The Company They Keep: Movie 2013

Robert Redford and Shia Lebouf along with Julie Christie, Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte and others round out this movie. It is about former members of the weather underground who have been hiding from the law for 30 years. I believe it was written in 2003 so likely it is taking place around those times. Redford is always in very thoughtful movies and this was no exception.

It reminded me of being a young adult in the late 1960s and early 1970s. (I was 21 in 1969). So, I remember meeting people in college that sort of thought in this direction. Of course they were one end of the political spectrum. But in college in those times  politics were very diverse because political correctness hadn't strangled college campuses yet or muzzled free thought yet in our nation or around the world. Then all people were allowed to have as individualistic opinion as possible even when they almost died for that opinion to the left or to the right. This isn't the case on college campuses anymore. Diversity no longer exists like it did then on campuses in the U.S. for extreme leftists or rightists. The lack of  useful and real debate makes all people less informed and therefore more ignorant as a direct result. And Ignorance is dangerous to the survival of our democracy long term. This is a very useful movie to see to better understand those times in America in order to prevent more college students being shot by U.S. soldiers or police on college campuses in the future like they were at Kent state and other places then.

Weather Underground - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Weather Underground Organization (WUO), commonly known as the Weather Underground, was an American radical left organization founded on the Ann ...

‎Bill Ayers - ‎Chicago Seven - ‎Weather Underground - ‎Bernardine Dohrn

1. Kent State shootings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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   The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre) occurred at Kent State University in the U.S. city of Kent, Ohio, and ...

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2. the May 4 shootings - Kent State University Main Page

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   In The Ends of Power, Haldeman (1978) states that the shootings at Kent State began the slide into Watergate, eventually destroying the Nixon administration.

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