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...summer of 1960, the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) had 29 members, a grant of $10,000 from Detroit's United Automobile Workers Union and an earnest commitment to social change...
...Port Huron Statement, the group's 1962 manifesto written after a conference in Port Huron, Mich., addressed issues ranging from nuclear weapons stockpiling to the two party system. For SDS, all of these issues indicated that American society was fundamentally flawed...
...statement also contained a commitment to the principles of participatory democracy, the hallmark of SDS's early actions and later the source of many of its troubles...
...have unrealized potential forself-cultivation, self-direction,self-understanding and creativity," SDS memberTom Hayden wrote in the Port Huron statement. "Itis this potential that we regard as crucial and towhich we appeal...
...University," Todd Gitlin '63 said in aninterview for Kirkpatrick Sale's book SDS,"begins to feel like a cage...