In Campus Protests Over Gaza, Echoes of Outcry Over Vietnam
Richard Flacks remembers the challenges of building a protest movement during the Vietnam War as a pillar of the left-wing political and antiwar group Students for a Democratic Society during the 1960s. โThe whole idea of S.D.S. began with the idea of, โWe need a new way of being on the left, a new vocabulary, a new strategy,โโ said Mr. Flacks, who helped write the groupโs manifesto, the Port Huron Statement, in 1962. โWe knew we were right, and I donโt think we were arrogant about...
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