Word: sds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then a tall, slender man, with side-burns and a wide white hat, entered the discussion. Standing on the rim of the circle, he towered over most of the others. He was from New York, a member of the "Up Against the Wall, Motherfuckers," a rather militant SDS chapter on the lower cast side of New York City...
...minutes earlier had been thinking primarily about peaceful protest, was now talking about military strategy for the policeman-enemy. There was still opposition, of course. One bearded man, Leonard Wolfe, who had supported the march to the jail, argued in a half-whisper with Mark Dyen, of Harvard SDS, who supported mobile tactics...
Frank claimed that these kids were not the hard-core hippies, whose only desire was to be able to spend the night in the open air. "Most of these kids here are SDS," Frank said. "They're trying to organize hippies. The real hippies are these people," he continued, pointing to the small circle which was still sitting there as it had been for hours, now singing "The Answer Is Blowing in the Wind." "And most of the real hippies," Frank said, "have gone elsewhere. They don't want to fight with the police...
RADICALIZING people has been one of the major tasks of SDS and other activist organizations for a long time. But SDS has never been able to radicalize people by what it does. Instead, its task has been to produce confrontations, then let the authorities do the work...
...changed the school's public-to-private school graduate ratio from 40-60 to 60-40. The new radicals there call themselves "Dunham's Children" after the admissions dean. Upperclassmen were calling them "lunchmeat"--a favorite Princeton expression. But the "lunchies" dominate Princeton now. And a tiny but active SDS chapter has been organizing sit-ins all year...