This article from the Chronicle of Higher Education by Maurice Isserman deals mostly with the relationship between Michael Harrington and Tom Hayden. Harrington famously lambasted Hayden following the release of the “Port Huron Statement” which was an early document of the Students for a Democratic Society. The article also deals with the unintended consequences of […]
Will the Left Ever Learn to Communicate Across Generations?
June 21st, 2008 1 Comment
Tags: Mark Rudd · Michael Harrington · SDS · Tom Hayden · Weathermen
Film Screening/New SDS at U of Chicago
March 3rd, 2008 No Comments
Introducing SDS:
Students for a Democratic Society
Film screening and discussion:
Columbia Revolt 1968
Thursday, March 6 7PM
University of Chicago
Harper Memorial Library room 103
1116 E. 59th St.
Come discuss the tasks for student political
organizing today, in light of the ’60s:
- What role in political and social change can
students play?
- How can students act politically beyond protest,
election campaigns and community service?
A […]
Tags: Columbia University · SDS · University of Chicago
Tribune Article about SDS Then and Now
July 31st, 2007 No Comments
chicagotribune.com - NATION
Times, faces change; struggle remains
New generation of activists re-form 1960s Students for a Democratic Society
By Leora Falk
Washington Bureau
July 31, 2007
WASHINGTON
In the newspaper photographs, they are frozen in time confronting police, taking to the streets, staging teach-ins and leading universitywide strikes. Now gray-haired, these members of the original Students for a Democratic
Society are teachers, […]
Tags: Anti War · Beth Blum · Bob Pardun · Carl Davidson · Days of Rage · Mark Tribe · New SDS · Pat Korte · re-enactments · SDS · Tom Hayden