Weather Underground

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Weather Underground

• Support

2
Financial support

• Unorganized in methods of funding
• Pooled money Pawning valuables, trust funds,
  family, drugs, liquidating accounts, financial
  aid, few held jobs.
• Stole food from stores to save money

3
Alliances

• No ties outside the country
• Symbionese Liberation Army and Federation
  Diverse, anti-fascist. Patricia Hearst, 1974
• Black Panther Party Investigated SLA
• Black Liberation Army

4
Recruitment

• Word of mouth
• Days of Rage brought in up to 800 new members
• Recruitment efforts spread through Seattle, New
  York, San Francisco, Boston, Madison WI, etc.
• Cincinnati, Cleveland, Ann Arbor MI, Chicago and
  Detroit received larger recruitment efforts
• Days of Rage hurt relationship with Black Panthers

5
Conclusion

• Not very financially organized.
• Had connections to other activist groups in the
  US, no monetary support.
• Had small numbers but the Days of Rage helped
  slightly increase membership, while also damaging
  established connections.