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While tactics may differ, the aim of virtually all the groups is the same: having accepted at last the dictum that it cannot win the hearts and minds of people through violence, the movement hopes to radicalize the population through organization and political education. In Berkeley, for example, radicals are putting up a slate for mayor and city councilmen in the spring elections. Members of this "April Coalition" have already succeeded in placing on the ballot a measure that would decentralize police powers and give them over to neighborhoods within the community. Another, even more old-fashioned radical activity...
...more than a decade, young radicals have seized brief, Warholesque fame with bullhorns and sometimes with their bodies. Many of them have now disappeared into a reclusive existence at home or exile abroad. Consider: Mark Rudd underground with the Weatherman. Stokely Carmichael in self-imposed exile in Guinea. Fiery Berkeley Communist Bettina Aptheker in a house in San Jose to rear her child and write a book. Former S.D.S. President Carl Oglesby writing songs on a Vermont farm and lecturing at M.I.T. John Lewis, S.N.C.C. co-founder who once promised to sweep the civil rights movement "through the South...
Among the radicals who once fleetingly held center stage is Anthony Tankersley, a former Berkeley graduate student convicted of the Sept. 1, 1968, terrorist bombing of a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. high-tension tower. Tankersley, the son of a Navy officer, then fled to join the U.S. expatriate community in Canada. For 18 months, Tankersley and his wife Susan re-examined their political philosophy. As a result, last February he turned himself in to federal authorities as his own "statement against violence" and is now serving a one-to five-year sentence in a California prison. From his cell, Tankersley...
...members of the counterculture. In fact, they represent the end of much of the movement's dream. In that dilemma, some straight jobs have become acceptable. "Driving cabs is the In thing for hippies right now in New York," says the underground cartoonist Mad John Peck. In Berkeley, the freaks have formed their own cab company, and the cabs are psychedelically painted bombs navigated solely by longhairs. Being a letter carrier is also acceptable, and mailmen with Prince Valiant cuts abound. Some straight newspapers like the Boston Globe have allowed invasions of freak reporters, and "a lot of freaks...
Speakers at a teach-in scheduled at Yale for the 22nd include Averill Harriman, Ramsey Clark, Allard K. Lowenstein and Ronald V. Dellums, first-term black Congressman from Berkeley, California...