Word: sds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...established representative groups and the independent activist movement form two sides of the triangle of student politics at Harvard. Whether all student politics could be decided by the operations of the triangle's third side, SDS (Students for a Democratic Society). The future form and content of student politics is what's at stake in the interplay of these three forces. If the Masters make no concessions at the joint meeting on October 31, the HUC could disband or fully endorse the independent activist movement. If SDS becomes involved, the HUC could withdraw and then student action would be connected...
...SDS Executive Committee, like most of the students who participated in the protest, expected no more than picketing. But the event fell under the control of a few individuals who used it for their own purposes and knew exactly what they were doing...
...Democratic Society voted Monday night to picket Dow. They specifically rejected a sit-in, however. The demonstration got started when a few individuals, mostly SDSers, decided to sit-in anyway. Only about onehalf of the students who sat in at the peak of the demonstration were members of SDS...
Throughout the evening demonstrators talked to the guards about their political views, urged them to drop their guns and "join us," and offered them food. SDS loud speakers announced that three of the guards had defected and had then been recaptured by the military. Although it is hard to verify the defections, a number of the demonstrators say they saw at least one of the defectors. Right after the first announcement that an MP had "dropped his rifle, taken off his belt and helmet, and walked into the crowd," a soldier missing his rifle, belt, and helmet was marched (under...
During the debate a wedge of paratroopers and Marshals was forming. One of the SDS announcers asked that a military spokesman talk with one of the demonstration leaders in order to avoid further casualties. After several attempts, it became clear that the military was not going to negotiate. The wedge started moving through the center of the crowd, hacking its way through the demonstrators and splitting them in half. A girl was slapped on the side of the head with a rifle and all of a sudden coke bottles, beer cans, pieces of wood, and stones flew into the phalanx...