Chicago MDS Convergence
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Chicago, IL - November 15, 2007. CHICAGO CONFIDENTIAL! Report on the First National Convergence of the Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS), with the Participation of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
It was a hectic week for activists in Chicago. There was the Select Media Festival, a Teaching for Social Justice Conference, a SNCC commemoration, the Humanities festival, a National Convention to End the Death Penalty, and Bob Brown’s law-suit against the corporations. And in nearby Berwyn, 37 Morton West High School students faced expulsion for holding an antiwar sit-in.
Not least, the Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS) held its first national convergence at Loyola University, from November 8 through 11 with the participation of the newly inspired SDS, Students for a Democratic Society.
Bill Ayers at the Resisting Endless War panel (Photo: Thomas Good / NLN)
Loyola provided fine meeting rooms in a maze-like setting on beautiful Lake Michigan. On Thursday night some eighty-plus people attended Manning Marable’s superb talk on South Africa, its increasing impoverishment and stratification caused by the demands of U.S. interests and investments. Marable spoke of the prison industry and observed that 1 in every 5 persons in the U.S. has a prison record. This has led to a mass disenfrachizment of black voters, especially in the south.
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