(The weather underground child)Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground/

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https://www.npr.org/2026/05/18/nx-s1-5823595/zayd-ayers-dohrn-dangerous-dirty-violent-young

Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground

MAY 18, 20261:51 PM ET
HEARD ON FRESH AIR
Terry Gross

Zayd Ayers Dohrn
2026, WW Norton

Zayd Ayers Dohrn spent much of his childhood underground and on the run. His mother, Bernardine Dohrn, was a leader of the '60s radical student group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which opposed the war in Vietnam and racism. Along with Dohrn's father, Bill Ayers, she helped found the Weather Underground, a group committed to armed resistance against the government.

"From my very first memories, I knew that the FBI was chasing us," he says. "My parents tried to explain it in terms [like] we were like Robin Hood or we were like the Rebel Alliance in Star Wars. So I knew in the way a kid knows that our lives were precarious."

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The full line [from the song] is, "we are all outlaws in the eyes of America. We are obscene, lawless, hideous, dangerous, dirty, violent, and young." And that became kind of a rallying cry, not only for my parents, but for a big segment of the youth counterculture, this idea that we are all outlaws in a society that demonizes Black people, demonizes gay people, oppresses women, doesn't understand young people. And so that idea of being outlaws in your own country and of being dangerous, dirty, violent, and young really sums up a lot of what my parents stood for at the time.

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1. Thanks for the post! KNR

Very interesting story, especially in this time in our history. I had forgotten how violent some of our boomer brethren were. Feel sort of proud in a way.