Ebook: Sing a Battle Song: the Revolutionary Poetry, Statements and Communiques of the Weather Underground 1970-1974

Editors' preface; acknowledgments; when hope and history rhyme*; revisiting the weather underground; from weather to climate; timeline; you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows; part i; Sing a Battle Song: Poems by Women in theWeather Underground Organization; contents; SONG; SISTERHOOD IS NOT MAGIC; WAITING*; FOR ASSATA SHAKUR*; PEOPLES' WAR; DAY OF THE MONSOON; SPIDER POEM; PRAIRIE JANE; IN MY STEEP AND SCARY PATH; RIDING THE SUBWAYS; FOR A TROUBLED SISTER; WOMANCHILD'S POEM; FOR OUR STREET; FOR A FRIEND WHO DIDN'T KNOW WHO I WAS; STRAIGHT TALK; FOR TWO SISTERS.;Outraged by the Vietnam War and racism in America, a group of young American radicals announced their intention to "bring the war home." The Weather Underground waged a low-level war against the U.S. government through much of the 1970s, bombing the Capitol building, breaking Timothy Leary out of prison, and evading one of the largest FBI manhunts in history.