Word: sds
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...early as 1965, SDS was organizing national anti-war demonstrations that attracted over 20,000 participants, and a national office with a regular newspaper kept individual chapters connected. Critics now are quick to point out that this time, SDS is basically an Internet group with limited face-to-face interaction, which was so crucial to the original...
...some argue that this organization has just simply hijacked the old SDS name. "SDS in the 1960s was real; SDS in 2007 is a fraud," says Maurice Isserman, a professor of history at Hamilton College and a former SDSer at Reed College...
...SDS' today is a virtual organization, utterly dependent on the web, with no national office, no newspaper, unable to muster more than a few score followers at other people's demonstrations, controlled by a small clique of non-student 'elders,' and hollow at the center," Isserman points...
...current SDSers is any indication, the group's goals are ambitious. SDSers seem keen to point out problems with "the system," and their collective agenda is to tackle a host of anti-imperialist issues including the war in Iraq and concerns about the global economy, immigration and racism. SDS isn't just focusing on the U.S. "The military industrial complex is huge, of course," says Marisa Holmes, a School of the Art Institute of Chicago chapter member...
...Second-generation SDSers argue that they will not make the same mistakes as their forebears by veering towards the extreme Left. The Weathermen's actions have nothing to do with the group's current ambitions, they say, and they are sick of cynics drawing comparisons. Still, the new SDS will have to grapple with its unsavory past, while looking to carve out an activist niche...