Mother Country Radicals is a most interesting podcast about the history of the Weather Underground and how it was, at least in the early days, entwined with the Black Panthers.
It's a personal story that clearly illustrates the dangers of fanaticism even when it is submerged beneath a weird veneer of a pseudo-normal family life on the run, given that it is authored and narrated by playwright Zayd Dohrn who is the son of William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, two of the WU's founders.
Interestingly, because Ayers was a casual acquaintance of a certain Illinois Senator in Chicago many years after his WU days this made it possible for Sarah Palin to start bleating about how Barack Obama was 'palling around with terrorists' during the 2008 presidential election campaign.
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