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🗓️ 8 August 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi, talking about listeners. I'm excited to share a preview of the documentary podcast series, |
0:04.8 | Mother Country Radicals. Winner of this year's Tribeca Film Festival Award for Best Audio |
0:09.9 | Storytelling in Non-Fiction. In Mother Country Radicals, a family history of the weather underground, |
0:15.3 | host Zay Dorm takes us back to the 1970s when he was born underground to parents who were |
0:20.6 | counter-culture outlaws and on the run from the FBI. We'll learn how his parents and their young |
0:26.0 | friends in the weather underground organization declared war on the United States government, |
0:30.5 | brawled with riot cops on the streets of Chicago, bombed the Pentagon and the US Capitol, |
0:35.2 | broke comrades out of prison and teamed up with black militant groups to rob banks, |
0:39.7 | fight racism, and help build a revolution. Across 10 episodes and in first-person narrative, |
0:45.0 | the series explores how the weather underground organization transformed themselves from peace |
0:49.2 | activists into violent revolutionaries. Why were they willing to risk their lives, |
0:53.5 | privilege, and promising futures to fight racism, overthrow an unjust system, and change the world? |
0:58.2 | Mother Country Radicals, produced by Crooked Media and Odyssey, is available now, wherever you |
1:02.4 | listen to podcasts. In 1970, a 28-year-old recent law school graduate became the most wanted |
1:09.1 | woman in America. Angela Davis was replaced on the FBI's 10 most wanted list by Bernadine Rae |
1:15.8 | Dorn. With him an X-14 day, we will attack a similar institution in American injustice. |
1:21.9 | They said she was an enemy of the state. There were three early morning bomb blasts. |
1:26.4 | A homegrown terrorist. A bomb exploded early this morning in the Pentagon. |
1:30.8 | J. Edgar Hoover called her the most dangerous woman in America. I'm going to read a declaration |
1:35.9 | of a state of war. She's also my mother. What's it like having me do this kind of research |
1:42.0 | into your past? It's wonderful that you're interested even, but it scares me. |
1:52.4 | I'm Zade Ares Dorn, host of the new podcast, Mother Country Radicals, and I was born underground. |
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