Is Ann Rudd related to Mark Rudd, a founder of the Weather Underground?

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In the summer of 1981 — between Occidental College to Columbia University — Obama traveled around the world. He visited his mother and sister Maya in Indonesia.

He then traveled to Pakistan and visited the home of Hasan Chandio, an Occidental schoolmate, in the city of Larkana. Obama then traveled to Hyderabad, in Southern India, to visit the home of Vinai Thummalapally, who had been Obama’s room-mate at Occidental.

Obama eventually arrived in Manhattan and moved into an apartment in Spanish Harlem. He lived alone there. After a while the landlord turned off the apartment’s heat, apparently because Obama had stopped paying his rent or because the landlord decided to evict him for some other reason.

Therefore Obama was compelled to move into another apartment, which he shared with a Pakistani named Sohale Hal Siddiqi, who was a drug addict. Obama had become acquainted with Siddiqi through the Pakistanis who had been his Occidental schoolmates. While Obama lived with Siddiqi, they had lots of money to visit bars, pick up women and generally party. Eventually, however, Obama moved out and lived like a monk by himself, and Siddiqi descended disasterously into further drug addiction.

I suppose that Obama moved in with Siddiqi during the winter of 1981-82. Since Obama moved because his landlord had turned off his heat, the weather must have been cold. The partying with Siddiqi perhaps affected Obama’s studies adversely, and so Obama decided at the end of that school year (after the spring of 1982) to move out and stop partying and live like a studious monk.

Meanwhile, after May 1982, Bernardine Dohrn was jailed because she refused to testify to a grand jury about the Brinks robbery. Ayers stayed home and took care of the two children.

I speculate that these circumstances might have brought Ayers and Obama together. They both found themselves rather alone and in situations where they felt determined to reform themselves drastically. In general, both became extremely interested in the process of personal education and reform.

Perhaps they had known each other previously or perhaps they became acquainted during this period. When they collaborated in writing “Dreams of My Father” several years later, however, they obscured their relationship.

Did Kathy Boudin, who occupied a Manhattan townhouse, have any job at all?

Is the explanation just family wealth? Or did the Weatherman make its money by trafficking in drugs?

In a previous Belmont Club thread we discussed the Pakistan connections that involved Obama during this period when he moved to New York to attend Columbia University. Obama arrived in Manhattan direct from a round-the-world vacation that included a rather long stop in Pakistan. Then when Obama arrived in Manhattan, he intended to move into an apartment that he intended to occupy alone during the school year. How did he intend to pay for it?

Obama was being recruited for such a position by “Marty Kauffman,” whose real name was Gerald Kellman, an employee of Chicago’s Calumet Community Religious Conference (ccrc), who was looking for a community organizer to run the group’s inner-city arm, the Developing Communities Project (DCP).
http://www.pickensdemocrats.org/info/TheAgitator_070319.htm

I speculate that Obama consulted Ayers about Kauffman/Kellman’s offer. In that conversation Ayers told Obama about the Hudson River flowing successfully in two directions. Obama expressed an interest in that story, so Ayers arranged for a Black woman and her son to show Obama that particular part of the river.

Later, when Ayers ghost-wrote Obama’s book, he changed the story so that Obama met the woman and her son near the river by chance.

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(mostly from comments 103 and 117)

Son Zayd Atheola Dohrn/Zayd Douglas was born on April 26, 1977, in San Francisco.

Ayers and Dohrn moved to NYC sometime in 1978, renting an apartment at 520 W 123rd in December, 1979, where Malik was born on Feb. 1, 1980. They gave their previous address as a studio apartment at 457 W 46th. (Which may or may not be correct). They told acquantances they had moved from California. In NYC they used the names Christine Louise Douglas/Lou Douglas and Anthony J. Lee/Tony Lee.

During those two years in NYC, Dohrn worked as a part-time waitress at a restaurant/bar named “Teachers,” and from September 1979 until shortly before the birth of Malik on 2/1/80, at Broadway Baby, 2244 Broadway, near 82nd St.

Ayers first worked as a baker at The Bread Shop, a health food bakery at Broadway and LaSalle Street, before going to work at BJs Kids for $150/week.

Ayers went to BJs Kids a preschool on 85th Street to enroll Zayd and is hired by the owner BJ Richards: “He’s magical with children,” Richards says. “The moment he left, my co-worker and I looked at each other and said, ‘He has to work here.”’

On or around Nov. 13, 1980, Ayers and Dohrn packed up the kids and moved, telling their employers they had to return to Chicago because of an illness in the family. (Although Federal charges had been dismissed due “prosecutorial misconduct,” they were actually going to surrender to state authorities, apparently pre-negotiated, on outstanding IL state charges relating to the “Days of Rage” in ‘69).

At this time also living in the Upper West Side is Kathy Boudin under the alias Lydia Adams/Lynn Adams. Her address is 50 Morningside Ave. Her roommate is Rita Jensen is a reporter for Stamford (Conn) Advocate.

August, 1980 Chesa Jackson Gilbert Boudin/C. Adams is born to Kathy Boudin and another Weatherman, David Gilbert. Kathy Boudin applies for and receives welfare under the name Lydia Adams.

In December 1980, after negotiations with authorities, Ayers and Dohrn resurface. They soon return to New York City.

Late summer of 1981: Obama transfers from Occidental to Columbia for his junior year and moves to NYC. He lives at 339 E. 94th St with roommate Sohale Siddiqi.

Oct 20, 1981: Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert commit triple murder in the Brinks Robbery. The get-away car was rented with personal identifcation stolen from customers of Broadway Baby.

May 18, 1982: The New York Times reports that Dohrn refuses to testify to Grand Jury about the robbery. For refusing to testify, Dohrn is sentenced to jail for contempt. In October 1982, on a weekend furlough she and Ayers are married. The telephone directory lists their residence as 243 W 15th St. Ayers is enrolled at Bank Street Education College, near Columbia University.

Fall of 1982: Obama starts his senior year at Columbia. His address remains 339 E. 94th. per telephone directory.

1983: Obama graduates from Columbia. His address remains 339 E 94th St, per the telephone directory. He starts work at Business International Corporation.

1984: Obama works for NYPIRG at City College. Address is still shown as 339 E 94th.

Ayers received his degree in Early Childhood Education from Bank Street College. He enters Teachers College at Columbia University.

Dohrn takes the NY bar Exam in Feb. 1984 and passes but is refused admission to the NY State Bar due to character and fitness concerns. She is a legal clerk at the New York office of the Chicago Law Firm of Sidley Austin, LLP.

1985 Obama moves to Chicago to take a position as a community organizer.

Ayers continues at Teachers College, Columbia University and Dohrn continues her employment at Sidley Austin in NYC.

In 1988 Ayers receives his degree and he and Dohrn return to Chicago.

BJ Richards moved to Chicago in the late 1980s and first lives at the 2473 North Albany Address (since vacated by Ayers and Dohrn) and then at an address in Oak Park (at duplex owned by John Ayers and Judi Minter). She runs a preschool/day care with John Ayers’ wife Judi Minter.

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(Comment 111)

The father of Rail Odinga (Barack Obama’s cousin in Kenya) father was a man called Odinga Odina – he was back in the mid to late 60’s the vice pres of Kenya – he also came to the US on a state visit – while in either LA or San Fran. he met some of the Panthers and they were impressed by him – so that is why Burns called himself Sekou Odinga. There was also a song think by Dylan called Odinga Odinga.

The chances of Bill Ayers ever appearing before the House for confirmation hearings concerning his fitness for some appointive office are nonexistent. He might be allowed in at 1:00 AM through the tunnels but that all-is-forgiven photo op with other members of some blue ribbon panel of educational reform is more fevered delusions than hoped for possibilities. Even the NYT might have to run that photo of him in the Cuban baseball jersey from when Ayers was channeling the indefatigable George Galloway.

And the very odd thing will be this notion of ascending to the presidential choir will only indicate how much Ayers has lost touch with reality if he thinks it is a possibility.

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It’s 1981, New York City. Barack Obama is residing two blocks away from Weather Underground leader William Ayers. …. supposedly he transferred from Occidental College and completed undergraduate studies at Columbia University. ….

At Occidental, Obama belonged to Students for Economic Democracy (SED), a radical socialist “cousin” organization to Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), of which the Weather Underground was an off-shoot. Did Obama continue his SED membership at Columbia? ….

In 1981, former Weather Underground members along with a few former Black Panthers are arrested in association with the robbery of a Brinks armored truck 20 miles north of Manhattan. …. One of the Weather Underground members arrested for the Brinks crime is Kathy Boudin, along with her boyfriend David Gilbert. Boudin is sentenced to 20 years-to-life. Boudin and Gilbert leave behind a 14-month-old son, Chesa Boudin, who ends up being raised by Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn while his parents live in prison.

One of the former Black Panthers arrested in connection with the Brinks robbery is Nathaniel Burns, a member of the Black Liberation Army. Burns is also known as Sekou Odinga. Burns/Odinga is sentenced to 25 years-to-life for attempted murder of a police officer. (ODINGA, sound familiar?)

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The name Odinga is interesting because Obama’s family in Kenya is related to the Odinga family.