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Students for a Democratic Society (REBELS WITH A CAUSE)


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Students for a Democratic Society (REBELS WITH A CAUSE)

 

Who Knew that the 20 somethings not just from the 60’s but even to today, would reshape the landscape of this year presidential election.

 

This movement of SDS back in the 60's is similar to what influences our Twenty Somethings to our Current day.Both groups fear the fact that they too, may have to be drafted into a War that has been spoken of as unconstitutional. And out of these fears they fight back out of self preservation. But what is even more telling is that te students of today have and are being taught by the students of the 60’s. They are there mentors their Profesors and the heads of colleges and universities and this is there Revolution.

 

As a Nation we look back at that time of the 60’s students. And we look at the students who burned flags, bras and draft cards with protest, they felt then that America there Nation has suppressed and is the Monster for all who have less in this world, may it be enviromentalism , economic injustices such as poverty, gay rights such as same sex marriages all the way to animal rights activist to many of the ism’s that there may be. They want to blame there country.

 

With this many professors are teaching socialism is good, and that the very rich of this world need to share the wealth, and that though government making and mandating rules and laws these changes that they want will be done for the better regardless of what it will take.

 

The problem with this is, that if a group doesn’t feel that they are getting what they want, they may become just like those in the Black Panther movement or their allies the Weather Underground and start there own revolution of change. And we all know what those two groups represented and the destruction and Terror they caused.

 

But do the New Students for a Democratic Society realize that they are being used as Pawns for such radicals such as Jeff Jones, an environmental activist who was a former SDS officer and one of the founders of the Weather Underground?

 

The new 20 somethings thinking, has been shaped by some of these radicals who have produced there own documentary called, REBELS WITH A CAUSE that features interviews with 28 SDS activists, including Jane Adams, Bill Ayers, Carolyn Craven, Carl Davidson, Bernardine Dohrn, Alice Embree, Dick Flacks, Todd Gitlin, Carol Glassman, Juan Gonzalez, Alan Haber, Casey Hayden, Tom Hayden, Mark Kleiman, Sue Eanet Klonsky, Sharon Jeffrey Lehrer, Steve Max, Jeff Shero Nightbyrd, Carl Oglesby, Robert Pardun, Judy Schiffer Perez, Bob Ross, Vivian Leburg Rothstein, Mike Spiegel, Elizabeth Stanley, Marilyn Salzman Webb, Cathy Wilkerson, and Junius Williams.

 

I am sure not all of these are interviewed in this documentary are not Socialist but just Radicals who want to be heard.

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I almost went to a New SDS meeting, purely because I was wondering why anyone would want to restart an organization I had heard so many negative things about.

 

I didn't end up attending, and I heard that very few people did.

 

T, there's just no comparing the situation in the late 60's to today's youth. There's no draft, the war isn't being fought nearly as inhumanely as was Vietnam (in terms of human rights abuses), and opposition to the Iraq War isn't tied to some larger pacifist or Marxist ideology.

 

Most of the people I know who are involved in the anti-Iraq war movement aren't vehemently opposed to the NATO mission in Afghanistan.

 

Similarly, people aren't involved in one big ideological movement. If they care about low-income workers, they get involved in the Student Labor Action Movement. If they care about the Iraq war, they get involved in the anti-war coalition. And if they feel like they ought to be doing more, they volunteer in an after-school program or go help inmates study for the GED exam.

 

Students these days are much more practical, perhaps a little more self-interested, and definitely far less ideological than their parents were during the 60's. If you're afraid there's going to be a revolution, I can assure you it won't be starting on a college campus.

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I almost went to a New SDS meeting, purely because I was wondering why anyone would want to restart an organization I had heard so many negative things about.

 

I didn't end up attending, and I heard that very few people did.

 

T, there's just no comparing the situation in the late 60's to today's youth. There's no draft, the war isn't being fought nearly as inhumanely as was Vietnam (in terms of human rights abuses), and opposition to the Iraq War isn't tied to some larger pacifist or Marxist ideology.

 

Most of the people I know who are involved in the anti-Iraq war movement aren't vehemently opposed to the NATO mission in Afghanistan.

 

Similarly, people aren't involved in one big ideological movement. If they care about low-income workers, they get involved in the Student Labor Action Movement. If they care about the Iraq war, they get involved in the anti-war coalition. And if they feel like they ought to be doing more, they volunteer in an after-school program or go help inmates study for the GED exam.

 

Students these days are much more practical, perhaps a little more self-interested, and definitely far less ideological than their parents were during the 60's. If you're afraid there's going to be a revolution, I can assure you it won't be starting on a college campus.

 

Al, you are correct but the media is controled coming out of Afganastan and Iraq, the pentagon has learned there lesson from Vietnam. Do you think that people here in america would support a draft? i dontthink so, you would have protests just like we saw in the 60's

 

but like i said above nowdays its not just about the war, it can be over any thing here is a quote of what i said.

 

As a Nation we look back at that time of the 60’s students. And we look at the students who burned flags, bras and draft cards with protest, they felt then that America there Nation has suppressed and is the Monster for all who have less in this world, may it be enviromentalism , economic injustices such as poverty, gay rights such as same sex marriages all the way to animal rights activist to many of the ism’s that there may be. They want to blame there country.

 

Now dont get me wrong, I am in full support of our troops over there, if we look at the big picture and look on a map we have Iran pretty much surrounded, and they do pose a nuclear threat to us and our allias. What we will need to watch is the threats of Russia and the conflict going on in southern Georgia.

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So whats your point T?

 

The republicans should support abortion, illegals, black panther, plo, marxishm, more taxes, so they can win tuesday?

 

 

Not at all I am Pointing out People are Suckered in to these organizations and become radicals themselves.

 

Its almost like a cult following.

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other than acorn stuffing ballots, i called it right!

 

it was the twenty somethings that pushed he envelope.

 

lets see how they vote once they settle down with a family, we will see then what type of values they hold.

 

 

given the curent economy that we are in, i will speculate that the twenty somethings will become more conservative within the next 8 years.

 

most will come to grips with how they have been manipulated by the left.

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