Bill Ayers

Today—March 6, 2026—is the 56th anniversary of the terrible explosion in the basement of a townhouse in Greenwich Village, New York that killed three of our Beloveds and marked the beginning of our fugitive days. We pause today—as we do everyday—to remember Diana Oughton, Ted Gold, and Terry Robbins. Your courage is legendary; your freedom dreams are eternal. We will love you all/ways.

So happy to have shared so many struggles with them! Not as fleet afoot but glad we’re still able to keep on keepin’ on. 

…..B.

Vijay Pershad:

Last night in Chicago, with my old friends Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn – you do need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows – as well as others, including the great journalist Juan González of Democracy Now!. We were going through the book of photographs by Richard Avedon, when we decided to make new portraits, Juan with his picture as a member of the Young Lords and Bernardine as a young radical from Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). These are long-distance runner radicals, still going, still pushing, still sure of the outcome – humanity.