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Fifth Column
SDS returns from the grave
2006-01-30
4 generations of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) activists are working to link the local chapters that have sprung up independently since the Iraq War began into a national organization.
"Independently" my arse. Somebody must be pouring lots of dough into reviving the SDS® brand. Let's follow the money, shall we?
yes - it should prove particularly interesting in this election year and the runup to 2008
Start with Medea Benjamin and peek into the Tides Foundation ...
SDS founder Alan Haber likes to say he is "waiting for the next meeting of SDS". He won't have to wait long...the next SDS national conference, the first since 1969, is planned for this summer.
Guest starring the Cindy Sheehan Revue, no doubt.
Several chapters of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) announced today, Monday, January 16, 2006, their intent to form a national organization and hold the first SDS national convention since 1969. "It seemed appropriate to make this announcement today, on the observed Martin Luther King day", said SDS regional organizer Thomas Good. "We have an anti-war movement that is addressing the issue of stopping the bloodletting in Iraq but the civil rights issue remains unaddressed", he added. The national convention is scheduled for Summer 2006 and will be preceeded by a series of regional conferences occurring on the Memorial Day weekend...
Posted by: Anonymoose

#14  TAF, so long as you don't follow them in their indulgences, there's no reason you'd follow them in their timing.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-01-30 20:50  

#13  This is almost as pathetic as the Rolling Stones latest concert tour.
Posted by: RWV   2006-01-30 12:12  

#12  The best and only hope is for nature to take its course: DEATH by natural (or in the case of many of these hippies, massive narcotics use that results in death by unnatural) causes.

Problem: I'm only about 12 years younger than these asshats, so as they die off ... guess who's next in line.
Posted by: The Angry Fliegerabwehrkanonen   2006-01-30 11:52  

#11  I wonder if zombie hippies smell any different from the living kind...
/cue Romerero soundtrack
"Bonnngs...bonnngs..."
Posted by: N guard   2006-01-30 10:07  

#10  ...the next SDS national conference, the first since 1969, is planned for this summer.

Rise up! Rise up hippie zombies!! Arise from the undead!!!
Posted by: tu3031   2006-01-30 08:46  

#9  Soros
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-01-30 08:25  

#8  National Guard - 4
Kent State - 0
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-01-30 08:13  

#7  Can we bring back Kent State, too?
Posted by: 11A5S   2006-01-30 07:14  

#6  Also see the excellent article "Rosenberg Reruns". The physical and spiritual descendants of Soviet spies executed in 1953 have taken their show on the road, appearing with celebrities such as Harry Belafonte.
Posted by: Crairong Omomotch6492   2006-01-30 02:30  

#5  dang--I meant "subversives"
Posted by: Crairong Omomotch6492   2006-01-30 01:47  

#4  The Soviet Union went bankrupt & out of business a while ago, but the KGB didn't, i.e. look who's in charge of Russia now. After 1989 the USA had a large group of unemployed radicals whose god had died, and Russia, its unemployed spies and subsersives. Combine that with Wahhabi money, and you have many of the key ingredients to today's world.
Posted by: Crairong Omomotch6492   2006-01-30 01:47  

#3  Names of the older ones please.

BTW... in the Viet period the ruskies gave them 13 billion. They gave 1/2 bill to the Weather Underground to get lost. The rest was supposed to be spent buying land for the PC-Correct Peasants in the Rocky Mountains so they could have land owning peasant supporters and be of the people at a later date. This didn't happen so somebody(ies) got the money.. accountant time...
Posted by: 3dc   2006-01-30 01:00  

#2  Well, the origin of the SDS was at a conference financed by the United Auto Workers. This incarnation probably has some DNC money behind it.
Posted by: Formerly Dan   2006-01-30 00:53  

#1  OMFG, do these people have no new ideas whatsoever?

Ya know, in some ways the antiwar left reminds of those japaneese soldiers left in isolated outposts after WW II. They are so defined by what they were, that to give up would leave them with no point or purpose whatsoever.

I wonder who's paying for this, now that the Soviet Union is history.
Posted by: N guard   2006-01-30 00:28  

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