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DESCRIPTION:OccupyForum presents. . .\n\nMonday, April 20th from 6 -- 9 pm at Global 
 Exchange\n2017 Mission Street near the 16th and Mission Street 
 BART\nInformation, discussion & community!\nMonday Night Forum!!\n\nOccupy 
 Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue\non all sides of 
 these critically important issues!\n\nStudents for a Democratic Society 
 (SDS)\nRebels With a Cause:\nA Film by\n​ ​ ​SDS'S ​​ ​Helen 
 Garvy\n\nDescended from the Intercollegiate Socialist Society started in 
 1905, SDS held its first meeting in 1960. Its political manifesto, the Port 
 Huron Statement drafted by Tom Hayden, criticized the political system of 
 the United States for failing to achieve international peace. It critiqued 
 Cold War foreign policy, the threat of nuclear war, and the arms race. In 
 domestic matters, it criticized racial discrimination, economic inequality, 
 big businesses, trade unions and political parties. In addition to its 
 critique and analysis of the American system, the manifesto also suggested 
 reforms: a need to reshape into two genuine political parties, for stronger 
 power for individuals through citizen's lobbies, for more substantial 
 involvement by workers in business management, and for an enlarged public 
 sector with increased government welfare, including a "program against 
 poverty." The manifesto provided ideas of what and how to work for and to 
 improve, and also advocated nonviolent civil disobedience as the means by 
 which student youth could bring forth a "participatory democracy."\nSound 
 familiar?\n\nBut\n\n• When, in 1965, United States President Johnson 
 dramatically escalated the war in Vietnam, SDS held the first teach-in 
 against the war, and then hundreds more, all over the country. SDS worked 
 to organize the march against the war in Washington that attracted 25,000 
 anti-war protesters, and SDS became the leading student group against the 
 war on most U.S. campuses.\n\n• SDS pursued civil-rights and anti-war 
 activities, was in 1967 the scene of an SDS-generated free speech movement 
 (the University Freedom Movement) that mobilized thousands of students in 
 massive demonstrations and other activities and coordinated series of 
 demonstrations against the draft. \n\nIn the spring of 1968, National SDS 
 activists led an effort on the campuses called "Ten Days of Resistance" and 
 local chapters cooperated with the Student Mobilization Committee in 
 rallies, marches, sit-ins and teach-ins, which culminated in a one-day 
 strike on April 26. About a million students stayed away from classes that 
 day, the largest student strike in the history of the United States.\n\n• 
 The student shutdown of Columbia University in New York, led by an 
 inter-racial alliance of Columbia SDS chapter activists and Student Afro 
 Society activists. As a result of the mass media publicity given to 
 Columbia, SDS activists such as Columbia SDS chairperson Mark Rudd during 
 the Columbia Student Revolt, the organization was put on the map 
 politically and "SDS" became a household name.\n\n• SDS in San Francisco 
 played a major role in the Third World Student Strike at San Francisco 
 State College. This strike, the longest student strike in U.S. history, led 
 to the creation of Black and other ethnic studies programs on campuses 
 across the country.\n\nA new incarnation of SDS was founded on January 16, 
 2006, and by 2010 had grown to over 150 chapters around the United States. 
 It has held five national conventions to date, including the fifth in 
 2010.\n\nCome watch\n​"​Rebels with a Cause​"​ and find out how 
 they did it!\n\n\nQ&A and Announcements to follow.\nDonations to 
 OccupyForum gladly accepted; no one turned away!\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/04/19/18771304.php
SUMMARY:OccupyForum : SDS insider film (Students for a Democratic Society)
LOCATION:Global Exchange\n2017 Mission Street\nSan Francisco, CA - 94110
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/04/19/18771304.php
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