Word: build
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must give up the community of the nation's establishment in favor of a community of hippie-radicals, creating a new life-style in which the best aspects of the hippie movement can be fused with the best of the radical. Supak urges "We must start to build counter institutions...
...travelling through the rural "niggertowns" finding people who had been denied the Food Stamps and welfare they were entitled to, by discriminatory white officials. Constantly aware that their work had to continue beyond the summer that the Northern students working for SRRP could spend in Alabama, SRRP tried to build local welfare rights organizations to carry on the fight against the white officials...
...into the world not cheerful, but determined. Our task is clear--it is for us to build a movement to implement the ideals that you have taught us. Our first objective, obviously, must be to bring our troops home from Vietnam immediately. This is, of course, an issue of crucial importance to all Americans, and in fact to all the world, but the class of 1968 faces it with painful immediacy. I believe it is fair to say that our class, almost to a man, opposed in some way our government's policies in Asia. Many of us go further...
While somewhat of a paper organization at this point, the NDC will meet in Minneapolis in early October to build and organize; in December a general conference to plan policies is anticipated. If the NDC lives up to its founders expectations, it will be a major force in shaping policy when the Democrats take up the role of the opposition this January. Only later as 1970 draws closer will its partisan electoral nature become more noticeable...
...machine states like Illinois, New York, and New Jersey, however, CDC-type groups are ineffective. The liberals must either work within the old party structure to take it over--not build a stronger parallel structure within the party as in California--or give up and form a new party. This hasn't been very effective in the past because liberals, whether because of their suburban anti-partisan phobia or for some other reason, continually shy away from the drudgery of precinct-leaderdom. In Pennsylvania and New York significant reform groups have risen many times, but they never worked long enough...