x The group later changed its name from the Weathermen to the Weather Underground at the behest of members who found the original name sexist. * “Weather Underground,” Britannica, accessed July 8, 2022. SDS had collapsed earlier that year and the Weathermen advocated transforming the remnants into an underground guerilla warfare group that would target U.S. x The Weathermen, as the group was originally known, formally emerged in December 1969 after a meeting of SDS’s so-called “war council” to discuss the need for further education on the use of firearms and bombs. * “Weather Underground Bombings,” FBI, accessed July 6, 2022. x This paper became a founding document of the Weather Underground. Wakin, “Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded,” New York Times, August 24, 2003, Brad Dress, “What was the Weather Underground?,” Hill, May 2, 2022. x The paper’s title-and the Weather Underground’s name-referenced a lyric from the Bob Dylan song “Subterranean Homesick Blues”: “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” * Daniel J. * “Weather Underground (Weatherman/The Weathermen),” Influence Watch, accessed July 8, 2022, “Weather Underground,” Britannica, accessed July 8, 2022.
The paper called for a white revolutionary movement to support black liberation, which the faction called central to SDS’s anti-imperialist fight. At the June 1969 SDS convention, the Third World Marxists published their position paper, “You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows,” in the SDS newspaper, New Left Notes. Bernardine Dohrn, James Mellen, and Mark Rudd belonged to the Third World Marxists faction of SDS and formed what became known as SDS’s “action faction,” advocating street fighting to weaken the United States. The Weather Underground originated as a faction of the antiwar group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Wakin, “Quieter Lives for 60’s Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded,” New York Times, August 24, 2003, “Weather Underground Bombings,” FBI, accessed July 6, 2022. The Weather Underground was responsible for multiple bombings in the 1970s targeting police, military, government offices, and other symbols of authority. military power, authoritarianism, and racism. Emerging from opposition to the Vietnam War, the Weather Underground adhered to a communist and anti-war ideology, targeting what it saw as symbols of U.S. The Weather Underground was a radical, militant organization founded in 1969 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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