in a special edition of the "new left notes" for the upcoming 1969 sds national convention, robbins and ten other sds members had created a manifesto for students to become revolutionaries. taking inspiration from bob dylan's track "subterranean homesick blues", robbins had played with the meanings of the line "you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" which later became the title for the weathermen's founding statement for their organization and developed the weathermen organization's identity.