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Many of these students had spent the summerlearning about activism and facing tear gas inMaryland under the Student Non-violentCoordinating Coalition (SNCC). The coalition, theother major activist group during the decade,sponsored protests against segregation and drivesfor voting rights in the South. SNCC had the tightdiscipline and organization that SDS'sparticipatory democracy often undermined...
...SDSers were at the forefront of the freespeech movement at Berkeley. But SDS leadersrecognized the importance of the student strike of1964 and many met with Berkeley leaders to learnabout their activist techniques and offer support...
...wake of the Columbia strike, SDSorganizers grew bolder. And college students,seeing their administrations' willingness to useviolence against them, joined activist groups insteadily increasing numbers...
...protesters of 1969--in their opposition to the Vietnam War, their demands for severance of the University's ties with the Reserve Officers Training Corps and their call for the establishment of an Afro-American studies department--defined a historic, activist era at Harvard...
Take your pick, dreamer or dealmaker. Here is Thron, a sturdy, straightforward fellow who looks like one of those happy, hey-no-prob guys in the beer commercials. But he's an activist who gave up his senior year at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, to rumble around the country in a beat-up truck, presenting some 80 slide shows of his logging photos to environmental groups. It's all in support of a bill now in Congress, the Headwaters Forest Act, that would preserve most of the remaining old-growth redwood groves, which contain trees that have survived...