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… due to internal frac- tures in 1969. Brick said Occupy Wall Street and its local offshoots, the Arab Spring and the student pro- tests in Quebec, among others, are similar to the protests car- ried out…
… Monday, July 2,2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Port Huron Statement mary were University students - principally Ann Arbor resident AlnHsber, who reconstituted celebrates 50 years SDS in…
… 1960, and Tom Hayden, then-editor in thief of The Michi- gan Daily and the manifesto's Student protest whole society root and branch, main author. from top to bottom, into a genu- When SDS members…
… 11, 1962 to draft and an end, galvanized tens of the Statement, it had been a small By ANDREW SCHULLMAN thousands of students to protest group with a few hundred mem- Daily Staff Reporter nationwide…
… the "When SDS came to write its disapprove motions. young students' generation, the manifesto, it had all those ele- But if the exercise was tedi- historian Kirkpatrick Sale wrote ments in its backpack…
…," Brick said. um to some members, who filed in his book "SDS: The rise and "It's that long socialist heritage, out before long, it was also the development of the Students for a the new critics, the…
… intellectu- embodiment of the principles out- Democratic Society." als and the civil rights and peace lined in the Students for a Demo- "The Port Huron Statement movements - all of that together cratic Society…
…, century American society, and What emerged from the con- called to action the most active so successfully captured and vention on June 15, 1962 was a generation of student protestors shaped the spirit of…
… professed hope through the par- "They viewed it as an agenda for the few hundred students around - ticipatory democracy of grassroots action, and participatory democ- SDS, not only a political expres…
… Hayden ard Brick. "They wanted their own succeeding years, but even more a drove to Washington after the organizations and the movements summary of beliefs of the student conference hoping they could that…