Word: sds
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...Harvard was one of the major strikes in the spring of '69," Grele says, adding that the campus "had one of the largest SDS [contigents] in the country." SDS--Students for a Democratic Society--was a national progressive student organization which helped to spur campus demonstrations nationwide at the height of its membership in the late...
Harvard's SDS chapter of 800 members was active since the mid-'60s, and although sharply divided, it mounted what many former students say was a particularly democratic demonstration. "Unlike Columbia, we did not have leaders or official spokesmen--the media had a hard time figuring out who was quotable," says Jon Weiner, who was a graduate student and SDS member during the strike. "There were meetings of 1000 people every night and different chairpersons every time," Weiner adds...
...strike was a very clear example of SDS participatory democracy," he says...
...SDS national network contributed to the widespread effect of the 1968 and 1969 student protests. Activist leaders watched events on other campuses, learning new tactics and drawing strength from the others' efforts...
...Murray, an SDS organizer at Cornell University during the 1969 protests, says that "in 1968, when Columbia happened, people followed that very closely...