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SLA and the WUO
The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) and Weather Underground Organization (WUO) were terror groups that impacted the US consciousness in the 1960s and 1970s. Their activities were violent and oriented towards changing the government and society overall.
The Symbionese Liberation Army was a revolutionary group that emerged from the counterculture movement of the 1960s. The group's goals were to overthrow the US government and to establish a socialist society. The SLA achieved notoriety in 1974 when they kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst. Hearst later joined the group and took part in several of their criminal activities, including bank robberies (Rahaim & Matusitz, 2020). The SLA came to an end in 1975 after a shootout with the FBI in which six members of the group were killed. While the SLA did not achieve their ultimate goal of overthrowing the government, they did succeed in raising awareness of some of the injustices faced by members of society.
The Weather Underground Organization was a radical left-wing militant group that operated in the United States from 1969 to 1977. The group's stated goal was to overthrow the U.S. government through the use of violence and terrorism. The WUO was founded by a group of students at the University of...…brainwashing, it was ultimately dismantled by law enforcement. In contrast, the WUO was never able to mount a successful attack and eventually faded away. Both groups were sensational and relied on sensational and revolutionary ideas to promote themselves. However, neither organization had much lasting power beyond the strange counter-cultural times of the 1970s, and both went away after a while. They were like products of a revolutionary era in American change in the 20th century, fleeting and strange in the extreme.
In conclusion, the SLA and the WUO were like two sides of the same radical coin, the one promoting extremism and feminism, and the…
References
McEneaney, S. (2021). “Not picketing in front of bra factories”: Marxism, feminism, andthe Weather Underground. In Marxism and America (pp. 170-194). Manchester University Press.
Rahaim, A., & Matusitz, J. (2020). Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army(SLA): an examination through differential association theory. Journal of applied security research, 15(3), 408-422.
Rocha, M. (2020). The Weatherwomen: Militant Feminists of the Weather Underground.
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