Howard Machtinger, a former member of Students For a Democratic Society and a founding member of Weatherman (later Weather Underground), is a retired teacher, but remains politically active and still believes in the need for social and political transformation--hopefully in the spirit of the “organizing tradition.”
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You Say You Want a Revolution
A founding member of the Weather Underground looks back at an organization unable to come to terms with its own violence.
Howard Machtinger
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