America’s most wanted: my family on the run, part 2
Lives Less Ordinary

America’s most wanted: my family on the run, part 2

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 21, 202632 min
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When Zayd Ayers Dohrn was born his parents were fugitives. They were the leaders of the Weather Underground – a violent revolutionary group opposed to the Vietnam war. Most members were white, but they worked closely with radical black organisations opposing racism in the US, drawing attention to their cause through bombing campaigns, bank robberies, and jailbreaks. When Zayd’s younger brother came along his mother, Bernardine, decided it was time to hand herself in. They managed to do a deal and most of the charges she faced were dropped. However when Zayd was 5 Bernadine went to jail. Desp...

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I was in the house, and I was in the house, and I was in the house. The house was a big house. The house was a big house, and the house was a big house. The house was a big house.

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was unwilling to. And at the same time I used to smuggle in little pocket-sized children's books for her to read to me. We weren't allowed to bring anything into the visiting room but I would I would sneak in little books so that we could read at the table and I felt a sense of outlaw solidarity. I felt proud of myself

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for being able to break these little laws and kind of follow her example in that way. Zaid was five. His mum Bernardine went to jail in New York. She didn't have to be there, one word, and she could have been free, but for her it was a matter of

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