Word: sds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Demonstrators, primarily from Harvard SDS, had been unclear as to what action they were going to take once the police arrived. At a brief meeting beside the Redgates' home, Lowry Hemphill '72 suggested a "fast-moving militant picket line" which would stretch along the side-walk, and the group of about 80 persons accepted the plan...
...thoroughly the universities have been bought by government and big business, those powerful opponents of any revolution. After that, I coudn't convince myself-honestly-that anything more than token change could be achieved from within the educational system. And what about honesty? In arguments with an acquaintance in SDS (WSA). I invariably had to acqiesce to his terms, for he disposed of mine systematically. My ideas were extremely bourgeois, totally unrelated to the real oppression of the working class, and diversionary from social action to overthrow the profiteering capitalistic order...
...members, except for a few adult mentors and heroes, are almost all young people under twenty-five. Obviously, they are not conservatives or liberals, for whom objective realism is nuclear deterrence and phased withdrawal from the War. Nor are they black militants or members of any faction of SDS, for whom the only real human suffering is the tangible oppression of the Third World and the working class...
...Answering SDS's charge that the subcommittee is a "rubber stamp." Brooks said yesterday. "I wish to hell they were right; it would make our job much easier. "He added." I don't see what purpose open meetings would serve. If SDS wants publicity, that's their privilege. We're not interested in publicity but in finding out the facts...
Lowry Hemphill '72, a member of the SDS anti-expansion committee, last night said that about 200 Harvard students would be present at North Harvard Street this morning if Deputy Sheriffs attempted an eviction. Students from other schools in the area will also be mobilized in an attempt to prevent the Sheriffs from evicing the families...