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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, with whom she has two children, who they raised underground before turning themselves in to the authorities in 1981.
From 1984 to 1988, Dohrn was an associate at the law firm Sidley Austin(citation needed).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernardine_Dohrn   (465 words)

  
 The Weathermen
When Bernardine Dohrn was being interviewed by SDS members during her campaign for inter-organizational secretary, she was asked if she considered herself a Socialist.
Dohrn, without a doubt, made the most remarkable turnaround of all members of the Weather Underground; she is currently an activist for children’s rights, working at the Children and Family Justice Center at the Northwestern University School of Law.
At the time of the robbery, Dohrn (who was using an alias at the time) was the manager of the Manhattan children’s boutique Broadway Baby, which gave her access to customer information; with this information, it was possible for Dohrn to assist in creating fake identification for Family members (Castellucci 242).
www.geocities.com /southernscene/edu3.html   (2271 words)

  
 Weatherman leader heads ABA panel - Bernardine Dohrn, former leader of the Weatherman Underground and American Bar Assn ...
Dohrn never renounced the violent tactics of her organization or apologized to the Weatherman victims, including the families of the three New York policemen killed during a Weatherman armed robbery of a Brinks armored truck in the early 1980s.
Dohrn's journey from the political mainstream followed her graduation from the University of Chicago Law School in 1967.
Dohrn was indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiring to bomb and commit murder; she skipped town.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n32_v11/ai_17210383   (685 words)

  
 Next Left Notes - A News Magazine Devoted To Participatory Democracy and Direct Action
Bernardine was introduced as a former SDS/WUO leader, a professor of law at Northwestern University and child's rights activist, a mother of three and lastly, a grandmother - at which point she smiled and raised both fists in the air in celebration.
Dohrn spoke about her own ignorance regarding what had gone on in Rwanda, or even where it was on a map, until one of her students proposed going there.
In a quiet tone Dohrn mentioned that her own interest in the youth and "children's rights is due to having three sons" and that her ability to see the world in terms of its children causes her to frame the struggle in terms of providing a better world for these children.
antiauthoritarian.net /NLN/archive/ncor.html   (2530 words)

  
 Northwestern Chronicle: Dohrn must go, say NU law school alums
Her years as a 60s radical didn't hinder Bernardine Dohrn from becoming director of the Children and Family Justice Center at NU's law school, but in the weeks since September 11 they've caused a small revolt among alumni.
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.
www.chron.org /tools/viewart.php?artid=193   (1445 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com - Live Online
Dohrn was part of the leadership of the Weather Underground and was considered the figurehead of the organization.
Sam Green and Bernardine Dohrn: The story that we were utterly outside the "mainstream" movement was invented by Gitlin and other academics but given "legs" by the organized right wing.
Sam Green and Bernardine Dohrn: One of the things that I don't like about making a film about the 60s/70s is that there's a chance it can play into younger people's feelings that there's no way that we today can compare to what happened back then.
discuss.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/zforum/04/tv_pbs042804.htm   (4588 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: A Terrorist Law Professor by Guy Benson and Bernardine Dohrn
I hoped Dohrn would be willing to condemn some of her crimes and strike a note of reconciliation.
Since Dohrn flatly refuses to answer questions from skeptical sources, she makes it very difficult to discern whether she regrets her crimes and whether she now rejects terrorism as a means to achieve political ends.
Bernardine Dohrn is a former leader of the leftist terrorist organization known as "The Weathermen."
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17757   (868 words)

  
 The Weather Underground Documentary: No Regrets EDWARD GUTHMANN / SF Chronicle 21jul03   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Bernardine Dohrn with her son Zayd in San Francisco in 1977, during the 11 years that Dohrn and her husband were fugitives
Dohrn and Ayers have three sons, each raised in an environment, they say, where politics was constantly discussed but never imposed: Zayd, 26, is a playwright and graduate student in New York; Malik, 23, studies and teaches in Guatemala; and Chesa, 22, is a Yale graduate, Rhodes scholar and the only activist in the bunch.
Dohrn acknowledges that she and the Underground "made a lot of mistakes," but neither she nor Ayers would admit regret about the violent actions the group committed.
www.mindfully.org /Reform/2003/Weather-Underground-21jul03.htm   (1372 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Graying Radicals -- August 22, 1996
Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, two of the most visible and charismatic leaders of Students for a Democratic Society, the militant arm of the anti-war movement, and the even more militant breakaway group, the Weathermen.
BERNARDINE DOHRN: Resistance by every means necessary is happening and will continue to happen within the United States as well as around the world, and I remain committed to the struggle ahead.
BERNARDINE DOHRN: When I finally realized that the kids were going to be getting older and older and not being able to bring kids home and not have--and having a strange life, that made me be willing to go through that.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/weather/radicals_8-22.html   (1903 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)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Dohrn is currently the Director of the Children and Family Justice Center of the Northwestern University School of Law Legal Clinic.
Dohrn discussed how, at the time, she and other activists believed they were involved in a revolution, but when looking back at the past, they were involved in no such thing.
Dohrn highlighted such events as the Tet offensive, which "shreds the Pentagon's claims that the U.S. could have an easy win in Vietnam and punctures the credibility of the military," the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr.
people.colgate.edu /maroon/archivesS00/021100/news/activists.html   (610 words)

  
 Bernardine Dohrn - Moviefone
As a young lawyer with powerful oratory, Dohrn became one of the...
Bernardine Dohrn, Clinical Associate Professor of Law and Director and founder of the Children and Family Justice Center, is a child advocate who teaches,...
Bernardine Dohrn, Bernardine Dohrn Part of the leadership of the Weather Underground, Dohrn was considered the organization?s figurehead.
movies.aol.com /celebrity/bernardine-dohrn/294134/main   (109 words)

  
 Teach Your Children Well @ AMERICAN DIGEST
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.
Dohrn is clearly one of the founding mothers of contemporary domestic terrorism.
americandigest.org /mt-archives/003556.php   (325 words)

  
 [No title]
Bernardine Dohrn, along with her husband Bill Ayers, was a 1960s anti-American militant and leader of the homegrown terrorist group the Weathermen
Dohrn was arrested during the riots for assaulting a police officer.
Dohrn has also stated, "We were completely self-restrained as a movement compared to other world movements." Regardless of her current whitewashing, Dohrn was in fact complicit in a number of terrorist bombings intended to destroy key parts of
www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=2190   (704 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.
Bernardine Dohrn belongs in prison, not as a faculty member of NW Unitersity.
Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn are like the people of Sodom and Gemorrah, the people destroyed in the flood, and perhaps even the Amelekites.
www.chron.org /tools/viewart.php?artid=240   (1191 words)

  
 Northern Star Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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.
Dohrn served as an active participant in the radical anti-Vietnam War movement throughout the ’60s.
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.star.niu.edu /campus/articles/040403-weather.html   (332 words)

  
 Lemisch, Weather Underground
At the workshop at Columbia, Bernardine Dohrn served up all the hoary platitudes about the everyday violence of the standing order -- all true -- leading inevitably to a justification of violent response by a tiny minority substituting itself for a mass movement; at the same time, she offered a rhetorical parenthesis rejecting armed struggle.
Dohrn's defense of Weather included the remark that in the face of terrible oppressions and injustices, it is necessary "to do something about it, it almost doesn't matter what." But it does matter, if we are interested in building rather than tearing apart a new left.
Bernardine Dohrn, show[ed] her inherent female supremacy [wow, unpack that phrase!] by taking the high road and declining to use a captive audience to settle scores from thirty-seven years ago.
www.wpunj.edu /newpol/issue41/Lemisch41.htm   (3626 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   (1769 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)

  
 Amazon.com: "Bernardine Dohrn": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
122 F PART II "If you want to find us, this is where we are," Bernardine Dohrn pro- claimed in her typically provocative manner, in the first communiqu, which was issued in May 1970, just two months...
Bernardine Dohrn, SDS interorganizational secretary, was on the line; she gave a number and told Eleanor to go down to a pay...
At center stage was the charismatic Bernardine Dohrn, described as "chorus-line figured, articulate law-school graduate.
www.amazon.com /phrase/Bernardine-Dohrn   (558 words)

  
 Allies in War
As soon as her tribute to Manson was completed, Dohrn was followed to the Flint platform by another Weather leader who ranted, "We’re against everything that’s ‘good and decent’ in honky America.
Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn are a far more typical academic couple, and their NY Times interlocutor a far more familiar arbiter of information to the American public than is comforting to consider.
The political friends of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn have been busily at work for the last two decades seeding our educational culture with anti-American poisons that could one day destroy us.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=1021   (2160 words)

  
 AR.net >> Discussion Forum >> Film Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Much more philosophic (complacent?) and self-forgiving are the two most famous Weathermen, the husband-and-wife team of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, currently academics in Chicago.
Dohrn may have been joking when, at a 1969 "war conference," she gave a three-fingered "fork salute" and extolled the Tate-LaBianca murders orchestrated by Charles Manson ("Dig it," she reportedly said then.
Bernardine Dohrn and Sam Green will host a question-and-answer session this evening after the 7 and 9:30 screenings.
www.animalrights.net /62431   (888 words)

  
 Politically Inspired Exhibit and Events at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts in Michigan City, IN
The Lubeznik Center is pleased to bring these truly unique opportunities to Northwest Indiana -- from extreme activists, Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, to 1930's social injustices in the deep-south in "Heavens Fall." Learn about events of the past which frame the events of today.
The Lubeznik Center for the Arts is honored to present very special guests, Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, who will speak about their experiences.
Dohrn and Ayers, who are married, are widely known for their roles in the Weather Underground.
ca.prweb.com /releases/2006/11/prweb476401.htm   (702 words)

  
 Tom McMahon: Bernardine Dohrn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Bernardine Dohrn, tellingly enough, helped set the tone for the Weathermen’s militant agenda.
She was arrested for assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest during an attempt to incite a riot during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago and even spent time on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List.
For Dohrn, her current prominent position at Northwestern is the culmination of nearly four decades of violent anti-Americanism.
www.tommcmahon.net /2005/02/bernardine_dohr.html   (476 words)

  
 16870. Dohrn, Bernardine. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
This tendency to consider only bombings or picking up the gun as revolutionary, with the glorification of the heavier the better, we’ve called the military error.
Said in 1970, when Dohrn was a leader of Weather Underground (originally Weathermen), a radical, violent anti-Vietnam war and anti-establishment organization that grew out of the Students for a Democratic Society.
At this time, she was a fugitive from justice and was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list.
www.bartleby.com /66/70/16870.html   (118 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Weather Underground: DVD: Sam Green,Bill Siegel,Kathleen Cleaver,Brian Flanagan,Lili Taylor,David ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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-Sam-Green/dp/B0001LYFKO   (1691 words)

  
 Keyword   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
But.., aiding America's enemies is nothing new for the ACLU.In District Court in Detroit on Thursday, the ACLU ludicrously claimed NSA surveillance must be stopped because it's forcing journalists to fly "overseas to speak with their sources." Sorry, but we haven't heard Bob Schieffer complaining he has to fly to London to phone Hillary Clinton.
Bernardine Dohrn, detailing her work in children's law, her educational background, her academic appointments and other notable accomplishments.
One of the most notable examples of this disturbing phenomenon is Bernardine Dohrn, an Associate Professor and the Director of the Children and Family Justice Clinic at...
www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=bernardinedohrn   (1297 words)

  
 Next Left Notes
Greetings to the SDS National Convention by Bernardine Dohrn
Bernardine Dohrn at the SDS NE Regional Conference (NLN Photo)
As she was not able to attend the SDS 2006 National Convention in Chicago, Bernardine Dohrn sent the following greetings to the gathering.
antiauthoritarian.net /NLN/?p=3   (198 words)

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