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SDS: A Graphic History & A Roundtable Discussion on Campus Activism with Paul Buhle
Friday Mar 21, 7PM @ 2640 (2640 St. Paul St.)
Don't miss this roundtable discussion, art exhibition, and reception celebrating the release of Paul Buhle's latest installment in a series of comic-based history books, SDS: A Graphic History! Come to 2640 and discuss the rise and fall, and the recent rebirth of Student for a Democratic Society, find out how you can get involved in SDS and other student-activist projects in the Baltimore/DC area, and hear Buhle's take on how and why the graphic format constitutes a new and necessary chapter in the writing of radical history. With Baltimore SDS and other student activists TBA; food & drink provided by Red Emma's.
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is an association of young people of the left. It seeks to create a sustained community of educational and political concern, one bringing together liberals, radicals, and revolutionaries, activists and scholars, students, staff, and faculty. It maintains a vision of democratic society, where at all levels the people have control of the decisions which affect them and the resources on which they are dependent. It seeks a relevance through the continual focus on realities and on programs necessary to effect change at the most basic levels of economic, political and social organization. It feels the urgency to put forth a radical, democratic program whose methods embody the democratic vision.
Find out more here: http://studentsforademocraticsociety.org/
Paul Buhle has been active in social movements since the appearance of the civil rights movement in his hometown of Champaign, Illinois, in 1960, and activity within the civil rights, peace, environmental, and labor movements, along with alternative cultures, has guided much of his research activity. He was the founder and editor of the SDS journal Radical America, and is, at the moment senior lecturer in history and American civilization at Brown University. He is coeditor, with Nicole Schulman, of Wobblies!: a Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World (Verso, 2005), and a regular contributor to two journals, TIKKUN and CNS (an environmental journal), while writing also for a wide variety of publications including The Chronicle of Higher Education, the San Francisco Chronicle (book section), The Guardian (UK), The Nation, New Labor Forum, The Oral History Review, among others. About SDS: A Graphic History
The History of SDS as You’ve Never Seen It Before
In 1962 at a United Auto Workers’ camp in Michigan, Students for a Democratic Society held its historic convention and prepared the famous Port Huron Statement, drafted by Tom Hayden. This statement, criticizing the U.S. government’s failure to pursue international peace or address domestic inequality, became the organization’s manifesto. Its last convention was held in 1969 in Chicago, where, collapsing under the weight of its notoriety and popularity, it shattered into myriad factions. Through brilliant art and they were-there dialogue, famed graphic novelist Harvey Pekar, gifted artist Gary Dumm, and renowned historian Paul Buhle illustrate the tumultuous decade that first defined and then was defined by the men and women who gathered under the SDS banner.Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History captures the idealism and activism that drove a generation of young Americans to believe that even one person’s actions can help transform the world.
“My own radical journey began with Mad Magazine, so it feels great that SDS should enter the culture of comic folklore thanks to Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle. May this graphic history be an informing contribution as a new generation of SDS writes its own story.” —Tom Hayden, founding member of the Students for a Democratic Society
“Hey! Did you know grandpa was a revolutionary? If you want the inside story from SDS veterans themselves, with a minimum of rhetoric and a maximum of sex, drugs, violence, and internal faction-fighting, check out this wonderful graphic history. Almost—but not quite—like being there. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and no cop will hit you over the head, either. Grandma and grandpa’s bedtime stories are guaranteed to get the children dreaming of their own anti-imperialist movement.” —Mark Rudd, a founder of the Weather Underground, the last National Secretary of SDS, and the Chairman of the Columbia University chapter of SDS during the 1968 student strike
“Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History brings the historical power of SDS to life for the new generation of SDS activists. At a time when the state repression and militarism of the 1960’s and 70’s finds its closest parallel in the Iraq War and the Patriot Act, this accessible book maps out the legacy of resistance our generation has inherited. This is mandatory reading for serious, young organizers who desire to combat oppression while avoiding the errors of their predecessors.” —Senia Barragan, Brown University/Providence SDS
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