What is women’s liberation? It is simply organized rage against real oppression. Recently a woman phoned to say she had just had an abortion at one of the best hospitals in the District of Columbia. Because she couldn’t find a doctor to help her before, she couldn’t have the abortion until her fifth month of […] Continue reading →

This is the first official document of the SDS, Students for A Democratic Society issued in Port Huron, Michigan, June 1962. Founding member, Tom Hayden helped create the draft this document. This is only the beginning of the document. INTRODUCTION: AGENDA FOR A GENERATION We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest […] Continue reading →

By Paul Potter, President of SDS MOST OF US grew up thinking that the United States was a strong but humble nation, that involved itself in world affairs only reluctantly, that respected the integrity of other nations and other systems, and that engaged in wars only as a last resort. This was a nation with […] Continue reading →

This is the text of a speech by Carl Oglesby, the president of the SDS. The position he presents here is what for many represents the core of hippie activism. 100,000 students joined the SDS on 400 campus across the US. As you can see NOTHING has changed in the past 37 years! We are […] Continue reading →

WHAT is patriotism? Is it love of one’s birthplace, the place of childhood’s recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations ? Is it the place where, in childlike naivete, we would watch the fleeting clouds, and wonder why we, too, could not run so swiftly? The place where we would count the milliard glittering stars, terror-stricken […] Continue reading →

A Prayer for America by US Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio) (to be sung as an overture for America) My country ’tis of thee. Sweet land of liberty of thee I sing. . . . From every mountain side, let freedom ring. . . . Long may our land be bright. With freedom’s holy light. […] Continue reading →

From the time that hippie became a common term applied to a recognizable but mysterious phenomenon, the question of the political behavior of hippies became significant. The general snap conclusion was quite upsetting to most student activists. Hippie, to them, meant drop-out, from political behavior as well as everything else. Many, especially in the East, […] Continue reading →

Obama Speaks Out on Race The following speech by Barak Obama on the subject of Race was inspired by the racial debate that has soured the Democratic Primaries. His goal is to take America beyond race by confronting the long-standing issues that underly them rather than ignoring those issues. “We the people, in order to […] Continue reading →

THE goal written on the university walls was Create two, three, many Columbias; it meant expand the strike so that the U.S. must either change or send its troops to occupy American campuses. At this point the goal seems realistic; an explosive mix is present on dozens of campuses where demands for attention to student […] Continue reading →