Eleanor Raskin
[4] On Saturdays, Annie Stein would dress up the children and stand on street corners, passing out literature to passersby.
[4] A family friend, Chavy Wiener [note 3] introduced her to communism by reading to her a Soviet children's book, The Story of Zoya and Shura.
[8] On August 28, 1964, they were married at the Foley Square Courthouse, and hours after the wedding, the couple boarded a plane to Manchester, England.
[15] The New York Times quoted her: "We've effectively shut down the college and cut down attendance at the university by half," said Mrs. Eleanor Raskin, an SDS spokesman who is a second-year law student at Columbia.
""[15] During the summer of 1969, Stein became a member of Weatherman organization and co-authored The Bust Book: What to Do Until the Lawyer Comes, with Kathy Boudin, Gus Reichbach and Brian Glick.
[17] In August 1969, Stein and fellow Weatherman members: Bernardine Dohrn, Ted Gold, Dianne Donghi and Diana Oughton traveled as SDS delegates to Cuba to meet with representatives of the Cuban and North Vietnamese governments.
[15][18][19] On September 3, 1969, Stein and about 75 women stormed a Pittsburgh high school called South Hills and participated in a "jailbreak" to advertise for the Days of Rage.
[20] Weather women spray painted "Ho Lives"[21][22] (in reference to spiritual and political North Vietnam leader, Ho Chi Minh who had recently died)[20] and "Free Huey" (Huey P. Newton was a member of the Black Panther Party who was incarcerated for a gunfight which left a police officer dead) on the school's main entrance doors.
I would like to use this critical year to employ my legal skills in aiding in the defense of political prisoners, such as the Conspiracy Eight[note 5] and others in Chicago.
[27] The FBI launched an extensive manhunt to capture affiliates of the organization, and Stein sought safety by relocating with Weather comrade Jeff Jones to the Catskills Mountains to establish a new network.
[29] The next trace of Jones and Stein was in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1979, when police raided an apartment where materials for making bombs were found.
Inuit Communities Petition at the Inter-American Commission On Human Rights, forthcoming in GOVERNMENT, LAW AND POLICY JOURNAL; The New York Renewable Portfolio Standard: Case Study in Process and Substance, 16 ENV.
[35] On August 28, 1964, Eleanor Stein married Jonah Raskin at the Foley Square Courthouse and hours later boarded a plane to Manchester, England.
[9] After the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, Stein disappeared with Jeff Jones in the Catskills Mountains,[28] where they fell in love.
[39] Thai Jones wrote a book released in 2004 called A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience which chronicled his parents' experiences with Weatherman.
