January 7, 2012
"In governing itself by means of participatory democracy, SDS sought to model the new, vigorously democratic society it desired."

— Jeremy Varon. Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies (Kindle Location 332). Kindle Edition. 

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(Notes: 45)
  
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January 6, 2012
"It is time to stop fearing ideology and lay the basis for a new one, more suitable to the times"

— SDS, More power than we know.

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(Notes: 28)
  
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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)
  
Filed under: 1960 New Left Occupy Everything Together Leftism Socialism Communism Internationalism Youth Movements 
December 16, 2011
PHENOMENALLY IMPORTANT VIDEO: Egyptian military taunts, abuses, assaults protesters, TODAY DEC 16th.

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(Notes: 31)
  
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October 24, 2011
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations."

— George Orwell (via philphys)

(via brooklynmutt)

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(Notes: 786)
  
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