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The Weather Underground Organization (WUO), commonly known as the Weather Underground, was a radical leftist militant terrorist Marxist organization active in the late 1960s and 1970s, founded on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan. It was originally called the Weathermen. The WUO organized in 1969 as a faction of the Anti anti-communist Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) largely composed of the national office leadership of SDS and their supporters. Beginning in 1974, the organization's express political goal was to create a revolutionary party to overthrow America.

Anthony Malcolm Daniels, also known by the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, is an English cultural critic, prison physician and psychiatrist. He worked in a number of Sub-Saharan African countries as well as in the East End of London. Before his retirement in 2005, he worked in City Hospital, Birmingham and Winson Green Prison in inner-city Birmingham, England.

Yoji Sato is a former Japanese handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Michael Costigan is a film and television producer. Costigan graduated from Brown University in 1990. He was a production executive at Columbia Pictures at Sony Pictures Entertainment, where he worked for nine years on films including Bottle Rocket (1996), The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), Gattaca (1997), Girl, Interrupted (1999), and Charlie's Angels (2000). He left Sony and worked as executive producer on Brokeback Mountain (2005). Costigan started a production company, Corduroy Films, in 2002. He then became president at Scott Free Productions from 2005 to 2012. Costigan left Scott Free to work full-time as a film producer. He started the production company COTA Films and signed a two-year deal with Sony.