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...least successful SDS projects so far, as SDS intellectuals are aware, have been those dealing with the middle class...
...CRIMSON is reprinting this article by Richard Blumenthal '67 by permission of the Nation magazine, where it appeared in the May 22nd issue under the title of "SDS: Protest is not enough...
Members of Students for a Democratic Society marched last month in the Spring Mobilization, and cheered faithfully when Stokely Carmichael denounced the "cruel and senseless" war in Vietnam. But they demonstrated without the high expectations and hopes of past protests. SDS did not participate in organizing the march, refused initially to endorse it, and finally came to support it only ten days before it was scheduled to occur. Both the mood of the marchers and the attitude of their organization reflected a significant shift of strategy within SDS...
...building a movement or radical social change. SDS is turning from the tactics of protest and confrontation--marches, pickets and sit-ins--to those of organization and resistance. Although the students will continue to utilize dramatic, "one-shot" incidents of protest to attract publicity and membership, they are shifting, as national vice president, Carl Davidson, puts it, "to dig in for the long haul, to become full-time, radical, sustained, relevant." Marches, says a Chicago SDSer, "are just not enough. They won't stop this war. More important, they won't stop the military industrial complex, the powerful institutions that...
...others throughout the nation -- will have a chance to turn that concern into opposition, to organize large numbers of people in other communities into a pressure group for peace. Vietnam Summer, an anti-war program headquartered in Cambridge, will provide funds, advice and workers to any group (whether radical SDS or moderate Republican) seeking to reverse the Administration's present course. It will support education programs for conscientious objectors and slumdwellers, but its major tactic will be the teach-out, community organizing in middle class neighborhoods...