Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Then and now — SDS and Occupy

A half-century after the Students for a Democratic Society adopted their seminal manifesto, 14 activists–including three people who helped shape the statement–assess its legacy.
Read it at In These Times
The Port Huron Statement: Still Radical at 50
by Port Huron Respondents

TPTB investigated and harassed SDS then, just as they are investigating and harassing Occupy now. The more things change, the more they remain the same.

7 comments:

John Zelnicker said...

Tom -- Bad link. And I'd really like to read this because I was in SDS in 1968 at Univ. of Pennsylvania.

Tom Hickey said...

Sorry, John. Fixed now.

John Zelnicker said...

Tom -- I tried again and the link takes me to a blogger sign-in page.

Tom Hickey said...

Fixed again. If there is still a problem, here is the link.

http://inthesetimes.com/article/13053/the_port_huron_statement_still_radical_at_50/

John Zelnicker said...

Thanks very much.

Anonymous said...

Larry Kudlow was a member of th SDS when he was at college. Strange but true. Read his wikipedia biography. He's travelled a very long distance since then.

Tom Hickey said...

"Larry Kudlow was a member of th SDS when he was at college."

That means he is recoverable. People who were straight up conservatives all their lives are the hard nuts to crack, and I do mean "nuts."