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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 1960s radical leftist organization [[Weatherman (organization)|Weatherman]].

==Early Life and Career==

(contracted; show full)960_organization%29#Climax_and_disintegration:_1968.E2.80.931969 RYM-led upheaval]. In July 1969, Dohrn, [[Eleanor Raskin]], [[Dianne Donghi]], [[Peter Clapp]], [[David Millstone]] and [[Diana Oughton]], all representing "[[Weatherman (organization)|Weatherman]]", as Dohrn's faction was now called, traveled to Cuba and met with representatives of the North Vietnamese and Cuban governments. 

[[Weatherman (organization)|The Weathermen]], as they were known colloquially, conducted a series of 
terroris[[direct action]]s against the US government throughout the early 1970s.  Dohrn is a principal signatory on the group's "Declaration of a State of War" (1970) which formally declared war on the U.S. Government, and completed the group's transformation from political advocacy to armed resistance.  Dohrn also co-wrote and published the subversive manifesto ''[[Prairie Fire]]'' (1974), and participated in the covertly-filmed ''[[Underground_(documentary_film)|Underground]]'(contracted; show full)
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