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...Federal Government reaffirmed last week that the bellicose Weathermen deserve to be taken at their word when they vow to make war on American society. The radical group, a grand jury charged, contained a criminal revolutionary conspiracy complete with a central directorate, small cells, explosives and the intent to kill...
...first criminal charge against the Weathermen, a breakaway faction of the Students for a Democratic Society, but it was the most encompassing. The indictment was filed in Detroit because, it was charged, the conspiracy was born at a secret meeting of the Weathermen in Flint, Mich., last December. Among those indicted was Weatherman Leader Mark Rudd, 23, the former Columbia University student who rose to S.D.S. prominence through his generalship of the student uprising there two years...
...radicalism of this next decade will spin far beyond the theoretical idealism and energy of Alinsky; perhaps the suicidal gestures of the Weathermen and the "polities of despair" are so pervasive and convincing that Alinsky's rationalization that "the pursuit of happiness is never ending-the happiness lies in the pursuit" falls embarrassingly flat. Still, his admirable dedication to the struggle for "life after birth" and the results of thirty years of organizing lead me to quarrel with the social critics who argue that community organization failed in the 1930's and it will fail...
...thinking of the people who live in it-like Flash. But here Flash is probably the exception. Most street freaks probably think of themselves as revolutionary vippies now. The Weatherman Declaration of War that came out of the Underground a couple of weeks ago said to look for the Weathermen all over America. wherever there's free love and dope. "Freaks are revolutionaries and revolutionaries are freaks." Or, as a member of NAS put it in cautioning SDS against holding a rally in Central Square. "A lot of street people are into trashing now." Go to one of the "Summerthing...
...calculated to draw new recruits to the radical cause. In October, 1969, Boston PL members even called press conferences to attack their political rivals and flabbergasted establishment reporters by charging that Mark Rudd (former leader of Columbia SDS and now a member of the street-fighting Weathermen) was a real live police agent...