Posted on 03/22/2008 1:09:55 AM PDT by tlb
About 50 members of the Students for a Democratic Society club at Shaker Heights High School poured out of Terminal Tower and joined another 30 students already at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. Thursday's protest against the war was the first for the "new" SDS in Cleveland.
This is not your grandfather's SDS from the '60s - but it kind of looked like it.
Josh Davidson, a leader of the Shaker Heights SDS, said students are drawn to the SDS for one reason: "The war is the focal point, definitely the focal point," he said.
The group was reconstituted in 2006 in Chicago. The SDS Web site claims to have 88 chapters, including ones at Shaker Heights High School, Lakeland Community College in Kirtland and Ohio University in Athens.
Shaker freshman Julia Celeste, 14, the granddaughter of former Ohio Gov. Richard Celeste, said weekly club meetings after school on Fridays usually draw 20 to 30 students. She admitted she was scared to death when she took a bullhorn and talked to Thursday's crowd of about 140 anti-war protesters.
Harvey Pekar of Cleveland Heights, the author of "Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History," said he felt that the war and the failing economy were key reasons that the new SDS was drawing members from blue-collar neighborhoods.
"The old SDS had an advantage the new SDS does not have. They had the draft," said Pekar, a Cleveland Heights resident.
Thursday's afternoon rally lasted a little more than an hour. After numerous speeches, Davidson announced it was time for the SDS members to go back to the rapid.
The demonstrators hadn't run out of things to say.
The bullhorn's battery died.
(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...
Clearasil Commies,
I’ll take door #2, Monty.
Harvey Pekar, The “American Splendor” idiot: http://www.harveypekar.com/
The Black panthers and the SDS in the news in the same week?
It’s deja vu all over again.
Ancient evil is stirring in Mordor.
LLS
Ah, the good old days.
And this is why you hear liberals (and only liberals) calling for a return of the draft. They know that it was mainly fear of forced military service that got so many young people to swallow their liberal fascist views and tactics.
ping
“Revived SDS joins anti-war protest” ..
and immediately endorses Barcak McGovern Obama!
Buncha Neo-Comms...
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