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Zayd’s father Bill Ayers joins the Weathermen, and he and his friends teach themselves to be revolutionaries, gearing up to build bombs and brawl with police on the streets of Chicago.
For more of the story, check out:
- Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Carlos Marighella, The Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla (1969)
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