January 8, 2012
"In the spring of 1968, Gilbert (An SDSer and Weatherman) was called before the Columbia University faculty to discuss a possible student strike. He recalls the faculty asking: “Do you say you stand for democracy?” We said, “Yes, we do.” They said, “Would you stand by a referendum, of the students and faculty, everybody at the University?” … And I was really torn between what I considered fundamental issues and the commitment to democracy, participatory democracy, and I sort of hesitated and said, “Well we would stand by a referendum, as long as the people in Harlem, and people in Vietnam, who are the ones most affected by this, can vote, because that’s really participatory democracy.”23"

— Jeremy Varon. Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies (Kindle Locations 437-442). Kindle Edition. 

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January 5, 2012
"In the United States in the early 1960s, young, gifted thinkers, confessing a profound unease with the world they had inherited and calling themselves a New Left, judged their society by measuring it against its promise. (The United States of) America, in their view, had failed to live up to its democratic and egalitarian ideals."

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Talk about paralells of today

Jeremy Varon. Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies

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(Notes: 72)
  
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