[News] Lessons and Legacies of the Weather Underground: Bay-area release of “Outlaws of America”

[Anti-Imperialist News]

Lessons and Legacies of the Weather Underground:
Bay-area release of “Outlaws of America”
Featuring writer-activist Dan Berger and ex-Weather Underground members

Tuesday, August 8
7:30 p.m.
AK Press warehouse (www.akpress.org <http://www.akpress.org/> )
674-A 23rd St, Oakland CA. 510.208.1700.
(b/w MLK and San Pablo, near 19th St BART and West Grand exit of 80/980)

To celebrate the release of “Outlaws of America,” 
join former Weather Underground members and 
historian Dan Berger in a discussion about the 
history, politics, and lessons of one of the most 
famous groups to come from the 1960s movements. 
This special event takes an open, honest and 
critical look at a group that initiated a bombing 
campaign at the height of ‘60s radicalism to 
fight racism, war, and capitalism—and what 
significance this group has to offer today’s world.

About “Outlaws of America”:
“Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and 
the Politics of Solidarity” (AK Press, 2006), 
brings to life the motivations and actions of 
America’s most famous renegades, who bombed their 
way into history. Through detailed and original 
research, Dan Berger offers a nuanced and 
compelling portrait of the group that risked 
everything in opposition to war and racism. 
Culled from dozens of in-depth interviews with 
former Weather Underground members, as well as 
with civil rights activists, Black Panthers, 
Young Lords, and others-- many of whom speak 
about their experiences publicly here for the 
first time. This explosive, engaging, and timely 
book uncovers the untold story of the Weather 
Underground, from its incendiary beginning to its 
tumultuous ending-never sparing a critical analysis of the group.

“Berger is a master historian and storyteller who 
manages to reveal and recreate what the lived 
experience of the sixties was like for a group of 
militant idealists who wanted to make a difference.” —Hernán Vera

“Hopefully, Dan Berger represents an emerging 
generation of radical activist scholars. In a 
meticulously researched study of the Weather 
Underground, Berger writes a gripping story, 
drawing important lessons for the younger 
generation of activists.” Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“We have waited a long time for a book like this.”—George Katsiaficas.

DAN BERGER is a writer, activist, and grad 
student in Philadelphia. He is the author of 
“Outlaws of America,” co-editor of “Letters From 
Young Activist” and a member of the 
anti-imperialist collective Resistance in 
Brooklyn. He has been involved in an array of 
radical movements and has been published in 
Clamor, Left Turn, and The Nation, among elsewhere.

This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. 
through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.

The Freedom Archives
522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 863-9977
www.freedomarchives.org 
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