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  Bernardine Dohrn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bernardine Dohrn is a former leader of the leftist organization known as the Weathermen.
Dohrn later married former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers, whose long-time girlfriend Diana Oughton died in the Greenwich Village accident.
From 1984 to 1988, Dohrn was an associate at the law firm Sidley Austin.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernardine_Dohrn   (677 words)

  
 School Discipline Expert Bernadine Dohrn to Speak on "Zero Tolerance" Policies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Dohrn’s talk will focus on how parents and educators can advocate for alternative, research-based discipline strategies that have been shown to be more effective in stemming violence and creating a suitable learning environment.
Dohrn is a Clinical Associate Professor of Law and the Director and Founder of the Children and Family Justice Center in Chicago, Il.
Dohrn is the fourth lecturer in the 2003-4 School Discipline Policies and their Criminal Justice Consequences forum series at the Open Society Institute-Baltimore.
www.soros.org /initiatives/baltimore/news/dohrn_20040512   (709 words)

  
 Jennifer Dispatch
Dohrn didn't start out as a radical, but her work with the movement eventually led her down that path.
Dohrn believes that "lawyers should be on the side of justice, not just technicians but active participants." Dohrn used her education to help rally her peers towards the movement, but like many others, she felt more had to be done.
Dohrn remembers, "We were completely self-restrained as a movement compared to other world movements." Nonetheless, all of this activity brought them to the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
www.ustrek.org /odyssey/semester2/040401/040401jendohrn.html   (1248 words)

  
 Instapun***K.com Archives:
Dohrn is a mild-mannered heroine of the antiwar movement who is now contributing her time-honored wisdom to the current situation in Iraq.
A decade of disaster was revisited Thursday night as the infamous anti-war activist Bernardine Dohrn spoke on behalf of the atrocities that she witnessed during the Vietnam War.
Although Dohrn holds a plethora of positions to her name, including multiple degrees from the University of Chicago, she is most notable for her work as a radical anti-war activist.
www.instapunk.com /archives/InstaPunkArchiveV2.php3?a=83   (1356 words)

  
 Wisconsin State Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Dohrn and Ayers passed along lessons from their more than 40 years of political activism to a cross-generational audience of roughly 40 people at the theater's Stage Door.
Dohrn and Ayers are perhaps best known for their involvement with the radical group Weather Underground.
Although Dohrn cautioned against the use of such tactics today, she argued the group's civil disobedience was justifiable at the time and that forceful tactics are still needed today.
www.madison.com /wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=103810   (518 words)

  
 Preserve academic freedom - Minnesota Daily   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Dohrn has been at Northwestern for ten years, during which time faculty, students and administrators have been satisfied with her work.
Dohrn no longer advocates breaking the law or committing violent acts, has made significant progress at the school and is fully supported by her colleagues.
Dohrn was involved in anti-American activities in the 1970s, but that was decades ago and she has repented her former ideals.
www.mndaily.com /articles/2001/11/09/28833   (496 words)

  
 Bernardine Dohrn, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Faculty Profiles, Faculty & Research, School of Law, Northwestern University
Bernardine Dohrn, Clinical Associate Professor of Law and Director and founder of the Children and Family Justice Center, is a child advocate who teaches, lectures and writes about children's law and justice, the needs and rights of children and youth, and international human rights.
Dohrn is a founding chair and member of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation's Children's Legal Rights Committee and was appointed to the ABA advisory committee to the Immigration Pro Bono Development and Bar Activation Project.
Dohrn teaches Children and Human Rights, Children in Conflict with the Law, and the comparative law of South Africa, Cuba and Rwanda, and with her law students travels to conduct field research about children's human rights and contemporary legal issues.
www.law.northwestern.edu /faculty/clinic/dohrn/dohrn.html   (328 words)

  
 JS Online:
Dohrn, now 61, and her fellow traveler and husband, Bill Ayers, 58, looked like any other casually fashionable couple here to ski: He had a cell-phone headset planted in his ear, she drank a Starbucks coffee.
Afterward, said Dohrn, the project "I threw myself into most wholeheartedly was raising my kids." The couple have two sons of their own and are raising a third, the son of radical Kathy Boudin, who is in jail for the robbery of a Brinks truck and the shooting death of a security guard.
Dohrn runs a juvenile justice program at Northwestern University; Ayers is a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/movies/jan03/112602.asp   (972 words)

  
 Northwestern Chronicle: Dohrn must go, say NU law school alums
Dohrn, counting off her achievements in the Center and praising her "energy and passion." But O'Shea challenged the notion of a former fugitive teaching law and speculated that her father-in-law's former position on the Board of Trustees may have played a role in her hiring.
Dohrn is a fit for a lousy law school--let alone a reputable one--is a taco short of a combo platter.
Dohrn is thrown out into the street where she belongs.
www.chron.org /tools/viewart.php?artid=193   (1445 words)

  
 Northwestern Alumni Withhold Money
She served seven months in prison for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury investigating a 1981 armored truck robbery in Nyack, N.Y., in which two police officers were killed.
Dohrn espoused during the '60s, at the end of the day, her career here at the law school is an example of a person's ability to channel one's energy and passion into making a difference in our legal system," Northwestern law school dean David Van Zandt wrote in an e-mail to alumni.
Dohrn and Ayers did not immediately return calls to their offices Thursday.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/aponline/20011101/aponline190504_000.htm   (380 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Can conservatives win a war?
Dohrn," the Journal wrote, "was the most prominent leader of the Weathermen, a group whose favored form of political expression was the planting of bombs in government buildings." Ms.
Dohrn escaped prosecution on a technicality, but did serve "seven months for her refusal to testify about the 1981 Brinks robbery in New York in which the Black Liberation Army killed two police officers." She is now a law professor at Northwestern University Law School.
Time and time again, we root out the front line troops, yet we seem oblivious that they might be taking their marching orders from a determined, forceful enemy that has burrowed deep into our culture and institutions, and is intent on defeating the character, culture and values that have made us strong and free.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25163   (480 words)

  
 Index
Her sister, Bernadine Dorhn, was a a founder of the Weather Underground and was on the run from the federal government during the 1970s.
Her sister, Bernadine Dohrn, was a founder of the Weather Underground and was on the run from the federal government during the 1970s.
JENNIFER DOHRN: My response was that history needed to be reviewed, re-looked at, re-examined, and this was a great time to look at the comparisons between what happened in the early 1970s to me and many others and what in fact is happening now around Iraq and the building of a counterintelligence system.
www.democracynow.org /print.pl?sid=05/06/02/1445253   (2793 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Northwestern’s Resident Terrorist by Brian Hecht
But Dohrn’s initial foray into the legal field was short-lived—she quickly became even more extreme than her NLG comrades (no small feat) and branched out as a leader of some of the most ultra-radical elements within the anti-Vietnam war movement.
The charges against Dohrn and Ayers were later dropped, not because of their innocence, but due to the government’s bungling of the case.
In addition to her oversight of the Family Justice Clinic, Dohrn also taught a class in 2003 titled Children in Trouble with the Law (she has more than her fair share of first hand experience in the matter) and this Spring is teaching a class called Children and Human Rights.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17043   (1282 words)

  
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Dohrn is the director of the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University School of Law, where she is also a clinical associate professor.
She is also known for her militant years in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Dohrn was a national officer in the Students for Democratic Society, a civil rights and anti-war organizer, a leader of the Weather Underground Organization, and was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List.
www.desu.edu /advancement/pr/documents/BernadineDohrn.doc   (123 words)

  
 Debunking the 60s with Ayers and Dohrn -- In These Times
Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, activiists leaders in SDS in the ‘60’s, say a new movement must be built.
In the ’60s, Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers were activists and leaders in Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen.
Today Dohrn is a scholar and director of the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University.
www.inthesetimes.com /site/main/article/2785   (1719 words)

  
 Northwestern Chronicle: Heston 'appalled' by Dohrn
Dohrn and her husband, Bill Ayers, were members of the Weathermen, an outgrowth of Students for a Democratic Society.
None of us should be at all surprised at the fact that Dohrn and Ayers, her husband, now have a legitimate public forum from which to spew their vacuous blather.
Children of privilege, they hold all of us in smug contempt, are unapologetic for their crimes, and now, in their academic coccoon, engage in intellectual incest with their lapdogs in the university.
www.chron.org /tools/viewart.php?artid=240   (1191 words)

  
 Independent Lens . THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND . The Weathermen Today | PBS
Part of the leadership of the Weather Underground, Dohrn was considered the organization’s figurehead.
Today, Dohrn is an associate professor and director at Northwestern University's Children and Justice Center.
Now married to Dohrn, Ayers is currently a school reform activist and a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
www.pbs.org /independentlens/weatherunderground/today.html   (302 words)

  
 Discussion: Debunking the 60s with Ayers and Dohrn -- In These Times
Dohrn is alleged to have made about mass murders of innocent people, does not mean I am from an opposition group.
With regards to Dohrn and Ayers, they have both stated that they are opposed to violence but that they still support the oppressed.
Posted by Spinoza750 on Sep 29, 2006 at 6:22 PM "it is difficult to understand where dohrn and ayers were coming from in the 60"s unless you were alive and able to get honest information about american genocide in vietnam.
www.inthesetimes.com /site/main/discuss/2785   (9936 words)

  
 Austin360 Movies: 'The Weather Underground' Reviews -- Boston Globe
With such charismatic leaders as Rudd, Bernardine Dohrn, and Bill Ayers, they came off as articulate, committed, and chic, and they called for the immediate overthrow of the government.
Here's Dohrn declaiming to the press in 1969 that "white youths have to choose sides now," looking every bit the glamorous revolutionary.
Dohrn and her husband, Ayers, have come in from the cold -- the charges against many of the Weathermen were dropped because of the FBI's heavy-handed tactics -- but they remain politically active and, it is clear, in a certain state of denial.
www.austin360.com /movies/content/movies/reviews/w/weather_globe.html   (701 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Weather Underground: Video: Todd Gitlin,Kathleen Cleaver,Richard Nixon,Evelle Younger,Brian Flanagan ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Although Dohrn and her FOCO know they injured and killed, a close examination of their words will note they said they never injured anyone with their bombs-after the March townhouse mistake.
Dohrn, Jaffe, Ayers, as teachers and Cuba as a terrorist nation, are preparing the next generations to continue "the Movement" (read Communist) fight.
At any rate, Dohrn is now comfortably ensconsed at Northwestern University School of Law, one of the most privileged places in this society she despises, where I am sure she inspires her young students with all her good works.
www.amazon.ca /Weather-Underground-Bill-Siegel/dp/B0001LYFKY   (1521 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Bernadine Dohrn": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
She became a frequent visitor at Soledad Prison, wearing high boots and a leather miniskirt, the "uniform" Weather-leader Bernadine Dohrn had made popular in the militant Left.
But the new SDS president, Bernadine Dohrn, announced on taking office that she was "a revolutionary Communist," while with calculated and (to me)...
BILL PAYERS on PAKADL C runching leaves with her high-heeled boots, Bernadine Dohrn arrives at an irrefutable confirmation of middle age: the visiting of a child for parents weekend.
www.amazon.com /phrase/Bernadine-Dohrn   (538 words)

  
 School Discipline Expert Bernadine Dohrn To Discuss Alternatives to 'Zero Tolerance' Policies
Dohrn headlines Open Society Institute-Baltimore forum on May 12.
Baltimore, May 11, 2004-- Bernadine Dohrn, a nationally known professor, advocate and author, will speak about how students, parents and teachers can advocate for more effective discipline strategies rather than "zero tolerance" policies at an Open Society Institute-Baltimore forum this Wednesday from 10 to 11:30 am.
The Open Society Institute is a private operating and grantmaking foundation that promotes the development of open society around the world.
baltimorechronicle.com /051104SchoolDiscipline.html   (714 words)

  
 The Weather Underground (PBS Documentary about The Weathermen)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Bernadette Dohrn teaches, believe it or not, "juvenile justice", at Northwestern University, and her old bomb-making pal, Bill Ayers, is an Education prof at Univ. of Illinois - Chicago campus.
Bernardine Dohrn, Clinical Associate Professor of Law and Director and Founder of the Children and Family Justice Center, is a leading child advocate.
Dohrn is a member of the Domestic Violence Child Abuse Working Group of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, the steering committee of the Illinois Family Violence Coordinating Committee and is a board member of the Human Rights Watch Children’s Rights Project and the Midwest Coalition for Human Rights.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/1125867/posts   (4765 words)

  
 Accuracy In Media - Blog - Cliff Kincaid
Calling Manson's victims the 'Tate Eight,' Dohrn gloated over the fact that actress Sharon Tate, who was pregnant at the time, had been stabbed with a fork in her womb.
Dohrn is the commencement speaker at Pitzer College on May 16.
If Kerry wins, and if Dohrn continues to be rehabilitated, perhaps she will be picked to head the new administration's Department of Health and Human Services, with an emphasis on the rights of children.
www.aim.org /cliff_blog_entry/P1535_0_12_250   (319 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Presently, Bernardine Dohrn, Clinical Associate Professor of Law and Director and founder of the Children and Family Justice Center, is a child advocate who teaches, lectures and writes about children's law and justice, the needs and rights of children and youth, and international human rights.
Dohrn spent the 1970's living underground and was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list.
Married to Dohrn, Ayers is a school reform activist, Distinguished Professor of Education, and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he teaches courses in interpretive research, urban school change, and youth and the modern predicament.
www.lubeznikcenter.org /dohrn_ayers.html   (209 words)

  
 BERNADINE DOHRN AND BILL AYERS COMING TO MINNEAPOLIS FRIDAY FOR WEATHERMEN FILM.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
At a 1969 “War Council” that helped launch the organization, Dohrn raised three fingers in a “fork salute” to Charles Manson, whom she proposed as a revolutionary inspiration.
Bernadine Dohrn with her son Zayd in San Francisco, 1977, in Shadow's The Weather Underground - 2003
On September 11, 2001, Ayers and Dohrn were to be feted at the Chicago Cultural Center.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/985096/posts   (954 words)

  
 The Heliocentric Committee
Until 1965 Sun Ra's futuristic albums were released on the small, idealistic Saturn label, owned by Sun Ra and the young mystic Alton Abraham, but then Sun Ra was invited by Bernard Stollman to record albums for his renowned ESP label, which made his music available to a much larger audience.
Bernadine Dohrn had other revolutionary sources of inspiration when she and a radical faction of the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) split off to form the militant Weathermen.
The soundtrack is a mix of Heliocentric by Sun Ra, from the album Heliocentric Worlds Vol.1 (recorded in 1965), the first declaration on radio of the Weather Underground read by Bernadine Dohrn (1970), a prison interview with Bobby Seale (c.
www.sea-urchin.net /buggers/helio.html   (640 words)

  
 Weatherman (organization) Summary
The Weathermen were outspoken advocates of the analytical concepts that later came to be known as “white skin privilege” and identity politics.
Meanwhile, Weatherman members that later revealed themselves to be law enforcement officers offered unapologetic testimonies of intentional incitement to violence and terrorist acts, used as a tactic at key junctures to discredit and destroy the group.
Jennifer Dohrn, Bernardine Dohrn's sister, later claimed that according to documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, the FBI planned at one point to kidnap her son when she gave birth.
www.bookrags.com /Weatherman_(organization)   (4436 words)

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