The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a radical student activism movement in the United states founded in 1959. As part of the New Left movement in the United States, the organization developed rapidly in the mid-1960's, before dissolving in 1969. == Origins == It developed from the youth branch of a socialist educational organization known as the League for Industrial Democracy which descended from the Intercollegiate Socialist Society which was started in 1905. SDS held its first meeting in 1960 at Ann Arbor, Michigan, where Robert Alan Haber was elected president. Its political manifesto, known as the Port Huron Statement, was adopted at the organization's first convention in 1962, based on an earlier draft by staff member Tom Hayden. This manifesto criticized the political system of the United States for failing to achieve international peace and failing to address social ills in contemporary society. It also advocated non-violent civil disobedience as the means by which student youth could bring forth a "participatory democracy." At Port Huron Statement, Tom Hayden clashed with Irving Howe and Michael Harrington, over the perceived potential for totalitarianism. Hayden said, "While the draft Port Huron Statement included a strong denunciation of the Soviet Union, it wasn't enough for LID leaders like Michael Harrington. They wanted absolute clarity, for example, that the United States was blameless for the nuclear arms race.... In truth, they seemed threatened by the independence of the new wave of student activism...." == From 1965 to 1969 == At first, SDS focused on peaceful efforts to promote the civil rights movement and improve the conditions of the inner-city ghettos. However, it came to be known for the leading role that it played in student opposition to the Vietnam War. While SDS remained non-violent, it became increasingly militant, and certain SDS factions had a reputation for violent confrontation, including the Progressive Labor Party's Worker Student Alliance, the (Revolutionary Youth Movement I, and the Revolutionary Youth Movement II). SDS formed the core of a movement in the 1960s known collectively as the New Left, or simply "The Movement." This was loosely associated with other prominent student activist organizations such as the Free Speech Movement, a coalition of student groups at the University of California, Berkeley that was formed in response to a prohibition on political activities on the Berkeley campus. SDS split up in 1969 amidst internal discord, with its more radical remnants continuing as the Progressive Labor Party (USA)/Worker Student Alliance, Weathermen, and the Revolutionary Union. A few former SDS leaders went on to successful political careers, including Tom Hayden, who later served in the California State Assembly (1982-1992) and State Senate (1992-2000). The SDS was the organizational high point for student radicalism in the United States, and thus has been an important influence on student organizing in the decades since its collapse. Participatory democracy, direct action, radicalism, student power, shoestring budgets, and its organizational structure are all present in varying degrees in current national student activist groups. Though various organizations have been formed in the years since, as proposed national networks for left-wing student organizing, none has ever approached the scale of SDS, and most have lasted a few years at best. Several attempts have been made at reviving the name, including a circa-2003 organization with a few chapters at colleges in the Midwest and Northeast. ==External links== *[http://www.riseup.net/sds/ SDS Historical Documents and other links]. Retrieved April 12, 2005. ==="New SDS"=== *[http://www.newschoolsds.com New School University (NYC) SDS] *[http://people.emich.edu/tmclean/index2.html SDS Eastern Michigan University] *[http://www.geocities.com/ladb2007/sds_org.html SDS Dartmouth College] *[http://pub2.bravenet.com/forum/92096006 SDS University of Michigan] == Further reading == === Archives === * Students for a Democratic Society (S.D.S.), Records, 1965-74. May 4 Collection -- Box 107. Kent State University Libraries and Media Services. [http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/ Department of Special Collections and Archives]. [http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/4may70/box107/107.html Online guide retrieved April 12, 2005]. * Students for a Democratic Society Period : 1962-1970. Period : 1962-1970. Total Size : 0.5 m. [http://www.iisg.nl/ International Institute of Social History]. [http://www.iisg.nl/archives/gias/s/10770684.html Online guide retrieved April 12, 2005]. === Articles === * Alper, Mark. [http://nextleftnotes.net/current/sds.html ''The Legacy of S.D.S. and Its Relevance to Today's Activists'']. Next Left Notes. Direct Action Tendency, Socialist Party USA. Retrieved April 12, 2005. * Good, Thomas. [http://nextleftnotes.net/current/ncor.html ''From SDS to NCOR: Socialism, Anarchism and Bernardine Dohrn'']. Next Left Notes. Direct Action Tendency, Socialist Party USA. Retrieved May 19, 2005. * Murray Bookchin. [http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bookchin/leftletterprint.html ''Anarchy and Organization: A Letter To The Left'']. Reprinted from New Left Notes. January 15, 1969. Retrieved April 12, 2005. ''"The essay originally was written in reply to an attack by Huey Newton on anarchist forms of organization."'' === Books === * Halstead, Fred. '''Out Now!: A Participant's Account of the Movement in the United States Against the Vietnam War. 759 pages. Hardcover edition. Publisher: Anchor Foundation; Reprint edition. June 1, 1978. ISBN 0913460478. * Heineman, Kenneth Jon. To Undo the Heavy Burdens: A Comparative Study of the Anti-Vietnam War Movement at the Non-Elite State Universities. (Kent State University, Michigan State University, Pennsylvania State University, and the State University of New York at Buffalo). Volumes 1 & 2. Doctoral thesis. University of Pittsburgh, 1990. * Klatch, Rebecca E. A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999. * Sale, Kirkpatrick. SDS: Ten Years Towards a Revolution. New York: Vintage Books, 1974. Mass market paperback, 752 pages, ISBN 0394719654 (this ISBN, while correct, sometimes leads to another book). === SDS Publications === * James, Mike. Getting Ready for the Firing Line: Join Community Union. Chicago: Students for a Democratic Society, March 1968. Stapled softcover. 8p. Photos by Nancy Hollander, Tom Malear of the Chicago Film Coop, Todd Gitlin & Les Jordan, SCEF. Reprinted from \"The Activist,\" Spring 1967. Introduction for this pamphlet by Mike James. * Oppenheimer, Martin. Alienation or Participation: The Sociology of Participatory Democracy. n.p.: Students of a Democratic Society (S.D.S.), 1966. 7 pages. 1st edition. Stapled paperback. * Students For A Democratic Society [S.D.S.]. Fight Racism! Boston: Students for a Democratic Society, n.d. [1969]. 28pp. 1st edition. Stapled softcover. * Students for a Democratic Society. New Left Notes. Chicago. [?] Vol. 1 # 1 1965 [?] - Vol. 4 # 31 Oct 2/1969. === U.S. Government Publications === * U.S. House of Representatives. Investigation of Students for a Democratic Society, Part 2 (Kent State University): Hearings Before the Committe on Internal Security, House of Representatives; 91st Congress, 2nd Session, June 24 and 25, 1969. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969. * U.S. House of Representatives. Investigation of Students for a Democratic Society, Part 3-A (George Washington University); Hearings Before the Committee on Internal Security, House of Representatives; 91st Congress, 2nd Session, July 22, 1969. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969. * U.S. House of Representatives. Student Views Toward U.S. Policy in Southeast Asia; Hearings Before an Ad Hoc Committee of Members of the House of Representatives; 91st Congress, 2nd Session, July 22, 1969. Washington: U.S. Government Printng Office, 1969. * U.S. President. Commission on Campus Unrest. Report. This publication is often referred to as the Scranton Report''', issued in 1970. Anti-Vietnam War groups Political movements
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The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a radical student activism movement in the United states founded in 1959. As part of the New Left movement in the United States, the organization developed rapidly in the mid-1960's, before dissolving in 1969. == Origins == It developed from the youth branch of a socialist educational organization known as the League for Industrial Democracy which descended from the Intercollegiate Socialist Society which was started in 1905. SDS held its first meeting in 1960 at Ann Arbor, Michigan, where Robert Alan Haber was elected president. Its political manifesto, known as the Port Huron Statement, was adopted at the organization's first convention in 1962, based on an earlier draft by staff member Tom Hayden. This manifesto criticized the political system of the United States for failing to achieve international peace and failing to address social ills in contemporary society. It also advocated non-violent civil disobedience as the means by which student youth could bring forth a "participatory democracy." At Port Huron Statement, Tom Hayden clashed with Irving Howe and Michael Harrington, over the perceived potential for totalitarianism. Hayden said, "While the draft Port Huron Statement included a strong denunciation of the Soviet Union, it wasn't enough for LID leaders like Michael Harrington. They wanted absolute clarity, for example, that the United States was blameless for the nuclear arms race.... In truth, they seemed threatened by the independence of the new wave of student activism...." == From 1965 to 1969 == At first, SDS focused on peaceful efforts to promote the civil rights movement and improve the conditions of the inner-city ghettos. However, it came to be known for the leading role that it played in student opposition to the Vietnam War. While SDS remained non-violent, it became increasingly militant, and certain SDS factions had a reputation for violent confrontation, including the Progressive Labor Party's Worker Student Alliance, the (Revolutionary Youth Movement I, and the Revolutionary Youth Movement II). SDS formed the core of a movement in the 1960s known collectively as the New Left, or simply "The Movement." This was loosely associated with other prominent student activist organizations such as the Free Speech Movement, a coalition of student groups at the University of California, Berkeley that was formed in response to a prohibition on political activities on the Berkeley campus. SDS split up in 1969 amidst internal discord, with its more radical remnants continuing as the Progressive Labor Party (USA)/Worker Student Alliance, Weathermen, and the Revolutionary Union. A few former SDS leaders went on to successful political careers, including Tom Hayden, who later served in the California State Assembly (1982-1992) and State Senate (1992-2000). The SDS was the organizational high point for student radicalism in the United States, and thus has been an important influence on student organizing in the decades since its collapse. Participatory democracy, direct action, radicalism, student power, shoestring budgets, and its organizational structure are all present in varying degrees in current national student activist groups. Though various organizations have been formed in the years since, as proposed national networks for left-wing student organizing, none has ever approached the scale of SDS, and most have lasted a few years at best. Several attempts have been made at reviving the name, including a circa-2003 organization with a few chapters at colleges in the Midwest and Northeast. ==External links== *[http://www.riseup.net/sds/ SDS Historical Documents and other links]. Retrieved April 12, 2005. ==="New SDS"=== *[http://www.newschoolsds.com New School University (NYC) SDS] *[http://people.emich.edu/tmclean/index2.html SDS Eastern Michigan University] *[http://www.geocities.com/ladb2007/sds_org.html SDS Dartmouth College] *[http://pub2.bravenet.com/forum/92096006 SDS University of Michigan] == Further reading == === Archives === * Students for a Democratic Society (S.D.S.), Records, 1965-74. May 4 Collection -- Box 107. Kent State University Libraries and Media Services. [http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/ Department of Special Collections and Archives]. [http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/4may70/box107/107.html Online guide retrieved April 12, 2005]. * Students for a Democratic Society Period : 1962-1970. Period : 1962-1970. Total Size : 0.5 m. [http://www.iisg.nl/ International Institute of Social History]. [http://www.iisg.nl/archives/gias/s/10770684.html Online guide retrieved April 12, 2005]. === Articles === * Alper, Mark. [http://nextleftnotes.net/current/sds.html ''The Legacy of S.D.S. and Its Relevance to Today's Activists'']. Next Left Notes. Direct Action Tendency, Socialist Party USA. Retrieved April 12, 2005. * Good, Thomas. [http://nextleftnotes.net/current/ncor.html ''From SDS to NCOR: Socialism, Anarchism and Bernardine Dohrn'']. Next Left Notes. Direct Action Tendency, Socialist Party USA. Retrieved May 19, 2005. * Murray Bookchin. [http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bookchin/leftletterprint.html ''Anarchy and Organization: A Letter To The Left'']. Reprinted from New Left Notes. January 15, 1969. Retrieved April 12, 2005. ''"The essay originally was written in reply to an attack by Huey Newton on anarchist forms of organization."'' === Books === * Halstead, Fred. '''Out Now!: A Participant's Account of the Movement in the United States Against the Vietnam War. 759 pages. Hardcover edition. Publisher: Anchor Foundation; Reprint edition. June 1, 1978. ISBN 0913460478. * Heineman, Kenneth Jon. To Undo the Heavy Burdens: A Comparative Study of the Anti-Vietnam War Movement at the Non-Elite State Universities. (Kent State University, Michigan State University, Pennsylvania State University, and the State University of New York at Buffalo). Volumes 1 & 2. Doctoral thesis. University of Pittsburgh, 1990. * Klatch, Rebecca E. A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999. * Sale, Kirkpatrick. SDS: Ten Years Towards a Revolution. New York: Vintage Books, 1974. Mass market paperback, 752 pages, ISBN 0394719654 (this ISBN, while correct, sometimes leads to another book). === SDS Publications === * James, Mike. Getting Ready for the Firing Line: Join Community Union. Chicago: Students for a Democratic Society, March 1968. Stapled softcover. 8p. Photos by Nancy Hollander, Tom Malear of the Chicago Film Coop, Todd Gitlin & Les Jordan, SCEF. Reprinted from \"The Activist,\" Spring 1967. Introduction for this pamphlet by Mike James. * Oppenheimer, Martin. Alienation or Participation: The Sociology of Participatory Democracy. n.p.: Students of a Democratic Society (S.D.S.), 1966. 7 pages. 1st edition. Stapled paperback. * Students For A Democratic Society [S.D.S.]. Fight Racism! Boston: Students for a Democratic Society, n.d. [1969]. 28pp. 1st edition. Stapled softcover. * Students for a Democratic Society. New Left Notes. Chicago. [?] Vol. 1 # 1 1965 [?] - Vol. 4 # 31 Oct 2/1969. === U.S. Government Publications === * U.S. House of Representatives. Investigation of Students for a Democratic Society, Part 2 (Kent State University): Hearings Before the Committe on Internal Security, House of Representatives; 91st Congress, 2nd Session, June 24 and 25, 1969. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969. * U.S. House of Representatives. Investigation of Students for a Democratic Society, Part 3-A (George Washington University); Hearings Before the Committee on Internal Security, House of Representatives; 91st Congress, 2nd Session, July 22, 1969. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969. * U.S. House of Representatives. Student Views Toward U.S. Policy in Southeast Asia; Hearings Before an Ad Hoc Committee of Members of the House of Representatives; 91st Congress, 2nd Session, July 22, 1969. Washington: U.S. Government Printng Office, 1969. * U.S. President. Commission on Campus Unrest. Report. This publication is often referred to as the Scranton Report''', issued in 1970. Anti-Vietnam War groups Political movements
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> The membership of such organizations consisted mostly of liberal arts majors.Do we have some plausible source for this, or is it just an assumption? I'm guessing that most people in universities are liberal arts majors, so is it even relevant? Take it out. User:RickK 02:08, 25 Sep 2003 (UTC) :The fact that liberal arts majors formed the core constituency of SDS is well-documented in most college history textbooks. (See, e.g., Boyer, Paul S., et al., ''The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People, Volume II From 1865'' (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000), p. 868.) Most baby boomers followed conventional paths, and majored in business, engineering, etc. In striking contrast, the members of SDS were a vocal minority of intellectuals who idolized the mavericks of the 1950s, such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. == Is new SDS for real? == What is the new manifestation of SDS acheiving? If someone knows they should add it too the article. If not . . . --User:LegCircus 22:23, Aug 30, 2004 (UTC) A small group of people (primarily lead by one person) are trying to start a group called SDS. At first I didn't think they were going to amount to anything, but now they appear to have at least chapters-in-formation at four (or more) schools. That is actually fairly impressive for a multi-issue progressive student network. I think somebody tried to start a SDS group aproximately six years ago or so. I remember being on the email list. I suspect someone tries to restart SDS every five to ten years, but that's just a hunch. Aaron Kreider, Nov. 14, 2004 The new SDS appears to have chapters at Dartmouth College and the New School University in NYC. They've published a statement called the Dartmouth Manifesto which probably ought to be referenced in Wikipedia at some point. Should we start including info on the "new" SDS here or have a separate article linked to/from this one? My thought is that unless some of the principals of the original organization are involved, it's essentially a new organization, a new generation has rediscovered the Port Huron Statement and is using it as the basis for a new movement, which is not necessarily a continuation of the original movement. By the way I added an article on Robert Alan Haber; one less "red link" in the SDS article. Please expand on it if you have more or better info on Haber. User:Elmarco 21:49, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC) :I'm not convinced the new organizaiton is really notable enough for an article. Moreover, it's not even clear to me from the external links that these chapters still exist, just that they did a year or so ago. In the extremely fluid world of leftist campus organizing, a couple of chapters and a document doesn't really amount to much. User:Radicalsubversiv User talk:Radicalsubversiv 23:55, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC) ==Drugs and SDS== Did some SDS members use drugs? Probably. Ditto for the Young Americans for Freedom, I'm sure. SDS was not, in and of itself, a counterculture organization that advocated drug use. So unless someone can find something sourced and relevant to organizatoin's activities to say about this, it doesn't belong in the article. Also using drug abuse to refer generically to drug use generically is POV. User:Radicalsubversiv User talk:Radicalsubversiv 14:21, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC) There are ample sources for this. SDS members were particularly focused on using LSD and other psychedelic drugs. It is important historical context to the activities of the group and its splinter groups. Using the expression POV in the manner some do could be seen as being POV also. User:Ollieplatt 18:39, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC) Given how prevalent drug use was in the youth culture of the time, I don't think drug use by members of the SDS would be remarkable enough to merit mention, any more than underage alcohol use by members of a student group would be remarkable today. The point could be made that many SDS members had long hair, but in the context of the times, that's not significant. I don't see that it would help one better understand the organization or its contributions, unless our intent was to use drug abuse pejoratively to discredit or discount the group or its members. User:Elmarco 22:52, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC) It's not meant to be pejorative, it just explains what was happening. SDS was I believe financed from the proceeds of LSD sales, I couldn't find a source for that so didn't put it in the article. An accurate account of SDS necessarily includes a reference to drugs and the activities of splinter groups. User:Ollieplatt 06:15, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC) :Your citations are completely bogus. One is merely a list of dates pertaining to LSD, which for no particular reason seems to include a number of political events in the 1960s. Another looks like a school paper by a high school student, which makes passing reference to SDS and to drugs, but does not connect the two. A third deals with a single obscure individual who is stated to have been involved in a specific SDS action. And the final one says nothing about drugs and is about the Weather Underground, a separate organization which has its own article which is already discussed and linked to from here. User:Radicalsubversiv User talk:Radicalsubversiv 08:49, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC) ::My references are entirely valid. Why does a list pertaining to LSD just happen to also list SDS? A coincidence I don't think. A school paper or a paper from an experimental college or whatever, I don't know what it is but it's a clear source in support of the ties between SDS and LSD. References to SDS splinter groups of the kind of Weather Underground are entirely valid. I reject your accusations and those of your sockpuppets.User:Ollieplatt 09:30, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC) :::Let me get the logic for this straight: 1) Some guy on the internet with a list of dates which includes both stuff about SDS and stuff about LSD demonstrates a connection between the two? 2) Because I attend a nontraditional liberal arts college, a high-school paper may be cited in support of a claim which it doesn't actually make? User:Radicalsubversiv User talk:Radicalsubversiv 09:39, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC) :::Ollieplatt's previous citations, which he has now reverted back to three times, continue to be bogus. Now he has added a new one, a document which discusses the FBI's suspicions that drugs were used by many in the "New Left", but contains no information whatsoever concerning drug use in SDS specifically. User:Radicalsubversiv User talk:Radicalsubversiv 10:05, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC) ::::I invite others to read the references, which make it very clear that the SDS was closely associated with the drug culture of the 1960's. The most recent reference names individual SDS leaders as being associated with this activity. Denying drug use in these student groups has all the intellectual validity of holocaust denial and flat earth advocacy. How many more sources can be listed? There are dozens more available for all to see on Google. User:Ollieplatt 11:00, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC) :::::I have read the references and they suggest no such thing. Ignoring for the moment the fact that all these references are of uncertain provenance. In the first source, the SDS march on Washington and "SDS unravels" appear in an anonymous timeline that contains drug references not specifically related to SDS. Nothing in that timeline suggests any connection between drugs and SDS. In the second source, a semi-anonymous student essay, drug involvement is attributed to "hippies" and "young Americans"; the only references to SDS are political with regard to leftist beliefs, opposition to the war in Vietnam and tactics of mass demonstration. Nothing linking the SDS to drugs. The third source documents Yippie Dana Beal's drug use but the only mention of SDS is that Beal was a leader of the joint Zippies/SDS takeover of the McGovern headquarters...guilt by association? Hardly supports the claim that "many SDS leaders became involved in drug taking." In Beal's own [http://www.legalizace.cz/index.php?clanekid=235 bio] he doesn't mention any involvement with SDS. The fourth source involves crimes by the Weather Underground after they split from the SDS, and we have a separate article on the Weather Underground. The fifth source discusses certain COINTELPRO efforts to politically undermine or discredit SDS, but nowhere indicates that the FBI was "aware of SDS drug use" or even discusses drugs in connection with SDS. User:Elmarco 15:30, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC) :Are we at a point where the damage has been repaired and the accuracy of the article is no longer in dispute? Or are we at a stalemate (or in a truce)? Where are we in the dispute resolution process? User:Elmarco 16:17, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC) == 69.138.67.42 == I removed the changes by 69.138.67.42 because of run on sentences and POV. Here they are though: ''At first, SDS focused on peaceful efforts to promote the civil rights movement and improve the conditions of the inner-city ghettos. However, it came to be known for the leading role that it played in student opposition to the Vietnam War. SDS went from being nonviolent to becoming increasingly militant, and certain splinter factions had a reputation for violent confrontation, including the Progressive Labor Party's Worker-Student Alliance faction, which fought racists on the streets; the Weathermen (Revolutionary Youth Movement I, later known as the "Weather Underground Organization" committing terrorist acts against the U.S. government; and the Revolutionary Union (Revolutionary Youth Movement II).'' [...] ''It is unclear what world political events, if any, in the future will give rise to another organization of SDS's caliber.'' The prediction which closed the entry seemed excessive. Also the contrast between nonviolence and miltancy is biased . The PLP-WSA citation should be referenced. The Weather Underground targeted prisons, and what else? Maybe a better paragraph could be build out of this, if someone has the sources. User:DJ Silverfish 16:36, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC) While in his most recent editing 69.138.67.42 did a good job of tightening up some of the article's loose prose (thank you), I'm concerned that we have lost the fact that it was RYM I that evolved into the Weathermen, and we have lost entirely the connection to the Revolutionary Student Brigade. I see those both as key points in understanding the later evolution/disintegration of SDS. I'm also concerned about removing Fonda's political history and dismissing her as "Hanoi Jane", an epithet given her by the far right. The "Hanoi Jane" moniker is appropriately discussed at length in the separate article on Fonda, but including it here in a discussion of SDS seems pejorative and dismissive. I plan to re-introduce the important points lost from DJ Silverfish's last version and remove the "Hanoi Jane" moniker from the Fonda reference, hopefully without losing the improvements 69.138.67.42 made. Any objections? User:Elmarco 12:20, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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