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Weather
Report
A
Review of The Weather Underground
By
JOSEPH RAMSEY
Directed by Bob Siegel, and Sam Green,
nominated for a 2003 Oscar, (and now finally available on DVD)
Weather
Underground hauntingly chronicles and contextualizes
the 'life and death' of the Weathermen (later the Weather Underground),
a radical left splinter-sect from Students for a Democratic Society
(SDS). In 1969, enraged by US military genocide in Southeast
Asia, and frustrated at the failure of the more pacifist anti-war
movement to stop the war, the Weathermen split from the broader
student anti-war movement and SDS to 'bring the war home.' They
took their name from the Bob Dylan lyric, "You don't need
a weatherman to tell which way the wind's blowing" and began
from the political premise (to put it bluntly) that all rich
and most working-class white people within the US were complicit
with the US war crimes in Southeast Asia, and indeed were 'the
enemy' in their tolerance of an intolerable, imperialist status
quo. After publicly breaking with SDS, the Weathermen challenged
the Chicago police to street combat in what were known as the
"Days of Rage," and-after that didn't go so well-formed
secret revolutionary cells and went underground in cities
across the US. (Hence the name-change.)
Imagining themselves as the
white rebel allies of revolutionary (I am tempted to write real
revolutionary) organizations like the Black Panther Party, as
well as third world struggles for national liberation, the Weathermen
hoped to spark black people and working-class youth into a domestic
uprising against the US government. For more than a decade,
their members waged guerilla war against symbols of American
power, bombing the D.C. Capitol building, and the offices of
the New York Police Department, among other targets.
Articulate, young, well-educated
and media savvy, the group became cult icons to the some in the
student counterculture, while serving as poster-children for
Nixon's crusade against domestic 'anarchy.' (Fred Hampton of
the Chicago Black Panther Party, on the other hand, criticized
the
Weathermen as 'opportunistic, individualistic, anarchistic, and
Custer-istic.' For Hampton, the Revolution was a community process
of building, mobilizing and organizing for change, not simply
a demolishing of 'the system' as it stands.)
After an accidental bomb-explosion
killed three of their members (the only three people that ever
died as a direct result of WU actions) the Weathermen revised
their bombing philosophy, vowing to target only empty
buildings in symbolic response for acts of US imperialism, aggression,
and injustice. This bombing campaign they kept up all the way
into the early 1980s, by which time the group had gradually dissolved,
with many members of the group re-emerging from hiding. Some
returned to serve prison sentences, others to freedom, some to
repent, others to continue lives of progressive action.
The narrative of the documentary
The Weather Underground strings together gritty, previously
unseen film, television, and radio footage, pausing at regular
intervals to bring us the comments, remembrances, and reflections
of a number of the original historical participants: including
former members of the Weather Underground-both repentant and
unrepentant--, as well as an FBI agent who was attempting to
capture them, and Todd Gitlin, a former President of SDS who
still fumes at the memory of how the left-sect Weathermen helped
to split and to marginalize the broader student anti-war movement
in 1969.
In clear sympathy for the
anti-imperialist perspective--though not for the terrorist
tactics of its subjects-- The Weather Underground maintains
a balanced, non-manipulative, and non-didactic tone. Though
its subjects engaged in guerilla warfare for decades, the film
forgoes the -often comical-guerilla 'gotcha' tactics of Michael
Moore, for a more subtle and multi-layered, multi-perspective
approach that seriously poses questions and critically contextualizes
events, without providing easy answers.
In our culture, it takes a
lot for a documentary-let alone a politically left-wing one-to
reach a mass audience. And so as I was contemplating this article
several months back, right as The Weather Underground
was being shamefully passed over for the Oscar-the winning director
of Fog of War, Errol Morris, all too tentatively taking
up Michael Moore's anti-war mantle from last year-describing
the war in Iraq as possibly another 'rabbit hole' like Vietnam-for
a moment I despaired. After all, what movie theatres would bother
showing a left-wing documentary unless it was an official "award-winner"?
Still now I wonder to what extent Fog of War has obscured this
even more crucial anti-war documentary.
That WU didn't win isn't
exactly surprising of course. For though the film was widely
praised --the New York Times, for instance, called it
a "terrifically smart and solid piece of film-making"-there
remained to my reading-even in positive reviews-a resistance
to its key left-wing messages. In fact most of the dozen or
so reviews that I read in researching this article did their
best to avoid confronting the toughest questions posed by the
film, instead reading it principally in terms of the horrifying
and yet fascinating tale of Weathermen 'terrorism.'
In our post-911 era, when
the 'war on terrorism' is invoked to justify just about every
kind of government action from the invasions of privacy to the
one in Iraq, it shouldn't surprise me that-however deeply impressed
by the film they were-most mainstream reviewers interpret the
film primarily as a 'cautionary tale' of how idealism may descended
into terrorism, a story of how the Left's obsession with the
violence of US foreign policy eventually transformed them into
the 'evil which it deplored.' In fact, film-maker Sam Green
has told Alternet.org in an interview that "the alienating
danger of thinking you have THE answer to this immensely difficult
challenge [the challenge of stopping the war, or of opposing
US imperialism] is one important aspect of the WU story
for people to consider." Surely there are be elements of
the militant ultra-left that today may benefit from this piece
of wisdom.
But such a 'cautionary' response
to the film, while partially true, and certainly understandable
post-911, remains blind to the works' most powerfully resonant,
and continuingly relevant, insights: chiefly, that the vast majority
of the political violence of this era-as in ours-was wrought
by the US government-not by anti-government radicals,
and that this has been true not only in Southeast Asia and around
the world, but even within the US of A. The film quotes
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.--"the most dangerous man in America"
according to the FBI at the time-in his 1967 speech denouncing
the US as "the largest purveyor of violence in the world,"
and it validates his claim, not only with shocking video footage
and staggering statistics from the brutal air and land attacks
in Southeast Asia (which killed 2-5million), but with just-as-shocking
footage of Black Panther Fred Hampton's blood-stained bedroom
moments after he and fellow Panther Mark Clark were assassinated
by Chicago PD in 1969. (Indeed the Chicago Panthers had been
labeled by J. Edgar Hoover as the biggest 'threat' to the 'internal
security of the US" precisely because, while espousing
a practical revolutionary anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist
program they had remained deeply hostile to violence-working
to end racial gang wars in their city-and had abstained from
the violent rhetoric of radicals like the Weathermen.)
Among other episodes, the documentary
details how the Weathermen-by stealing FBI files and distributing
them to the media-helped to expose the FBI's systematic infiltration,
disruption, and repression of the entire left-including the Black
Panthers-through the Counter-Intelligence Program, or COINTELPRO.
Thus while Malcolm X has become infamous for his out-of-context
phrase 'By any means necessary,' the film shows that it was the
US government that truly put this phrase into practice
in its cynical and often deadly efforts to destroy the radical
movements in this country.
All of this 'contextual' footage
not only makes the overly zealous reaction of Weathermen more
comprehensible to the post-modern viewer, it also disrupts the
moral simplicity of liberal or conservative interpretations of
the film as a one-sided 'warning' about the dangers of radicalism.
Such anti-radical interpretations tend to imply that the 'safe'
and 'moral' way to prevent such leftist excess is to stick to
the conformist 'center' of US political discourse, a place that
this film makes clear is far from 'pure.'
Sam Green himself has stated
that he's "much more interested in moral ambiguity, thanin
moral certainty." And indeed the final moments of The
Weather Underground trouble any 'pure' political stance,
leaving us instead with the echoing words of middle-aged Mark
Rudd, an ex-Weathermen, while the screen casts us flying over
fertile green fields of Southeast Asia. As we listen to Rudd's
closing reflections, our field of vision is crisscrossed by American
missiles, fired from just beneath our line-of-sight, honing in
and exploding upon village roofs and jungle canopy; houses and
trees burst into flame. While we look out from the chopper,
Rudd admits to the microphone that he is ashamed of some of what
he did in the Weathermen, and that the terrorist-style approach
was wrong and ineffective. Yet he closes by saying that what
he still believes they were right about one thing: the
knowledge that the United States Government, the government under
which we live, was and remains today the most violent and destructive
military power on earth. "This knowledge we couldn't handle.
It was just too big." Rudd says, "We didn't know what
to do." This problem, of 'what to do with this knowledge'
still burns in his stomach to this day, he tells us. To this
day, as the houses still burn. Fade to black.
The tragedy of the Weathermen,
as it comes through the film, is that though they possessed this
knowledge, they lacked faith in the average American's ability
to come to grasp it, and lacked a program to teach and to empower
people to challenge systems of domination for themselves. The
example of the Black Panthers, feeding poor city kids free breakfasts,
offering political education classes to working-class adults,
and vowing to defend the community against police harassment
and 'pig' terror-alas they were not ready for the extent of the
repression that was to be aimed at them-comes subtly through
as an alternative, and more politically viable revolutionary
practice.
In the end however, the question
that WU leaves us with thus is not just 'How could all
this happen?'-the question of immediate interest for many mainstream
commentators-but rather 'What do we do with this terrible,
burning knowledge?' What do we do here in the belly of
the beast, while the United States government drops cluster bombs
on Iraqis and funds Israeli war crimes in the Palestinian territories,
contrives coups in Haiti, and Venezuela, and (God forbid) in
Cuba? It is here that the film leaves us, and here where meaningful
anti-imperialist theory and practice must begin.
Joseph Ramsey is a PhD. student in the English Department
at Tufts University in Medford, MA. His dissertation in progress
is tentatively entitled: Red Pulp: Radicalism and Repression
in Mass-Popular Fiction, 1930s-1960s. He can be reached at joseph.ramsey@tufts.edu.
The Weather Underground is
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