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'''Bernardine Rae Dohrn''' (born [[January 12]], [[1942]]) is an Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law and the Director of Northwestern's [http://www.law.northwestern.edu/cfjc/ Children and Family Justice Center].  She is a former leader of the organization known as the [[Weatherman (organization)|Weathermen]].

==Early Life and Career==

Dorhn was born in [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]] in 1942 and grew up in [[Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin]]. She graduated from [[Whitefish Bay High School]] where she was a cheerleader <ref>http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/mailing_lists/CLA-L/2003/02/0066.php</ref> and attended the [[University of Chicago]] where she graduated with honors with a B.A. in Political Science in 1963, and with a J.D. from the [[University of Chicago Law School|University of Chicago School of Law]] in 1967. <ref>[http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/clinic/dohrn/dohrn.html Bernardine Dohrn, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Faculty Profiles, Faculty & Research, School of Law, Northwestern University<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

Dohrn became one of the leaders of the [[Revolutionary Youth Movement]] (RYM), a radical wing of [[Students for a Democratic Society]] (SDS), in the late 1960s. In the summer of 1969, the ninth annual national SDS conference was held. SDS collapsed in a RYM-led upheaval at the end of the convention.  "The [[Weatherman (organization)|Weathermen]]" as Dohrn's faction was now called, began a series of [[direct action]]s against the American government. As a result of an accidental explosion during the preparation of a bomb destined for a US military dance hall, which killed several members of the group, Dohrn and other Weathermen went underground.  For half a decade, Dohrn and the Underground carried out clandestine actions, largely bombings, against the U.S. government.  She is well-known as the signatory on the Weather Underground's "Declaration of a State of War," which formally declared war on the U.S. Government.  Dohrn and others also co-wrote and published the subversive manifesto ''[[Prairie Fire]]'', and participated in a covertly filmed propaganda documentary, ''Underground''. {{Fact|date=February 2007}}

Dohrn later married former Weather Underground leader [[Bill Ayers]], with whom she has two children, Zayd and Malik, whom they raised as fugitives before turning themselves in to authorities in 1980.  During the last years of their underground life, Dohrn and Ayers resided in the [[Logan_Square%2C_Chicago|Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago]], where they used the aliases Christine Louise Douglas and Anthony J. Lee.<ref>Chicago Home of a Friend was Refuge for Miss Dohrn.  Nathaniel Sheppard, Jr. New York Times. Dec 5, 1980. p. A.22</ref> While some charges relating to their activities with the Weathermen were dropped due to governmental misconduct<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen - New York Times<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>, Dohrn pled guilty to charges of aggravated battery and bail jumping, receiving probation. <ref> Milwaukee Sentinel, Jan. 14, 1981 </ref> She later served less than a year of jail time, after refusing to testify against ex-Weatherman Susan Rosenberg in an armed robbery case<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen - New York Times<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>.   Shortly after turning themselves in, Dohrn and Ayers adopted Chesa Boudin, when his biological parents and former members of the Weather Underground, [[Kathy Boudin]] and [[David Gilbert]], were arrested in connection with the [[Black Liberation Army]]. {{Fact|date=February 2007}}

From 1984 to 1988, Dohrn was employed by the law firm [[Sidley Austin]], although her criminal record has prevented her from being admitted to either the New York or Illinois bar.<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E4D71739F933A25751C0A963948260 FOLLOW-UP ON THE NEWS; Hurdle for Dohrn - New York Times<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>  In 1991, she became a Clinical Associate Professor of Law at [[Northwestern University]] in Chicago.  She now serves on the board of numerous human rights committees and teaches comparative law.  Since 2002, she has served as Visiting Law Faculty at the [[Vrije Universiteit]] in [[Amsterdam]].

==Articles by Dohrn==

*[http://www.monthlyreview.org/0703dohrn.htm Homeland Imperialism: Fear and Resistance, by Bernardine Dohrn - Monthly Review]
*[http://www.monthlyreview.org/0104dohrn.htm She Challenged the Rules, by Bernardine Dohrn - Monthly Review]

== External links ==
*[http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/clinic/dohrn/dohrn.html Her biography at the Northwestern Law site, with a link to her CV]
*[http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/today.html PBS Article "The Weathermen Today"]
*[http://www.mugshots.com/Historical/Bernardine+Dohrn.htm Mugshot From Chicago PD Files]
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17953182/displaymode/1107//s/2/framenumber/5 MSNBC Photo Gallery: Really Bad Girls]

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