> I read this when it came out. Very interesting. A lot of it deals with people > that were in the Worker Student Alliance. A lot of radical history of this > time focused on The Weathermen. When in reality the WSA was much larger and > more active. My two cents worth.
That was my impression as well. I was in SUNY Stony Brook SDS, which was a large and active chapter that had demonstrations that stopped Army, CIA and Dow Chemical recruiters and took over a building to demand an end to DoD research contracts. I did not attend the 1969 convention. But after the split, I don’t think the Weathermen faction did much, or any, campus organizing. At our college SDS, we didn’t always agree but we didn’t split. I was in the WSA and worked in the dorm cafeteria (which I needed to do to pay expenses). We talked to non-student cafeteria workers about the war and a few accepted our invitations to come to SDS meetings. One was a leftist Cuban cook who loved Fidel and SDS, in that order. 1199 organized the couple hundred cafeteria employees into the union and SDS and workers took over the administration building to demand union recognition and bargaining for a contract. We had SDSers who didn’t particularly like the WSA but there was no organized Weathermen group. Of course, the press loved to report Weathermen antics but most of the organizing was done by others. Glenn -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6906): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/6906 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/81027794/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
