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...efforts of an individual. Thus a man who, say, sponsors a ghetto child for two summer weeks in the country might be accused by the politically devoted liberal of ignoring the proper government channels, sneered at by a right-wing zealot as a "do-gooder" and denounced by a Weatherman as an irrelevant pander to a sick system...
...emotional points. Audiences have always been gulled by it, even 'sophisticated' ones, so Kramer's influence must not be simply scoffed at. In fact, the only alternatives offered to it by the few American films dealing with contemporary social ills have been 16mm Newsreel formlessness, the terrorism of ex-Weatherman Robert Kramer's Ice, the varying documentary techniques of Wiseman, De Antonio et al. None are really interested in getting at the conceptual root of an issue, and then advocating viable morality or actions. None really operate to aim at the heart of the film audience...
...political demarcation between NAC and Weatherman, which had never been precise, blurred through the Spring of 1970. NAC sponsored a riot in Harvard Square following the April 15th Moratorium. The political goal of breaking all those windows in Harvard Square, if there was any at all, must have been to affirm with some violent deed the words, "Solidarity with the Vietnamese." Dick wrote a piece the day before the action in Harvard Square called, "Stay in the Streets." He wrote...
Hyland next attracted attention for two articles in the Crimson of Oct. 22, 1969, which attacked Harvard's Center for International Affairs (CFIA). The CFIA had been the target the month before for a raid by Boston's chapter of Weatherman, and Hyland defended that action, writing. "The only reason I wouldn't blow up the Center for International Affairs is that I might got caught...
...possible tactics, even Weatherman tactics, are only propaganda and organizing tools. None of them in itself impedes the war machine. They make the war too costly, and thus the war may end. but the war machine will remain intact. The criterion for judging an action should be, therefore, in terms of building a movement that will be able to destroy the machine itself. The criterion must be dependent upon how many of who never you want to see, to hear and to agree become catalyzed to move to the level of consciousness that the particular tactic embodies...