Rochester Premier of the Weather Underground

The Movie Opens in Rochester on Friday November 14th, Faciliated Discussion of the Film will take place immediately following the afternoon showing on Sunday, November 16th. Specific Times can be found by Calling the Little Theater.

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The Rochester Premier of……

The Weather Underground

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OPENS AT THE LITTLE THEATER NOVEMBER 14TH FOR A ONE-WEEK RUN

Nominated, Grand Jury Prize (Documentary), 2003 Sundance Film Festival

Synopsis from the InterActivist Info Exchange:

"Hello, I'm going to read a declaration of a state of war...within the next 14 days we will attack a symbol or institution of American injustice." --Bernardine Dohrn

Thirty years ago, with those words, a group of young American radicals announced their intention to overthrow the U.S. government. In THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, former Underground members, including Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd, David Gilbert and Brian Flanagan, speak publicly about the idealistic passion that drove them to "bring the war home" and the trajectory that placed them on the FBI’s most wanted list.

Fueled by outrage over racism and the Vietnam War, the Weather Underground waged a low-level war against the U.S. government through much of the '70s--bombing targets across the country that they considered emblematic of the real violence that the U.S. was wreaking throughout the world. Ultimately, the group’s carefully organized clandestine network managed to successfully evade one of the largest manhunts in FBI history, yet the group’s members would re-emerge to life in a country that was dramatically different than the one they had hoped their efforts would inspire.

Extensive archival material, including photographs, film footage and FBI documents are interwoven with modern-day interviews to trace the group’s path, from its pitched battles with police on Chicago’s streets, to its bombing of the U.S. Capitol, to its successful endeavor breaking acid-guru Timothy Leary out of prison. The film explores the Weathermen in the context of other social movements of the time and features interviews with former members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Black Panthers. It also examines the U.S. government’s suppression of dissent in the 1960s and 1970s. Looking back at their years underground, the former members paint a compelling portrait of troubled times, revolutionary times, and the forces that drove their resistance.

This film is riveting-- as a piece of filmmaking, an historical document and as a catalyst for discussion. It raises myriad questions for us as activists and global citizens.