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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-class]] 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> Her father, Bernard, changed the family surname to Dohrn when Bernardine was in high school.<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&ots=6pO9JyI5wk&sig=xGmUaZOyvJjuEvBzeA8HTKnWaP4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result American in White, Black, and Gray], Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006, p. 278, ISBN 0-8264-1816-3.</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=|url=http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-1993/Rebel-Without-a-Pause/index.php?cp=1&si=0#artanc |title=Rebel Without a Pause - Chicago Magazine - May 1993 - Chicago |publisher=Chicagomag.com |date= |accessdate=2010-11-06}}</ref><ref>[http://books.google.ca/books?id=Ow0gAQAAMAAJ&dq=dorothy+Soder-+berg+Ohrnstein&q=dorothy+]</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/625711092.html?dids=625711092:625711092&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Oct+17%2C+1982&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=Weatherman's+untold+story&pqatl=google | work=Chicago Tribune | first=Peter | last=Collier | title=Weatherman's untold story | date=October 17, 1982}}</ref> Dohrn graduated from [[Whitefish Bay High School]] where she was a cheerleader,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/mailing_lists/CLA-L/2003/02/0066.php |title=The Department of Greek and Latin at The Ohio State University |publisher=Omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu |date= |accessdate=2010-11-06}}</ref> treasurer of the Modern Dance Club, a member of the National Honor Society, and editor of the school newspaper.<ref name=lgbda1/> 

She attended [[Miami University]] for one year, then transferred to the [[University of Chicago]], where she graduated with honors with a B.A. in Political Science in 1963. Dohrn received her [[Juris Doctor|J.D.]] from the [[University of Chicago Law School]] in 1967.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/clinic/dohrn/dohrn.html |title=Bernardine Dohrn, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Faculty Profiles, Faculty & Research, School of Law, Northwestern University |publisher=Law.northwestern.edu |date= |accessdate=2010-11-06}}</ref>  She moved to New York to work for the [[National Lawyers Guild]] in 1967.

==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 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]].

Dohrn led the Weatherman faction in the SDS fight and continued to be a leader afterward.<ref>Chepesiuk, Ron, "Sixties Radicals, Then and Now: Candid Conversations With Those Who Shaped the Era", McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers: Jefferson, North Carolina, 1995, "Chapter 15: Bernardine Dohrn: From Revolutionary to Children's Rights Advocate",  pages 223 and 224: "Dohrn, a leader of the Weather Underground" (p 223); "she then proceeded to lead the faction in the takeover of the organization's headquarters and the seizure of its assets"</ref><ref name="plm102581">Montgomery, Paul L., [http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F4091EFA3B5D0C768EDDA90994D9484D81 "Last of Radical Leaders Eluded Police 11 Years"], article, ''The New York Times'', October 25, 1981. Retrieved June 8, 2008.</ref>

===Controversial statements about Tate-LaBianca murders===
Dohrn was criticized for comments she made about the murders of actress [[Sharon Tate]] and retail store owners [[Leno and Rosemary LaBianca]] by the [[Charles Manson]] clan. In a speech during the December 1969 "War Council" meeting organized by the Weathermen, attended by about 400 people in [[Flint, Michigan]], Dohrn said, "First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they even shoved a fork into the pig Tate's stomach! Wild!"<ref>There are slightly differing versions of this quote cited in books and news reports.<br />Bugliosi, Vincent, Helter Skelter, 2001 page 297<br />Barber, David (2008). ''A hard rain fell: SDS and why it failed'', page 211.</ref>  In greeting each other, delegates to the war council often spread their fingers to signify the fork.<ref name="autogenerated49"/>

In 2008, Dohrn's husband [[Bill Ayers]] wrote that Dohrn was being ironic when she made the statement about the Manson murders.<ref name=bablog>Ayers, Bill, [http://billayers.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/im-sorry-i-think/ "I'M SORRY!!!! I think ...."], blog post, "Bill Ayers" blog, March 3, 2008. Retrieved June 8, 2008.</ref> Ayers wrote that he always thought Dohrn's statement was intended to make a political point, "agitated and inflamed and full of rhetorical overkill, and partly as a joke, stupid perhaps, tasteless, but a joke nonetheless", and similar (he said) to jokes about Charles Manson that were being made by [[Hunter S. Thompson]] and [[Richard Pryor]]. Ayers said he had been present at interviews with reporters in which Dohrn had tried to put her statement in context but the reporters had dismissed her explanation.<ref name=bablog/>

==Life and the Weather Underground==
===1959-1967===
Dohrn graduated from Whitefish Bay High School in June 1959.  She later attended Miami University from September 1959 to January 1961.  She then transferred to the University of Chicago and earned three degrees.  She got a Bachelors of Arts in June 1963 then a Masters in June 1964 and later a law degree in June 1967.  While attending law school, Dohrn began working with Martin Luther King, Jr. She was the first law student organizer for the National Lawyers Guild. She was organizing against the war in Vietnam and in conjunction with the Black Freedom Movement.  In 1967 Bernardine Dohrn was listed as the new student director of the National Lawyers Guild.<ref>Siegel, Bill et al, The Weather Underground, the American Historical Review, 2004.</ref>

===1968===
 
On May 26, 1968, as a speaker for the National Lawyers Guild, Dohrn said she was filing a motion in federal court asking for an injunction to halt any disciplinary action that was being taken against student activists and any of the criminal charges. She represented students from Columbia who were striking and protesting.

On June 14, 1968, Dohrn was elected the Inter-organizational Secretary of SDS. When elected, she was asked if she was a socialist and she replied, "I consider myself a revolutionary communist."<ref name="autogenerated2006">Berger, Dan, Outlaws of America: the Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity, AK press, 2006.</ref>

From August 30 to September 1, 1968, Dohrn visited Yugoslavia. On September 20, 1968, after returning from Europe with a group of American student leaders, she announced they had met in Budapest with representatives from North Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam to discuss peace talks.

On the night of October 1, 1968, Dohrn spoke at a meeting in Chicago to condemn policy action in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention. From October 11 to 13, Students for a Democratic Society held a National meeting at the University 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===

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.

A month later at a press conference at the regional headquarters of SDS in Chicago, Dohrn spoke of the plans that were under way to "attack" college graduation ceremonies across the country. She said, "Our presence will be known at the graduation ceremonies where the big people will come as speakers."

Dohrn was now known as a National Interim Committee member of the SDS and a member of the Weatherman group. She traveled to Cuba via Mexico City on July 4, 1969, with a delegation from the SDS and later arrived in Canada on a Cuban Vessel on August 16, 1969.

On August 22, 1969, Dohrn was arrested in Chicago and charged with possession of drugs. The defense argued police conducted an illegal search of the car in which she was a passenger. On September 9, 1969, Judge Kenneth R. Wendt of Narcotics Court of Chicago dismissed the charges.

On September 20, 1969, there was an anti-Vietnam rally at the Davis Cup tennis tournament. Police arrested twenty persons, including 27-year-old Bernardine Dohrn. She was charged with disorderly conduct.

On September 26, 1969, Dohrn was arrested in Chicago during a demonstration. The rally was in support of the eight men accused of conspiracy concerning the riot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, who were being tried on riot conspiracy charges.

Dohrn was arrested on October 9, 1969, by the Chicago police during a rally for women’s faction of the Weathermen group. She was later released on a one thousand dollar bond.

October 24, 1969 Southern Illinoisan, Oregon, ILL. (AP)

Police raided three cabins at White Pines State Park Thursday night and turned up some top leaders of the militant Weatherman faction of the Students for a Democratic Society. Two persons were arrested — Jeffrey C. Jones, 22, SDS interorganizational secretary from Cylmar, Calif,, and Linda Sue Evans, 22, of Ann Arbor, Mich. Among others questioned and released were Mark W. Rudd, 22, national SDS secretary from Maple Park, N.J.; Bernadine Dohrn, 27, former interorganizational secretary from Chicago; and William C. Ayers, 24, of Ann Arbor, SDS educational secretary. Jones was charged with possession of a deadly weapon and released on $1,000 bond. Police said he bad a blackjack. Miss Evans was charged with auto theft. The car, authorities said, was a rented vehicle which had not been returned on time.

Sheriff Ed Lang of Ogle County said police were called by park authorities whose suspicions were aroused when the SDSers would not allow maids into the cabins to change bed sheets. A state trooper and several members of the sheriff's office participated in the raid. The SDS members had been at the park since Monday but checked out after being questioned by police. Several of them were among the scores arrested in Chicago during street violence earlier this month. Others at the park were Terry Robbins, 22, New York City; John G. Jacobs, 22, Detroit; James G. Mellen, 34 ''(Jim Mellen),'' Chelsea, Mich.; Gerald W. Long, 33, Detroit; and Robert Mackowsky, 19, Fort Lee, N. J. <ref>October 24, 1969 Southern Illinoisan October 24, 1969 Oregon, ILL. (AP) Page 1</ref>

On October 31, 1969, a grand jury indicted 22 people, including Dohrn, because of her involvement with the trial of the Chicago 8. 

On April 2, 1970, in Chicago a Federal Grand Jury indicted twelve members of the Weatherman group, including Dohrn, on conspiracy charges to violate the anti-riot act during the "[[Days of Rage]]" which was held in Chicago on October 8 through 11, 1969.<ref name="autogenerated1975"/>

On November 21, 1972, all of the convictions were reversed by the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit]] on the basis the judge was biased in his refusal to permit defense attorneys to screen prospective jurors for cultural and racial bias.<ref>''United States v. Dellinger'', 472 F.2d 340 (7th Cir. 1972).</ref>

===1970s===

In May 1970, Dohrn recorded and sent a transcript of a tape recording to the ''New York Times''. The statement was a "declaration of a State of War" on behalf of the Weathermen.  

On October 14, 1970, Bernardine Rae Dohrn was added to the Federal Bureau of Investigations list of the "10 Most Wanted" fugitives. She used several aliases, including Bernardine Rae Ohrnstein, H.T. Smith, and Marion Del Gado.  The FBI removed Dohrn from its "10 Most Wanted" list in December 1973, after District Judge Damon J. Keith dismissed the case against the Weathermen. 

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 110: "Ayers, along with Bernardine Dohrn, probably had the most authority within the Weatherman."</ref>

During this period, the group organized the October 1969 [[Days of Rage]] riot in Chicago, which Dohrn led.<ref name=hwket>Kushner, Harvey W., [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZOfkAoDb_2IC&pg=PA108&dq=Dohrn+Weatherman&ei=2GDBSIbiI5WKyQSVn9SIDg&sig=ACfU3U3ODwbojAzl9F-jFi5x34vkPj421w ''Encyclopedia of Terrorism''], Sage Publications Inc, 2003, pp 108-109, ISBN 0-7619-2408-6, ISBN 978-0-7619-2408-1 ; retrieved via Google Books, September 5, 2008</ref> During the 1970s, the Weathermen bombed federal buildings and police stations.<ref name=nsnyt120580>Sheppart, Nathaniel, Jr., "Chicago Home of a Friend was Refuge for Miss Dohrn", ''The New York Times'', December 5, 1980, p A22</ref> 
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.

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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 #1"], 1976, pp 23-24, FBI website, retrieved June 8, 2008</ref>

:We are building a communist organization to be part of the forces which build a revolutionary communist party to lead the working class to seize power and build socialism. [...] We must further the study of Marxism-Leninism within the WUO [Weather Underground Organization]. The struggle for Marxism-Leninism is the most significant development in our recent history. [...] We discovered thru our own experiences what revolutionaries all over the world have found &mdash; that Marxism-Leninism is the science of revolution, the revolutionary ideology of the working class, our guide to the struggle [...]"

According to a 1974 FBI study of the group, Dohrn's article signaled a developing commitment to [[Marxism-Leninism]] that had not been clear in the group's previous statements, despite trips to [[Cuba]] by some members of the group before and after Weather Underground was formed, and contact with Vietnamese communists there.<ref name=fbi74/>

===Leaving the underground===

While on the run from police, Dohrn married another Weatherman leader, [[Bill Ayers]], with whom she has two children. During the last years of their underground life, Dohrn and Ayers resided in Chicago, where they used the aliases Christine Louise Douglas and Anthony J. Lee.<ref name="nsnyt120580" /> 

In the late 1970s, the Weatherman group split into two factions, the "May 19 Coalition" and the "Prairie Fire Collective", with Dohrn and Ayers in the latter. The Prairie Fire Collective favored coming out of hiding, with members facing the criminal charges against them, while the May 19 Coalition continued in hiding. A decisive factor in Dohrn's coming out of hiding were her concerns about her children.<ref name="lfnyt112281">Franks, Lucinda, [http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F00B1FFF3D5C0C718EDDA80994D9484D81 "The Seeds of Terror"], article, ''New York Times Magazine'', November 22, 1981. Retrieved June 8, 2008.</ref>

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==
From 1984 to 1988, Dohrn was employed by the prestigious Chicago law firm [[Sidley Austin]].<ref name=nyt1>Haitch, Richard. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E4D71739F933A25751C0A963948260 Hurdle for Dohrn], ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 10, 1985. Retrieved October 17, 2008.</ref> She was hired by Howard Trienens, the head of the firm at that time, who knew [[Thomas G. Ayers]], the father of Dohrn's husband. "We often hire friends," Trienens told a reporter for the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''.<ref name=rgct51808>Grossman, Ron. [http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-radical-ayers_thinkmay18,0,5953909.story Family ties proved Ayers' point], ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', May 18, 2008, last accessed, October 17, 2008.</ref> However, Dohrn had not been admitted to the New York or Illinois bar. She passed the New York bar exam but had not submitted an application to the [[New York Supreme Court]]'s Committee on Character and Fitness.<ref name=nyt1/> She also passed the Illinois bar, but was turned down by the Illinois ethics committee because of her criminal record. Trienens said of the Illinois rejection, "Dohrn didn't get a [law] license because she's stubborn. She wouldn't say she's sorry." <ref name=rgct51808/>

In 1991, she was hired by [[Northwestern University School of Law]] in Chicago, as an adjunct professor of law, with the title "Clinical Associate Professor of Law". Trienens said he did not get her that job, although he sat on the board of trustees of Northwestern, as did Dohrn's father-in-law, who was chairman of the board until 1986, when Trienens succeeded him in that position. Robert Bennett, dean of the law school, had hired Dohrn, according to Trienens. Because Dohrn was hired as an [[Professors_in_the_United_States#Adjunct_professor|adjunct]] (a temporary assignment), her appointment did not need to be approved by the faculty. When law school officials were asked whether or not the dean hired Dohrn or the board of trustees approved the hiring, the school issued a statement in response stating "While many would take issue with views Ms. Dohrn espoused during the 1960s, her career at the law school is an example of a person's ability to make a difference in the legal system."<ref name=rgct51808/>  

In 1994, Dohrn said of her political beliefs: "I still see myself as a radical."<ref>Chepesiuk, Ron, "Sixties Radicals, Then and Now: Candid Conversations With Those Who Shaped the Era", McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers: Jefferson, North Carolina, 1995, "Chapter 15: Bernardine Dohrn: From Revolutionary to Children's Rights Advocate",  p 239;"Acknowledgements" section dated by the author as "Summer 1994" indicating interview took place before that</ref>

Her son Zayd was featured in the 1998 book ''[[A Hope in the Unseen]]'' as the college friend of the main character [[Cedric Jennings]].

Dohrn 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]]. Her legal work has focused on reforming the much criticized juvenile court system in Chicago and on advocating for human rights at the international level.  Dohrn is director and founder of the Children and Family Justice Center, which supports the legal needs of adolescents and their families.<ref>http://www.law.northwestern.edu/cfjc/directorsmessage.html</ref>

In 2008, Dohrn and Ayers [[Bill Ayers presidential election controversy|resurfaced into news headlines]] as presidential candidate [[John McCain]] and his running mate [[Sarah Palin]] publicly denounced the ties between [[Bill Ayers|Ayers]] and then presidential candidate [[Barack Obama]].<ref>Bumiller, Elisabeth and Healy, Patrick. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/us/politics/10campaign.html McCain Joins Attacks on Obama Over Radical], ''The [[New York Times]]'', October 9, 2008. Retrieved October 10, 2008.</ref><ref>Cooper, Michael. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/us/politics/05palin.html Palin, on Offensive, Attacks Obama's Ties to '60s Radical], ''The [[New York Times]], October 4, 2008. Retrieved October 10, 2008.</ref>

On November 4, 2010, Dohrn was interviewed by ''[[Newsclick]] India''.  About 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==
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==External links==
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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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| DATE OF BIRTH     = January 12, 1942
| PLACE OF BIRTH    = [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]], [[U.S.]]
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