Word: rym
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gerry Rym Scarsdale...
Many members of SDS. RYM. and NAC are well-intentioned, but I am forced to condemn their quest for an unrealistic goal when unquestionably brilliant tactics are applied so as to result in both polarizing the power structure to take a hard line on the war and, worst of all, in precipitating a wave of repression which does not affect them but is instead applied to those for whom they would have us believe they fight, i.e.. Black people, Shannon Hall may come to mean that those of us who have been forced into politics because of our concern...
Subsequent to the convention, those who had walked out, members of the Revolutionary Youth Mevement, spilt among themselves, forming two groups: Weatherman (RYM-I) and RYM-H, In the Boston area, members of RYM-H founded...
...radical minority at the conference charged, that the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA)-dominated national SMC deviously railroaded its programs through the convention by controlling the chair and thus the flow of debate, a la Richard Daley. "YSA jammed the conference with its local people." one furious RYM woman told me. "and had them rubber-stamp their liberal. Stalinist bullshit." But the chair, as far as I could see, was impeccably fair in its arbitration and magnificently cool in the face of disruptions. And the delegates who comprised the decisive majority were predominantly clean-for-Geners, not YSA hacks...
After the Lipman proposal had passed, the Independent Front asked for an amendment to change the central SMC slogan. "Bring All the G.I.'s Home Now." That sentiment, said a RYM speaker, is "blatant national chauvinism in that it concerns itself with American lives, and doesn't preclude the continued "Vietnamized" presence of the U.S. in Vietnam...