Bill Ayers, arriving in Toronto to lecture on inner-city education, has been denied entry to Canada. [more inside]
posted by bicyclefish on Jan 19, 2009 - 127 comments

Before it was a website, the Weather Underground[google video, 90 mins] was an off-shoot militant wing of the Students for a Democratic Society. It was responsible for a series of bombings of government buildings, banks and corporate HQ's, as well as Timothy Leary's breakout from prison. They eventually turned themselves in, but few were convicted of any crime, due to misconduct by federal authorities tasked with investigating them. [previously]
posted by empath on Oct 11, 2008 - 81 comments