BILL AYERS - PRAIRIE FIRE

BILL AYERS
PRAIRIE FIRE: A bit of history, some links and its connection to today
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https://archive.is/b6a03
Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung
A SINGLE SPARK CAN START A PRAIRIE FIRE
January 5, 1930
[This was a letter written by Comrade Mao Tse-tung in criticism of certain pessimistic views then existing in the Party.]
“2. The subjective forces of the revolution have indeed been greatly weakened since the defeat of the revolution in 1927. The remaining forces are very small and those comrades who judge by appearances alone naturally feel pessimistic. But if we judge by essentials, it is quite another story. Here we can apply the old Chinese saying, "A single spark can start a prairie fire." In other words, our forces, although small at present, will grow very rapidly. In the conditions prevailing in China, their growth is not only possible but indeed inevitable, as the May 30th Movement and the Great Revolution which followed have fully proved. When we look at a thing, we must examine its essence and treat its appearance merely as an usher at the threshold, and once we cross the threshold, we must grasp the essence of the thing; this is the only reliable and scientific method of analysis.”
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“The saying, "A single spark can start a prairie fire", is an apt description of how the current situation will develop. We need only look at the strikes by the workers, the uprisings by the peasants, the mutinies of soldiers and the strikes of students which are developing in many places to see that it cannot be long before a "spark" kindles "a prairie fire”
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PRAIRIE FIRE AND BILL AYERS
“A group of anti-American counter-revolutionaries led by an organization named the Weather Underground had drafted and circulated an organizational manifesto titled Prairie Fire—The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism and a Political Statement of the Weather Underground. It was a communist manifesto written by devoted communists for devoted communists. In their words (not ours), “Here is Prairie Fire, our political ideology—a strategy for anti-imperialism and revolution inside the imperial U.S.”
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“Its creators wrote, “ Prairie Fire is written to communist-minded people, independent organizers and anti-imperialists; those who carry the traditions and lessons of the struggles of the last decate, those who join in the struggles of today.”
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“Again from Prairie Fire:
We are a guerrilla organization. We are communist women and men, underground in the United States for more than four years. We are deeply affected against US imperialism. Our intention is to disrupt the empire—to incapacitate it, to put pressure on the cracks, to make it hard to carry out its bloody functioning against the people of the world, to join the world struggle, to attack from the inside. Our intention is to engage the enemy—to wear away at him, to harass him, to isolate him, to expose every weakness, to pounce, to reveal every vulnerability. Our intention is to encourage the people—to provoke leaps in confidence and consciousness, to stir the imagination, to popularize power, to agitate, to organizer, to join in every way possible the people’s day-to-day struggles. Our intention is to forge an underground, a clandestine political organization engaged in every form of struggle, protected from the eyes and weapons of the state, a base against repression, to accumulate lessons, experience, and constant practice, a base from what to attack.”
The critical importance of that reference is shi: The people who wrote this manifesto almost 50 years ago are the people in control of the United States federal government today. These people are the anti-American counter-revolutionaries and this manifesto was their strategy for destroying the United States from within.”
—“Trumped: The New American Revolution” by JB. Williams and Timothy J. Harrington. Charters of Freedom Publishers, LLC. (2016) Available at COFBooks.com.
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Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_Fire_Organizing_Committee
http://archive.is/zQTZj
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Download at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/PrairieFire_201704
Prairie Fire
by The Weather Underground.
Published January 1, 1974
Topics Weather Underground, the weathermen, SDS, students for a democratic society, bill ayers, Radical Democracy
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REPRINT OF PRAIRIE FIRE
http://www.sds-1960s.org/PrairieFire-reprint.pdf
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https://archive.org/details/sds_papers
The SDS Papers - Prairie Fire & The Port Huron Statement
by Collectively Written By Various Members Of Students for a Democratic Society
Published April 21, 2009
Usage Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0
Topics Port Huron Statement, Prairie Fire, Weathermen, Social Justice, Activism, Politics, The Sixties, Students for a Democratic Society, S
PDFs of The Port Huron Statement, and the WeatherUnderground's Position Paper 'Prairie Fire' in 3 parts.
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Website is not available: prairiefire.org
Prairie Fire Organizing Committee
2502 West Division Street
Chicago, IL 60622-2804
773-278-6706
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Google Book Reference for Prairie Fire:
“Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues”
By Gus Martin
p. 393
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Cover of 'Prairie Fire'
http://i.imgur.com/yGFF0aT.jpg
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A card with the authors listed on it for PRAIRIE FIRE.
http://i.imgur.com/PlZCHTa.jpg
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"Published on May 21, 2013  Length 36:53
Larry Grathwohl went undercover for the FBI in the terrorist group the Weather Underground. He is interviewed on WNDB radio by Marc Bernier. Grathwohl talks about his personal experiences with Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn as they planned and executed terrorist bombings in the United States and their ties to Barack and Michele Obama."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9iwcyjmgZg
https://vid.me/HHTJ
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Published on Jul 6, 2015 Length 2:41
This is all unfolding right now. Open borders, sleeper cells, false flags. PREPARE! Famous quote by Larry Grathwohl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2JHHN1qhyQ
https://vid.me/JJmL
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It didn't click till I visited the website Marxists.org. Did anyone see the movie "REDS"? or read the book, "10 Days That Shook The World" by John Reed--of PORTLAND, OREGON? He's the only American buried at the Kremlin. Whoa. Is there a party in Portland next October??
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 I must add something I've talked about before. The videos in Venezuela with Bill Ayers and his "foster son," Chesa Boudin.
"TRANSCRIPT: CONVERSACION CON BILL AYERS Oct 6, 2006
Pedagogia Crítica y Revolución Bolivariana. Luis Bonilla-Molina y Bill Ayers.
Traducción: Chesa Boudin
Notes: Series on YouTube. Appears to be an organizational meeting In
Venezuela.
Is this the way Obama and Ayers “Organized?”
William AYERS does most of the talking. His foster son, Chesa Boudin, serves as translator. (A future imposition on
America?) Che Guevara􀀁s Portrait looms over, like a Marxist Jesus.
Part 1:
William Ayers is the one speaking in this transcription.
Ayers begins speaking:
“It's interesting. I began teaching in 1965 as part of a small freedom school associated with the Civil Rights movement.
It was a fortunate beginning because I understood very early that teaching and learning education is linked to social justice.
It was clear that the civil rights movement wanted to change the country. Butalso, to change our country, we had to change ourselves. We need to educate ourselves.
But of course, the civil rights movement never realized its ultimate goals of full equality, of full human rights, full dignity for all its citizens. But it did change a lot of people and it did change some institutions.
You know, I never changed my piece of junk. I think that revolutionary struggle…I think that political organizing always has a pedagogical engine." <---why education and controlling the curriculum is so essential to the whole movement.
 https://youtu.be/jDwHns0LetE  Published Oct. 6, 2006 Length 6:17
https://vid.me/SSQi
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 Part 2:
Ayers:
"But you can't spend your life regretting what you can't do or what you didn't do.
You have to put yourself down in the real world you find yourself, make an analysis, and move forward.
in fact, I think there is nothing more depressing than old revolutionaries longing for a ship that has already left the shore. I feel like the "sixties," the so-called sixties are mythologies. They weren't as great as some people claim, nor were they as horrible as some people claim. In fact, we didn't even think of them as the sixties."
********I don't remember in 1969 thinking, "Oh, no, it's over."
"Whatever we accomplished, whatever we learned, it was all a prelude to what we have to do right now."  Published Oct. 6, 2006 Length 4:29
 https://youtu.be/vYHdoY0lSds
https://vid.me/qqmI
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 These interviews that Tallulah Starr posted of Bill Ayers speaking with Centro Internacional Miranda in Venezuela is a 12 part series. Granted unless you speak Spanish you won't understand the person interviewing him but Ayers does speak in English. It is a fascinating insight into his vision of education of our youth and his radicalization of them and himself.
Ayers states in Video #6 that he tells his students "Be a socialist in your family. Be a socialist in society. Be a socialist in politics".
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAACB3997F4445BCF
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Ayers speaks of The Little Village School in Chicago
"In August 2001, the newly appointed CEO of Chicago Public Schools Arne Duncan reallocated funds to begin construction on the school."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Village_Lawndale_High_School_Campus
http://archive.is/0uMop
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 Ayer's also speaks of the Freedom Schools.
Freedom Schools were temporary, alternative free schools for African Americans mostly in the South. They were originally part of a nationwide effort during the Civil Rights Movement to organize African Americans to achieve social, political and economic equality in the United States. The most prominent example of Freedom Schools was in Mississippi during the summer of 1964.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Schools
http://archive.is/5ioGI#selection-53.0-75.27
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The history of the Highlander Folk School reflects the course of organized labor and Civil Rights movements in the South, as well as the struggles of southern activists between the 1930s and early 1960s. Established near Monteagle in 1932 by the Tennessee-born Myles Horton and a young Georgian named Don West, Highlander's programs were based upon the conviction that education could be used to help ordinary people build upon the knowledge they had gained from experience and work collectively toward a more democratic and humane society. This approach made the adult education center a source of inspiration and the most controversial school in modern Tennessee history.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030530071927re_/http://160.36.208.47:80/FMPro?-db=tnencyc&-format=tdetail.htm&-lay=web&entryid=H048&-find
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Highlander has provided training and education for the labor movement in Appalachia and throughout the Southern United States. During the 1950s, it played a critical role in the American Civil Rights Movement. It trained civil rights leader Rosa Parks prior to her historic role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, as well as providing training for many other movement activists including the members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Septima Clark, Anne Braden, Martin Luther King, Jr., James Bevel, Hollis Watkins, Bernard Lafayette, Ralph Abernathy and John Lewis in the mid- and-late 1950s. Backlash against the school's involvement with the Civil Rights Movement led to the school's closure by the state of Tennessee in 1961. It reorganized and moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, where it reopened, later becoming the Highlander Research and Education Center.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander_Research_and_Education_Center
http://archive.is/1Kfpb
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Digital Library of Georgia "Highlander Folk School : communist training school, Monteagle, Tenn. "
http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/meta/html/dlg/efhf/meta_dlg_efhf_efhf003.html?Welcome&Welcome
http://archive.is/JWF0W
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OVER 80 YEARS OF FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE

1907-1932—MYLES HORTON’S EARLY YEARS

July 9, 1905—Myles is born in Savannah, Tennessee.

Spring 1927— In his junior year at Cumberland University, Myles attends a YMCA conference in Nashville where he has his first contact with black and foreign students. He is upset that he cannot take a Chinese girl to a restaurant or enter a public library with a black friend.

Summer 1927—Myles spends the summer in Ozone, Tennessee, organizing vacation Bible schools for the Presbyterian church. He also holds meetings where community people discuss their problems. Unable to answer their questions, he gets them to share their experiences and discovers that they already have many of the answers. He later calls this experience the origin of Highlander.

1929-1930—Myles attends Union Theological Seminary in New York, studying with Reinhold

Niebuhr, who believes that society must be reformed to achieve “a social order based on the religion of Jesus.” Myles also visits the Henry Street Settlement and the Brookwood Labor

College, helps organize a International Ladies Garment Workers Strike, and observes a textile strike in Marion, North Carolina.

1930-1931– Myles attends the University of Chicago, where he studies with Robert Park in the sociology department. He is impressed by Park’s view that conflict can be used to encourage people to work for a better society, and by Lester Ward’s view that education requires action. He also meets Jane Adams and visits Hull House.

1931-1932—Myles travels to Denmark to visit the Danish folk schools, which played a vital role in revitalizing Danish culture and addressing the country’s social and economic problems in the late 1800s. He admires their informality, their close student-teacher interaction, and their use of culture as a tool for learning. While there, he decides to start a similar school in the South where teachers will work with both black and white students to address community problems.

1932-1940S—THE FOUNDING OF HIGHLANDER & THE LABOR YEARS

In 1932, Myles, Don West, Jim Dombrowski and others founded the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee. They focused first on organizing unemployed and working people, and by the late 1930s Highlander was serving as the de-facto CIO education center for the region, training union organizers and leaders in 11 southern states. During this period, Highlander also fought segregation in the labor movement, holding its first integrated workshop in 1944.

1950S-1960S—THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT & THE CITIZENSHIP SCHOOLS

Highlander’s commitment to ending segregation made it a critically important incubator of the Civil Rights movement. Workshops and training sessions at Highlander helped lay the groundwork for many of the movement’s most important initiatives, including the Montgomery bus boycott, the Citizenship Schools, and the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1961, after years of red-baiting and several government investigations, the state of Tennessee revoked Highlander’s charter and seized its land and buildings. The school reopened the next day as the Highlander Research and Education Center. From 1961-1971, it was based in Knoxville, and in 1972 it moved to its current location near New Market, Tennessee.

1970S-1990S—APPALACHIAN PEOPLE’S STRUGGLES & SUPPORTING LOCAL COMMUNITIES IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT

In the late 1960s and 1970s, Highlander played a vital role fostering organizing in Appalachia, supporting anti-strip mining and worker health and safety struggles, among other efforts. In the 1980s and 1990s, Highlander expanded its work to support grassroots groups fighting pollution and toxic dumping, and supported the emerging anti-globalization movement by sponsoring workshops on economic human rights and trade and globalization issues and by forging connections with international activists and organizers. In January 1990, Myles died of brain cancer

2000-PRESENT—TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY HIGHLANDER

Today, Highlander is continuing to fight for justice and equality, supporting organizing and leadership development among Latino immigrants and young people, encouraging the use of culture to enhance social justice efforts, and helping organizations in diverse constituencies develop new strategies and alliances.

We prioritized programming for organizing and leadership development ; strategic efforts and pro-grams to develop tools and mechanisms needed to advance multi-racial, inter-generational movement for social and economic justice in our region; supported and connected organizations from the Deep South, Appalachia, and immigrant communities; leading organization in the development and influ-ence in the field of cultural organizing.
Timeline - Highlander Research and Education Center
    Over 80 Years of Fighting for Justice 1907-1932—Myles Horton’s Early Years July 9, 1905—Myles is born in Savannah, Tennessee. Spring 1927— In his junior year at Cumberland University, Myles attends a YMCA conference in Nashville where he has...
http://highlandercenter.org/media/timeline/
http://archive.is/jHTsS
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Eleanor Roosevelt speaks on the front porch of Highlander School. The woman seated behind Ms. Roosevelt is May Justus, who, with her partner Vera McCampbell, was very involved with the school.
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N%3A4294963828-4294955414&dsRecordDetails=R%3AIM34378
http://archive.is/luupU
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PHOTO: SEPTEMBER 1957: Martin Luther King Jr., Pete Seeger, Charis Horton, Rosa Parks, and Ralph Abernathy at Highland
http://www.uawregion8.net/Activist-HOF/photos/MH-03.jpg
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PHOTO: ELEANOR ROOSEVELT AT HIGHLAND
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PHOTO: The folk singer Pete Seeger entertaining Eleanor at a Valentine's Day at Highland
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FBI report on the Weather Underground for Ayers, Bernie, and gang.
http://www.commieblaster.com/dl/Bill-Ayers-FBI-FOIA.pdf
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"The Left wants to bring down “white supremacy.” The phrase is leftist code for “America.”

Communists like Obama best buddy Bill Ayers have been whining about this supposed Caucasian paramountcy for decades. With his terrorist wife Bernardine Dohrn, Ayers wrote a book called Race Course Against White Supremacy.

The Left versus “white supremacy” Via Sandy Johnson
http://canadafreepress.com/article/the-left-versus-white-supremacy
http://archive.is/gQR13
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Via Mary Fanning - "This book series contains some 18 years of warning and analysis published within the U.S. Congress by an organization known as the Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare. During its remarkably long life, the Task Force issued hundreds of reports comprising thousands of pages of warnings and analyses of the growing specter of the Islamist movement, its increasingly violent nature, and its selection of the Western world as its ultimate target. The depth and breadth of the Task Force's analytical efforts were unparalleled, as were its productive capacity and broad product distribution efforts. The Task Force's astonishing knowledge of the gathering storm that finally broke over New York City and Washington on that fateful September morning is represented in these pages."
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