Bill Ayers

We have a different name for the war we’re fighting now—now we call it the war on terrorism, then they called it the war on communism. My parents were all dedicated to fighting U.S. imperialism around the world. I’m dedicated to the same thing.
– Chesa Boudin

When his parents Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert were imprisoned in 1981, Chesa Boudin was 14 months old. His parents’ comrades, Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, raised him from infancy. Boudin, a Yale University graduate and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, won a Rhodes Scholarship in 2002.

Thanks to Tamar for pointing to Bill Ayers’ blog. As I struggle to match my pacifism with my patriotism, I look at Ayers as an example of a committed activist, and at Chesa Boudin as evidence of the strength and warmth and love in that commitment.

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