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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. “The whole idea of S.D.S. began with the idea of, ‘We need a new way of being on the left, a new vocabulary, a new strategy,’” said Mr. Flacks, who helped write the group’s manifesto, the Port Huron Statement, in 1962. “We knew we were right, and I don’t think we were arrogant about...

Richard Flacks remembers the challenges of building a protest movement during the Vietnam War as a pillar of the left-wing political and anti-war group Students for a Democratic Society during the 1960s. “The whole idea of SDS began with the idea of, ‘We need a new way of being on the left, a new vocabulary, a new strategy,’” said Flacks, who helped write the group’s manifesto, the Port Huron Statement, in 1962. “We knew we were right, and I don’t...

The war in Vietnam ignited a protest movement that helped define a generation. Is the war between Israel and Hamas doing the same thing?

(Archived document, may contain errors) 14 April 1981 CAMPAIGN FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY: PART THE INS77TUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES NETWORK (Executive Summary)

(Archived document, may contain errors) 14 April 1981 CAMPAIGN FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY: PART THE INS77TUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES NETWORK (Executive Summary)

Statements on racism and abortion have renewed a debate over institutional neutrality and free speech.

UCSB housing has not kept up with the increase in student enrollment.

The Odyssey of Todd Gitlin

Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors discusses its negotiations with the university, reportedly with an agenda item to consider initiating civil litigation