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|birth_name        = Bernadine Ohrnstein 
|image             = Bernardine Dohrn NLN cropped.jpg
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|caption           = Dohrn at 2007 reunion of SDS
|birth_date        = {{birth date and age|1942|1|12}}
|birth_place       = [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]], [[U.S.]]
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[[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 [[../
../Benutzer:Siesta/Students_for_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," ''The New Yorker Magazine,'' July 16, 2001, page 49.</ref>  The manifesto stated that "the goal [of revolution] is the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."<ref>"You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows", page 2, PDF found at http://www.archive.org/details/YouDontNeedAWeathermanToKnowWhichWayTheWindBlows_925</ref> 

The manifesto concludes with, "The RYM must also lead to the effective organization needed to survive and to create another battlefield of the revolution. A revolution is a war; when the Movement in this country can defend itself militarily against total repression it will be part of the revolutionary war. This will require a cadre organization, effective secrecy, self-reliance among the cadres...".<ref>"You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows", page 27, PDF found at http://www.archive.org/details/YouDontNeedAWeathermanToKnowWhichWayTheWindBlows_925</ref> 

The manifesto also asserted that African-Americans were a "black colony" 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_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]].

(contracted; show full)ersity of Colorado in Boulder. Dohrn was a speaker and addressed concerns on behalf of new members, saying they wanted to know where the movement was headed and what involvement they could expect. On October 11, 1968, Dohrn suggested she would expand the movement to non-students and do all that was necessary to complete the job of "attack, expose, destroy."<ref name="autogenerated1975">U.S. Government Printing Office, The Weather Underground report, 1975.</ref>

===1969===


Am 29. und 30. Januar 1969 veranstaltete die University of Washington zum Gedenken an den zehnten Jahrestag der kubanischen Revolution ein "Kuba-Teach-In", bei dem Dohrn auf dem Campus eine Rede hielt. Am 14. April nahm sie an einer regionalen Leitungskonferenz der SDS teil. 

Einen Monat später sprach Dohrn bei einer Pressekonferenz im regionalen Hauptquartier der SDS in Chicago von aktuellen Plänen, Abschlussfeiern in Universitäten im ganzen Land anzugreifen. Sie sagte: "Unsere Anwesenheit bei diesen Abschlussfeiern, wo große Leute Reden halten, wird bekannt werden!" 

Dohrn war nun als Mitglied des Nationalen Übergangskomitees der SDS und der Weatherman-Gruppe bekannt. Über Mexiko-Stadt reiste sie mit einer SDS-Delegation am 4. Juli 1969 nach Kuba und kam am 16. August mit einem kubanischen Schiff in Kanada an. 

Am 22. August 1969 wurde Dohrn in Chicago verhaftet, ihr wurde Drogenbesitz vorgeworfen. Die Verteidigung hielt dagegen, die Durchsuchung eines Autos, in dem Dohrn mitgefahren sei, für illegal zu erklären. Am 9. September wies der Richter Kenneth R. Wendt am zuständigen Gerichtshof in Chicago die Klage ab. 

Am 20. September 1969 fand während des David-Cup-Tennisturniers eine Demonstration gegen den Vietnam-Krieg statt, bei der die Polizei zwanzig Personen festnahm, darunter die 27-jährige Bernardine Dohrn. Wegen ordnungswidrigen Verhaltens wurde sie angeklagt. 

Am 26. September wurde Dohrn bei einer Demonstration in Chicago festgenommen. Es handelte sich um eine Solidaritäts-Demonstration für acht Männer, denen einer Verschwörung während der Aufstände gegen die Democratic National Convention 1968 vorgeworfen wurde und denen Anklagen wegen verschwörerischer Aufstände drohten. ⏎
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On January 29 and 30, 1969, in recognition of the tenth anniversary of the revolution, the University of Washington held a Cuba teach-in where Dohrn was a speaker on campus. She attended a regional conference held for the leaders of the SDS on April 14, 1969.

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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==
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A founder of the [[../
../Benutzer:Siesta/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'', (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 [[../
../Benutzer:Siesta/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 ''[[../../Benutzer:Siesta/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 Un(contracted; show full)

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 [[../
../Benutzer:Siesta/David_Gilbert_(activist)|David Gilbert]], after the couple were convicted of murder for their roles in a 1981 [[../../Benutzer:Siesta/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==
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==See also==
*[[List of Weatherman actions]]
*[[Weatherman Member List]]
*''[[The Weather Underground]]'', documentary film

*''[[../../Benutzer:Siesta/Underground_(1976_film)|Underground]]'', documentary film

==References==
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==External links==
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