Word: davenports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After several years of organizing, small collectives from all over came together at Davenport last month...
...dynamic in the American Left surfaced last week with the formation of the New American Movement (NAM), which attracted 450 people to its first program conference in Davenport, Iowa, over Thanksgiving week-end. NAM--a growing organization with more than 25 chapters around the country--began on the west coast last spring. Community organizers--some with projects several years old--sensed that they needed some type of national coordination, and they responded favorably when Michael Lerner. Thierrie Cook and Chip Marshall, West Coast radicals, sent out a statement calling for NAM's formation...
People of all kinds responded to the NAM statement and went to Davenport. Many, as previously mentioned, were ex-student radicals in their mid-twenties who now consider themselves part of the working class--white collar or blue collar--and have been organizing in communities on a variety of issues. Some of them were former SDS'ers--several people had been at Port Huron--but many were independent radicals who found NAM appealing because of its realism and openness...
...DAVENPORT, Iowa--The New American Movement (NAM) finished its conference in this industrial city yesterday, and the 450 delegates and observers returned to their home communities to "put socialism on the American agenda for the seventies...
...majority of the persons attending the conference were ex-student radicals who are now organizing in various working class communities. Traditional radical centers such as New York. Cambridge and Berkeley, Calif., were represented at the conference along with less likely centers such as Pittsburgh, Baltimore. Md. Minneapolis, Minn., and Davenport, Iowa, itself...