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Talking It Out

Introducing Mother Country Radicals

Talking It Out

Telepictures TV | Warner Bros.

Society & Culture, Relationships

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Zayd Dohrn was born underground - his parents were radicals and counter-culture outlaws, on the run from the FBI. Now Zayd takes us back to the 1970s, when his parents and their young friends in the Weather Underground Organization declared war on the United States government. They brawled with riot cops on the streets of Chicago, bombed the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, broke comrades out of prison, and teamed up with Black militant groups to rob banks, fight racism - and help build a revolution. All episodes of Mother Country Radicals are available on the Audacy app or wherever you get to your podcasts. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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