Revived SDS joins anti-war protest

[Algorem]

Source: Plain Dealer


Friday, March 21, 2008
Terry Oblander
Plain Dealer Reporter
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About 50 members of the Students for a Democratic Society club at Shaker Heights High School poured out of Terminal Tower and joined another 30 students already at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. Thursday's protest against the war was the first for the "new" SDS in Cleveland....

The first SDS was born in Port Huron, Mich., in 1962 amid the buildup to the Vietnam War. After seven years of leftist proselytizing and confrontations with authority, the SDS broke apart at its 1969 convention.

The group was reconstituted in 2006 in Chicago. The SDS Web site claims to have 88 chapters, including ones at Shaker Heights High School, Lakeland Community College in Kirtland and Ohio University in Athens.

Shaker freshman Julia Celeste, 14, the granddaughter of former Ohio Gov. Richard Celeste, said weekly club meetings after school on Fridays usually draw 20 to 30 students. She admitted she was scared to death when she took a bullhorn and talked to Thursday's crowd of about 140 anti-war protesters...




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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Wouldn't it be nice to have

a Democratic Society once again? Kudos to the kids in Cleveland!

[kestrel91316]

2. When I was picking a college to attend in the early 70s, my mom

discouraged me from choosing U of CO in Boulder because the SDS had been active there and she thought it was a bit too hippy-radical-infested, lol. So I went to CO State.

[heliarc]

4. When I was picking colleges I learned about Swarthmore...

"The Kremlin on the Crum" -- Spiro Agnew. I went because of their history in the SDS and other rabble-rousing groups and we tried to revive SDS, but that was the 1990s and there was very little political activism then. Dead on campuses as far as I could see. Good to see a resurgence.

Incidentally Spiro Agnew is an anagram for grow a penis. I'm sure everyone knew that, but I always like reminding people.

[pleah]

3. K&R

Great kids!

[asthmaticeog]

5. Excellent.

I wonder how much of an actual connection this SDS has to the original, like is a Howie Emmer or someone suchlike in there somewhere?

[eminemily84]

7. member of the protest...

we're connected to the larger organization--we have to register and such and we keep in contact with other SDS chapters in the area...it was a pretty exciting march!

[asthmaticeog]

8. Welcome to DU!

Keep up the good fight.

Edited to add: I work a two minute walk from public square, and I had zilch to do yesterday. I wish I'd known that was even going on. It's amazing how out-of-the-loop I can be...

[Ellen Forradalom]

9. Welcome to DU!

Learn the lessons from the first time around. Keep it a viable mass organization, don't let the revolutionary glamour-pusses take over.

[David Zephyr]

17. Welcome to the DU on your 1st post!

Welcome.

[David__77]

10. Different organization.

The old one - entirely different. Of course, SDS in 1968-69 was different than a couple years before. In 68-69, it was all Marxist-Leninist or Maoist. The social democrats had lost any role organizationally. The new group is more postmodern, whatever that means.

[madrchsod]

14. i visited the sds headquaters in chicago in 69

dohrn was there typing away and i was shown a brand new printing press donated by a wealthy leftist in chicago..interesting thing was what ever they were printing was in russian! it was just before they turned into the weathermen.

[LiberalEsto]

6. Awesome!

I was in SDS once upon a time.

[madrchsod]

13. another sds "graduate " here...

yes once upon a time....

[cbayer]

11. It's about damn time.

Due to the lack of the draft, the youth of this country have been pretty complacent. It has just not been their problem.

[bluesmail]

12. Le Resistance is mounting, what a great feeling to know

SDS on High School's campus. Can't underevaluate the SDS.

[Peace Patriot]

15. Just remember, kids...

The war profiteers and global corporate predators who are running things want you to throw bombs. That they can handle. What they can't handle is the majority's votes being counted in public view.

[saigon68]

16. They will NEVER allow that to happen.

[Hardrada]

18. I never quit the original SDS and have been awaiting

for it to come back. And so it has!! Dare to struggle! Dare to win!