Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Chicago Eight-who include Seale, Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, and Jerry Rubin-are being tried for conspiracy to provoke a riot during the 1968 National Democratic Convention.
The Hayden Hall meeting featured Mark Rudd, a militant national leader of Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) SDS. One person was beaten, tables and chairs were damaged, some people were denied admittance, and the doors of the
The charge was made during an SDS press conference yesterday afternoon, called by national members of the WSA faction to make public a statement condemning recent Revolutionary Youth Movement (RPM) activities, particularly last Thursday's attack on the Center for International Affairs.
RYM is the group that walked out of the SDS national convention last June. The Weathermen, criticized during the press conference, are Rudd's militant followers in RYM, lately disavowed by less extremist members of the RYM faction.
The press statement, read by John Pennington '68, national secretary of SDS, calls the CPLA attackers "thugs." It charges that "they assaulted the workers at the Institute, not the bosses who profit from its efforts to exploit cheap labor abroad, and to suppress movements of oppressed people around the world...