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Native American Time

Native American TimeBy John Collier The recent death of John Collier, who was best known for his service as U.S. Commissioner for Indian Affairs from 1933 to 1945, came as a shock to me. This may seem an extraordinary thing to write of a man of 84 living in very modest retirement in Ranchos de […] Continue reading

Native Americans Fight Back! (1968)

Native Americans Fight Back!By Robert D. Casey The fall fishing season here in the state of Washington opened with an almost inevitable confrontation between the Indian tribes, who were exercising their Treaty rights to earn a living by fishing their rivers, and the State, which is attempting to regulate this troublesome ethnic minority out of […] Continue reading

A Yippie Manifesto

A Yippie Manifesto by Jerry Rubin This is a Viet Cong flag on my back. During the recent hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee in Washington, a friend and I are walking down the street en route to Congress – he’s wearing an American flag and I’m wearing this VC flag. The cops mass, […] Continue reading

Radicals ‘Take on’ R.O.T.C. Cadets (1968)

About 75 radical students from the City College had a glorious time doing their thing yesterday morning which was to mock an equal number of R.O.T.C. cadets doing their thing – namely drilling. For two hours the students skipped, danced, scampered and tumbled around the cadets, like a swarm of gnats. Half the cadets, with […] Continue reading

How the Free Speech Movement Began (1969)

A multiple memoir of the New Left by MICHAEL ROSSMAN That man in Chicago or wherever, the one they were doing the operation on and his heart stopped unexpectedly, and they iced his head and all while they finally got it started again, but by every test known to medical science he was dead for […] Continue reading

Why Women Aren’t Liberated Yet (1969)

The Grand Coolie Damn By Marge Piercyhttps://www.margepiercy.com/The movement is supposed to be for human liberation: how come the condition of women inside it is no better than outside? We have been trying to educate and agitate around women’s liberation for several years. How come things are getting worse? Women’s liberation has raised the level of […] Continue reading

Underground Woman! (1970)

By Mary Moylan Mary Moylan was one of the Catonsville 9, who destroyed draft files at a Selective Service office in the suburbs of Baltimore on May 17, 1968. The 9 were convicted of two federal and four state crimes; appeals failed, and six were to begin serving their concurrent terms on April 9, 1970 […] Continue reading

Women’s Lib Organizations (1970)

By Karen Durbin In attempting to put together an alphabet soup of the women’s liberation movement, I began to feel that I was assembling some sort of descriptive telephone book for a small city. With each new discovered and defined group came inklings of a dozen others just beyond, until it became apparent that whatever […] Continue reading

Revolt in the High Schools (1969)

REVOLT IN THE HIGH SCHOOLS (1969) THE WAY IT’S GOING TO BE By DIANE DIVOKY THE words of the school board were unimpeachable: It is the aim of our high school to encourage students to freely express themselves, in writing or otherwise, as part of their educational program, What they meant, in fact, was that […] Continue reading