The New Students for a Democratic Society will be having its first Los Angeles meeting
Saturday. February 11. 1 PM Peace Center, 8124 West 3rd St. Los Angeles. Just west of Crescent Heights, (west of La Brea.) You can call me at 818 782 1412 for further info. (Im just one of a number of folks calling this first meeting). This meeting is open to all, you don't have to be a student, there is actually a related group called Movement for a Democratic Society which can also be developed. This is just may attitude but I suggest anyone attending be interested in building this new effort rather than trying to used it for ones or any particular agenda. The group has to be built first and have some internal integrity before it can start to develop effective actions and programs. And I would suggest it stay away from the regular laundry list of progressive and left slogans. No one else cares about these. One of our ideas was to first relate to people where they are at, rather than making them first sign off on our ideas. Here are some Web links: The Los Angeles List server you can join: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The main Website: <http://studentsforademocraticsociety.org>\ The National List Serve: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://studentsforademocraticsociety.org/mailman/listinfo/la_studentsforademocraticsociety.org>, Very briefly, SDS was formed in the early Sixties as an off shot of the League for Industrial Democracy, which was a part of the Socialist Movement at the time. It came to prominence in 1965 by holding the first large national anti-war demonstration in Washington DC. One of its founding principles was "participatory democracy", which meant that we all get to participate in the decisions that affect our lives, rather than voting every 4 years and letting others make those decisions. It became a radical activist group, doing the most bold and innovation actions and programs of the Sixties. It held, for the most part, its democratic underpinnings in is own meetings and actions. It became one of the most powerful groups of the Sixties, with over 100,000 official members and at least 1,000,000 participants in it's actions and programs. John Johnson Change-Links Progressive Newspaper [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.change-links.org Subscribe to our list server. Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 782-1412 Cell (818) 681-7448. === --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
