[Marxism] SDS Regional Conference

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

PRESS RELEASE: SDS Regional Conference

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
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www.studentsforademocraticsociety.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Bert Garskof
203.393.3213
bgarskof@xxxxxxxxxxxx

April 13, 2006

Bethany, Ct. April 13, 2006. Long time anti-war activist Thomas Good, 47
year old member of the Industrial Workers of the World and the War
Resistors League living in New York City announced today that on April
23rd, the first regional conference will be held by the new Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS). Good who is helping organize the conference
explained that the new SDS is significantly different from the old SDS.
"First off, it's multi-generational," said Good. "Secondly, I am hopeful
that our brand of participatory democracy will provide a true umbrella for
student and other activists who are into a decentralized, grassroots
approach." Good reported that in only a few months of activity, the re-born
SDS has established seventy-seven chapters nationwide.

Paul Buhle, a historian at Brown University and SDS activist in the 1960s
is enthusiastically at work planning the conference. Buhle said, "The voice
of the young and the most democratic social movement of the 1960s, is back
again...with a new generation."

More than thirty years ago, during the height of the anti-Vietnam War
movement, SDS was the most important student activist organization in the
United States. SDS reached the pinnacle of its influence in 1968 and then
fragmented and fell apart in 1969. Now a group of present day student
activists along with members of SDS active in the 60s, have joined together
to form a new SDS to further the already re-emerging campus and community
progressive anti-war and social justice movement.

All people interested in finding out about or becoming involved in the new
SDS are invited to attend the regional conference to be held on Sunday
April 23, 2006 from 11:00am - 6:00pm in Salomon Hall at Brown University in
Providence Rhode Island. Attendance is free.

Speakers include student activist Alana Makowitz who organized a new
chapter of SDS at Salve Regina University. Also speaking are Thomas Good
and Patrick Korte, two of the organizers of the new SDS, and Ambre Ivol
from the Sorbonne who will report on the French student movement. Speakers
from the sixties SDS include Bob Ross, one of the organization's founders,
former national president, Carl Oglesby, Paul Buhle, former editor of SDS
magazine, "Radical America," and Bernadine Dohrn, former SDS national
leader and founding member of the Weather Underground.

For Conference details see www.studentsforademocraticsociety.org

For information contact Bert Garskof (Former Faculty Advisor to Michigan
State University SDS) 203.393.3213, Cell 203.232.8455 or bgarskof@xxxxxxxxxxxx

For interviews with speakers contact Bert Garskof at the conference
203.232.8455

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