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DESCRIPTION:Monday, April 2​7th 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\nOccupyForum presents…\n\n\nStudents for a Democratic Society 
 (SDS)\nRebels With a Cause:\nA Film by 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\n 
 But\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\n\n​ ​•​ ​In 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\n​ •​ ​​A 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 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/04/26/18771553.php
SUMMARY:Film "Rebels with a cause" on Students for a Democratic Society.
LOCATION:Global Exchange\n2017 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA - 94110
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/04/26/18771553.php
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