD
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Introducing: Campus Files
Mar 6, 202500:11:58Tap to summarizeCollege holds a mythic place in American culture, but behind the polished campus tours and glossy brochures lies a far more complicated reality. Each episode of Campus Files uncovers a new story that rocked a college or university. Consider this your unofficial campus tour. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Bonus: Radical Family Histories (A Crossover with I Was Never There)
Nov 17, 202200:39:18Tap to summarizeZayd sits down with his mom, Bernardine Dohrn, along with Jamie and Karen Zelermyer of Wonder Media Network’s I Was Never There to look back at the process of making a show so deeply rooted in personal family history. Jamie and Zayd interview their mothers to learn how they felt reliving their radical pasts and what it was like to make a podcast with their children. And in a time that feels so similar politically to the turbulent decades Karen and Bernardine lived through - how do they find hope?
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Chapter 10: Inheritance
Jul 28, 202200:52:09Tap to summarizeZayd connects to other children of the underground. Out of the shards of the radical movements of the 1970s, a new generation fights to build a better future.For more of the story, check out: Chesa Boudin, Letters from Young Activists: Today’s Rebels Speak Out (2005) Patrisse Cullors & asha bandel, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (2018)
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Chapter 9: Revolutionary Suicide
Jul 21, 202200:45:15Tap to summarizeFormer members of the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army carry out one last action together, with deadly consequences that reverberate across generations. For more of the story, check out: Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography (1987) Dhoruba bin Wahad, Assata Shakur & Mumia Abu-Jamal, Still Black, Still Strong (1993) Dan Berger, Outlaws of America: the Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (2005)
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Chapter 8: Hard Times
Jul 14, 202200:44:47Tap to summarizeThe end of the Vietnam War means the end of the Weather Underground. Zayd’s parents and their radical comrades, still on the run from the FBI, plan a different kind of future. For more of the story, check out: Emile de Antonio, Underground (1976)Mona Rocha, The Weatherwomen: Militant Feminists of the Weather Underground (2020)
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Chapter 7: The Belly of the Beast, Part II
Jul 7, 202200:28:43Tap to summarizeThe Weather Underground Organization and the Black Liberation Army go to war with the United States government.For more of the story, check out: The BLA, Black Liberation Army Papers (1963-1998)Sekou Odinga, Dhoruba Bin Wahad & Jamal Joseph, Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st Century Revolutions (2017)
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Chapter 6: The Belly of the Beast, Part I
Jun 30, 202200:29:13Tap to summarizeThe FBI targets the Weather Underground, and a split in the Black Panther Party gives rise to a new, more militant organization - the Black Liberation Army. For more of the story, check out: The Weather Underground, Prairie Fire: The Politics Of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism (1974) Federal Bureau of Investigation, The Declassified FBI Files on the Weather Underground Organization (2010)
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Chapter 5: New Morning
Jun 23, 202200:40:45Tap to summarizeThe Weathermen go underground, and become famous - and infamous - as counter-culture outlaws.For more of the story, check out: Thai Jones, A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground (2004)Timothy Leary, The Psychedelic Experience (1964)
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