Mother Country Radicals

Zayd sits down with his mom, Bernardine Dohrn, along with Jamie and Karen Zelermyer of Wonder Media Network’s I Was Never There to look back at the process of making a show so deeply rooted in personal family history. Jamie and Zayd interview their mothers to learn how they felt reliving their radical pasts and what it was like to make a podcast with their children. And in a time that feels so similar politically to the turbulent decades Karen and Bernardine lived through - how do they find hope? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy [https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

Zayd connects to other children of the underground. Out of the shards of the radical movements of the 1970s, a new generation fights to build a better future. For more of the story, check out:  * Chesa Boudin, Letters from Young Activists: Today’s Rebels Speak Out [https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Young-Activists-Chesa-Boudin/dp/1560257474] (2005) * Patrisse Cullors & asha bandel, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir [https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250171085/when-they-call-you-a-terrorist] (2018) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy [https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

Former members of the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army carry out one last action together, with deadly consequences that reverberate across generations.  For more of the story, check out:  * Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography [https://www.akpress.org/assata.html] (1987) * Dhoruba bin Wahad, Assata Shakur & Mumia Abu-Jamal, Still Black, Still Strong [https://www.amazon.com/Still-Black-Strong-Dhoruba-Wahad/dp/0936756748/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3K5J30VPVKH2F&keywords=Still+Black%2C+Still+Strong&qid=1647093815&s=books&sprefix=still+black%2C+still+strong%2Cstripbooks%2C52&sr=1-1] (1993) * Dan Berger, Outlaws of America: the Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity [https://smile.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3CU9KQL66X5OR&keywords=dan+berger+outlaw&qid=1658333695&sprefix=dan+berger+outlaw%2Caps%2C132&sr=8-1] (2005) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy [https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

The end of the Vietnam War means the end of the Weather Underground. Zayd’s parents and their radical comrades, still on the run from the FBI, plan a different kind of future.  For more of the story, check out:  * Emile de Antonio, Underground [https://archive.org/details/UndergroundEmileDeAntonio1976] (1976) Mona Rocha, The Weatherwomen: Militant Feminists of the Weather Underground [https://www.greenapplebooks.com/book/9781476676654] (2020) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy [https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

The Weather Underground Organization and the Black Liberation Army go to war with the United States government. For more of the story, check out:  * The BLA, Black Liberation Army Papers [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/sclead/umich-scl-bla?view=text](1963-1998) Sekou Odinga, Dhoruba Bin Wahad & Jamal Joseph, Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st Century Revolutions [https://bookshop.org/books/look-for-me-in-the-whirlwind-from-the-panther-21-to-21st-century-revolutions/9781629633893] (2017) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy [https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]