Word: gitlin
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...there were too many middle-aged people and not enough students in the audience at the archive. The decades-old wounds explored by The Weather Underground are still far from healing—a fact made clear by the scattered hisses that greeted figures from Richard Nixon to Todd Gitlin, a more moderate figure from the anti-war movement of the 1960s, as they appeared on screen...
...believes that this is the moment for the American Left to reclaim its country. But, Gitlin says, in order to reclaim America, the Left must first rescue it from administration officials like Ari Fleischer, John Ashcroft and Donald Rumsfeld...
...Gitlin now says that he sees “something with legs” emerging...
...Gitlin sees parallels, both in the peace movement, and in the urgency of the moment, with when he was at Harvard in the early 1960s organizing against nuclear weapons. In those early days, he says, campus activists were exhilarated to fill Lowell Lecture Hall during the Cuban Missile Crisis to talk about nuclear disarmament, even with Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking simultaneously elsewhere on campus...
...believe in reasoning back from what we know the world needs to be, for global warming not to overcome [us], for the world not to explode,” Gitlin says. “We need to reason back from these imperatives...