Actions
October 14, 1970 - The Women's Brigade bomb the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and is conducted in solidarity with Angela Davis, a political activist who had recently been arrested. The bombing is considered to be the first action taken by the Brigade. The women choose an institution tied to the Vietnam War as their target in order to contest the current notion among some feminists that Vietnam was not a women's issue.
July 24, 1973 - A Collective Letter to the Women's Movement is released by the Brigade as an attempt to engage the women's movement in debate around feminist politics and how it relates to other struggles. It is also meant to denounce Jane Alpert who was temporarily provided sanctuary by Weather cells whiles she was underground as a result of non-Weather related bombings in New York. When Alpert re-surfaced, she denounced the Weather Underground Organization and armed struggle.
March 6, 1974 - The Women's Brigade bomb the San Francisco HEW (Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare) offices. WUO states that this is in honor of International Women's Day (March 8) and in remembrance of Weatherman members Diana Oughton, Ted Gold and Terry Robbins. The Brigade argues in its communiqué for women to take control of daycare, health care, birth control and other aspects of women's daily lives. This was the final bombing carried out by the all-women group which had by now abandoned the "Proud Eagle Tribe" name.
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“In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain—that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
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