And I don’t think our phone had ever rung in the, I think it was like a year that we lived in this apartment. Zayd Ayers Dohrn, narrating: The cops also find addresses, IDs, phone numbers.Įleanor Stein: So this around 6:00, I think in the evening, our phone rang. These items and intelligence information are leading police to believe there has been a merger of the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army. –where they found an arsenal of weapons, bomb-making materials, a police hit-list, and radical literature. ABC News has learned that there have now been a total of seven raids in the New York City area.
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Police and FBI efforts to crack the Weather Underground intensified today following the arrest of radical activist Katherine Boudin and three others in the wake of a bloody Brinks robbery.
Sundiata is killed and Sekou is taken into custody. There’s a chase, a shootout in a nearby construction yard. Three days later, the BLA members, Mitayari Shabaka Sundiata and Sekou Odinga are in a car in Queens being followed by police. Some are reportedly beaten by police or hurt in a car crash during the frantic scramble to get away. Kathy Boudin, David Gilbert, Judy Clark, and Solomon Bouines are all arrested the day of the robbery. Zayd Ayers Dohrn, narrating: In the early 1980s, following the disaster of the Brinks robbery, the dominoes finally start to fall for the last remaining members of the Radical Undergrounds. And one of the things that happened was that Chesa was at the baby sitter. Kathy Boudin: It really wasn’t until we got taken to the police station, uh, that I began to realize what had happened. Echoes of the violent, radical underground of the 1960s rolled over the New York suburb of Nanuet today in the botched ambush of an armored car that left one guard and two policemen dead. Zayd Ayers Dohrn, narrating: Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert are arrested, leaving their son, Chesa, behind. And lawmen once called her the soul of the Black Liberation Army. She made her break this afternoon from the prison in Clinton, New Jersey. And we said how can we even think about bringing a child into this world? I mean, the world is a terrible place. Zayd Ayers Dohrn, narrating: Assata Shakur gives birth to her daughter, Kakuya in prison. Rebellion is inevitable and continuous, and I remain committed to the struggle ahead. Today, Bernardine Dohrn turned herself in and pleaded not guilty to state charges ranging from mob action to aggravated battery. Zayd Ayers Dohrn, narrating: My parents finally emerged from the underground. Zayd Ayers Dohrn: Did you think about what would happen if you were caught?īill Ayers: Yeah, I thought my life would end.īill Ayers: Because it mattered. Zayd Ayers Dohrn, narrating: Previously on Mother Country Radicals: Patrisse Cullors & asha bandel, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (2018).Chesa Boudin, Letters from Young Activists: Today’s Rebels Speak Out (2005).Out of the shards of the radical movements of the 1970s, a new generation fights to build a better future. Zayd connects to other children of the underground.
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