Word: sds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SDS co-chairman Jared Israel called for massive student support of the demonstration at yesterday afternoon's anti-war rally in the yard. The largest campus rally in recent years, it was attended by more than 500 persons. Leaflets which asked: "Is it in the interests of chemistry students--or of any students--that war profiteers like Dow prostitute science for repression and murder?" were distributed at the meeting...
...stood with Mike Spiegel '68, National Secretary of SDS, and a number of other students from Harvard, it became clear that everyone expected trouble. Some were wearing crash helmets and others who wore glasses had remembered to bring along an extra pair. Vague plans had been laid to spend the night at the Pentagon, but no one really knew if the vigil was going to come off. There was a good deal of speculation about what kind of people had showed up and how they would react under stress. Spiegel was not pleased with the hippies and was afraid that...
...ground they had gained--what was later to be christened the "Free Pentagon"--and were convinced that the violence was over. As the afternoon wore on, the military attempted a few flanking movements in an effort to cut off the demonstrators sitting on the steps. They were repulsed. SDS had set up their microphones on the wall beside the top steps and was directing traffic and posting troop movements for those who couldn't see: "About 50 MP's are trying to block off the stairs... they're using tear gas... it looks like our people have them surrounded...
...four organizers have had little support since they came to Boston. A few Harvard SDS members have helped them picket for a day or two. In fact, there is manpower enough to picket only two stores in Cambridge and Waltham. At each, the customers' reaction to the request has been almost unanimously favorable...
Four organizers and one UFWOC volunteer arrived in Boston on September 1. The volunteer was Alan Moonves, a Harvard junior and SDS activist who had spent his summer at the Giumarra farms working as a trainee for the UFWOC. "At first our job seemed pretty clear cut. But the label game made it a lot harder. Giumarra managed to sell his grapes somewhere and it was our job to track them down...