The Weather Underground is a rubbed to the floor of the entrance of the building, International Telephone & Telegraph (ITT), located on Broad Street and William Street, in the financial center of New York. The title of the work, The Weather Underground, is a translation that alludes to the Weather Underground Organization (WUO), which orchestrated in 1973, the bombing of the building in retaliation for the involvement of ITT in the coup d'état in Chile that deposed president Salvador Allende and resulted in the establishment of the brutal dictatorship later. The WUO was formed, at the end of the sixties, by some members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a faction that believed that non-violent direct action was ineffective, and sought to strengthen its tactics. This rubbed, conducted in a private space, public access, appointment, reviews, and transports the action to the present.