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'''Bernardine Rae Dohrn''' ([[née]] '''Ohrnstein'''; geb. 12. Januar 1942) is an Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law and the immediate past Director of Northwestern's [[Northwestern University School of Law#Children and Family Justice Center|Children and Family Justice Center]]. Dohrn was a leader of the [[Weather Underground]], a group that was responsible for the bombing of the United States Capitol, the Pentagon, and several police stations in New York.  As a member of the Weather Underground, Dohrn read a "Declaration of a State of War" against the United States government, and was placed on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list, where she remained for three years.  She now teaches at Northwestern Law School and is married to [[Bill Ayers]], a co-founder of the Weather Underground, who was formerly a tenured professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

==Early life==
Bernardine Dohrn wurde 1942 als Bernadine Ohrnstein in [[Milwaukee]] im US-Bundesstaat [[Wisconsin]] geboren und wuchs in [[Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin|Whitefish Bay]] auf, einem [[upper-middle-cgehobeneren Mittelklass]] e-Vorort von [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]].<ref name=lgbda1>Grathwohl, Larry, and Frank, Reagan, ''Bringing Down America: An FBI Informant in with the Weathermen'', Arlington House, 1977, page 103</ref> Ihr Vater, Bernhard, veränderte den Familiennamen zu Dohm, als Bernardine Schülerin der High School war. Ihr Vater war Jude, während die Mutter, Dorothy, schwedischer Herkunft war und der Christlichen Wissenschaft anhing. Dohrn absolvierte die Whitefish Bay High School, in der sie als Cheerleader aktiv gewesen war, den Modern Dance Club gegründet hatte, Mitglied der National Honor Society gewesen war und als Redakteurin der Schülerzeitung gearbeitet hatte.  

Für ein Jahr besuchte sie anschließend die Universität von Miami und wechselte dann zur Universität von Chicago, die sie 1963 mit einem ausgezeichneten Bachelor-Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften abschloss. 1967 verlieh ihr die Jurafakultät der Universität Chicago einen Doktortitel in Jura. Im gleichen Jahr zog Bernardine Dohrn nach New York, um für die National Lawyers Guild, einen gemeinnützigen alternativen Juristenverband, zu arbeiten.    



<nowiki> in  Her father, Bernard, changed the family surname to Dohrn when Bernardine was in high school.</nowiki><ref>Lear, Patricia [http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-1993/Rebel-Without-a-Pause/index.php?cp=2&si=1 Rebel Without a Pause], ''[[Chicago (magazine)|Chicago]]'', May 1993. Retrieved October 9, 2008.</ref>  Her father was [[Jew]]ish and her mother, Dorothy (née Soderberg), was of Swedish background and a Christian Scientist.<ref>Fischer, Klaus P. [http://books.google.com/books?id=sCXig_6abwkC&pg=PA278&lpg=PA278&dq=ohrnstein+Dohrn&source=web&a(contracted; show full)

==Early radical history==
[[File:Young Dohrn profile sketch.jpg|thumb|Sketch and photograph of Dohrn (c. 1960s)]]
Dohrn became one of the leaders of the [[Revolutionary Youth Movement]] (RYM), a radical wing of [[
../Students  _for a _a_Democratic  _Society  _(1960  _organization)|Students for a Democratic Society]] (SDS), in the late 1960s. Dohrn with ten other SDS members associated with the RYM issued, on June 18, 1969, a sixteen-thousand-word manifesto entitled, "You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows" in ''New Left Notes''.  The title came from [[Bob Dylan]]'s song, "[[Subterranean Homesick Blues]]."<ref name="autogenerated49">Kolbert, Elizabeth, "The Prisoner," '(contracted; show full)olony" within a U.S. government that was doomed to overextend itself.  And the RYM was needed to quicken this process. Dohrn said, "The best thing that we can be doing for ourselves, as well as for the [Black] Panthers and the revolutionary black liberation struggle, is to build a fucking white revolutionary movement."<ref name="autogenerated49"/>  

The ninth annual national SDS conference was held at the Coliseum in Chicago on June 18–22, 1969, and the SDS collapsed in a [[
../Students  _for a _a_Democratic  _Society  _(1960  _organization)#Climax  _and  _disintegration:  _1968–1969|Revolutionary Youth Movement-led upheaval]]. Soon after the Revolutionary Youth Movement became known as the [[Weather Underground|Weatherman]].

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On January 3, 1974, U.S. District Court Judge [[Julius Hoffman|Julius J. Hoffman]] dismissed a 4-year-old case against twelve members of the Weatherman faction of the [[Students for a Democratic Society]], which included Dohrn. She had been charged with leading the riotous "Days of Rage"<ref name="autogenerated2006"/>

==Later radical history==
{{further|List of Weatherman actions}}
A founder of the [[
../Weatherman  _(organization)|Weatherman group]], Dohrn was a member of the "Weather Bureau" (name later changed to "Central Committee"). [[Larry Grathwohl]], an FBI informant who was with the Weatherman from autumn 1969 through spring 1970, considered her one of the two top leaders of the organization, along with [[Bill Ayers]].<ref name=lgbda12>Grathwohl, Larry, and Frank, Reagan, ''Bringing Down America: An FBI Informant in with the Weathermen'', Arlington House, 1977, page(contracted; show full)
Prior to the March 6, 1970 [[Greenwich Village townhouse explosion]], in which three members of the group were killed as a bomb was being constructed, all members of Weatherman went underground. The group then changed its name to [[
../Weatherman  _(organization)|Weather Underground]].

Dohrn went underground in early 1970, engaging in bombing activities.

===Role in policymaking, ideology and public statements for Weather Underground===
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Dohrn was a principal signatory on the group's "Declaration of a State of War"  in 1970 that formally declared "war" on the U.S. Government, and completed the group's transformation from political advocacy to violent action. Dohrn also co-wrote (with Bill Ayers) and published the subversive manifesto ''[[Weather Underground Organization#Prairie Fire 1974|Prairie Fire]]'' in 1974, and participated in the covertly filmed ''[[../Underground  _(documentary  _film)|Underground]]'' in 1976. 

In late 1975, the Weather Underground put out an issue of a magazine, ''Osawatamie'', which carried an article by Dohrn, "Our Class Struggle", described as a speech given to the organization's cadres on September 2 of that year. In the article, Dohrn clearly stated support for [[Communism|communist]] ideology:<ref name=fbi74>[http://foia.fbi.gov/weather/weath1a.pdf "Weatherman Underground / Summary Dated 8/20/76 / Part (contracted; show full)

The couple turned themselves in to authorities in 1980. While some charges relating to their activities with the Weathermen were dropped due to [[prosecutorial misconduct]]<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite news|last
= = Smith |first= = Dinitia |url= = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print |title= = No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen |publisher= = New York Times |date= = 2001-09-11 |accessdate= = 2010-11-06}}</ref> (see [[COINTELPRO]]), Dohrn pled guilty to charges of aggravated battery and bail jumping, receiving probation.<ref>Milwaukee Sentinel, Jan. 14, 1981</ref>

After refusing to testify against ex-Weatherman [[Susan Rosenberg]] in an armed robbery case, she later served less than a year of jail time.<ref name="autogenerated1" /> Shortly after turning themselves in, Dohrn and Ayers became legal guardians of [[Chesa Boudin]], the son of former members of the Weather Underground, [[Kathy Boudin]] and [[../David  _Gilbert  _(activist)|David Gilbert]], after the couple were convicted of murder for their roles in a 1981 [[../Brinks  _robbery  _(1981)|armored car robbery]].<ref name="NY Times-James Barron 2003">NY Times -James Barron August 21, 2003 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9802E4D81F30F932A1575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all</ref>

==Later life and career==
(contracted; show full)t the "Right" in the U.S., she said, "It's racist; it's armed; it’s hostile; it’s unspeakable." Referring to the [[Restoring Honor rally]] which was promoted by [[Glenn Beck]] and held on August 28, 2010, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., "You have white people armed, demanding the end to the [Obama] presidency." She also stated, "The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world."<ref>{{cite web|url
= = http://newsclick.in/node/1913 |title= = NewsClick India, November 4, 2010 |publisher= = Newsclick.in |date  = |accessdate= = 2010-11-06}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of Weatherman actions]]
*[[Weatherman Member List]]
*''[[The Weather Underground]]'', documentary film
*''[[../Underground  _(1976  _film)|Underground]]'', documentary film

==References==
<references />

==External links==
{{Wikisource|Author:Bernardine Dohrn|lang= = en}}
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* {{IMDb Name|0230663}}
* [http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/profiles/BernardineDohrn Her biography at the Northwestern Law site, with a link to her CV]
* [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/weather/radicals_8-22.html  Transcript of interview in 1996 with Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers]
* [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.democracynow.org/2008/11/24/democracy_now_exclusive_part_2_bill Interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now]
* [http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/jonah-raskin-rag-blog-interview-with.html Interview with Bernardine Dohrn by Jonah Raskin, The Rag Blog, October 20, 2011]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/RagRadio2011-10-21-BernardineDohrn Bernardine Dohrn on Rag Radio, October 21, 2011], interviewed by [[Thorne Webb Dreyer|Thorne Dreyer]] (57:33)

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