Anti-Vietnam War Groups - Students for a Democratic Society, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Students for a Democratic Society, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, United NLF Groups, Peace and Freedom Party, Another Mother for Peace, The Camden 28, Washington Peace Center, Youth Liberation of Ann Arbor, Vietnam Day Committee, National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, National Black Antiwar Antidraft Union, Vietnam Veterans Against The War Anti-Imperialist, Beheiren, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, Norwegian Movement for Vietnam, American Writers Against the Vietnam War, Catholic Association for International Peace, Workers Front for Indochina, Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam, Solidarity Front for the People of Indochina, The Shelter Half, Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace, American Deserters Committee, Peace and World Affairs Center of Evanston, National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam, Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee. Excerpt: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations of the country's New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969. SDS has been an important influence on student organizing in the decades since its collapse. Participatory democracy, direct action, radicalism, student power, shoestring budgets, and its organizational structure are all present in varying degrees in current American student activist groups. Though various organizations have been formed in subsequent years as proposed national networks for left-wing student organizing, none has approached the scale of SDS, and most have lasted a few years at best. A new incarnation of SDS was founded in 2006. SDS developed ...