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PACE Faculty Protests Student Arrests On Campus


New York, NY - December 11, 2006.  Pace University faculty from both the New York and Westchester campuses will assemble at 1 Pace Plaza in Lower Manhattan Monday afternoon at 12:30 PM to express their views regarding the recent arrests of five individuals on the Pace University campus.
Three Pace students and two local activists were […]

PACE FACULTY PROTEST STUDENT ARRESTS ON CAMPUS


*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*
PACE FACULTY PROTEST STUDENT ARRESTS ON CAMPUS
contact: Dr. Amy Foerster afoerster@pace.edu
Dr. Christopher Malone cmalone@pace.edu
Dr. Roger Salerno rsalerno@pace.edu
Dr. Thomas Henthorne thenthorne@pace.edu
Dr. Sid Ray gray@pace.edu
Pace University faculty from both the New York and Westchester campuses
will assemble at 1 Pace Plaza in Lower Manhattan Monday afternoon at 12:30
PM to express their views regarding the recent arrests […]

New Yorkers rally for Daniel McGowan - and against the “Green Scare”


Daniel McGowan (Photo: www.supportdaniel.org)
Environmentalists, civil liberties advocates, and family, friends, and supporters will gather at a rally at Foley Square (Centre and Pearl Streets) in Manhattan, at 12:30pm on Thursday, December 7, to support New York City activist Daniel McGowan. Exactly one year ago, Daniel was arrested by federal agents at his place of work, […]

SDS Meeting!


New School SDS will be holding its general meeting on Tuesday, December 12th in Rm. 101 (Student Activities Space) at 55 13th St. We will be discussing:
1. Teach-In! A success? Criticism and discussion on what we did well, what we didn’t do, what to keep in mind for the future. When will the next Teach-In […]

Shafting The Vets


“Shafting The Vets”
by Conn Hallinan

“War is hell,” Union General William Tecumseh Sherman famously said 14 years after the end of the bloodiest conflict in US history. “It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation.”
Clearly the […]

First Teach-In A Success!


The New School chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held it first teach-in on Tuesday, December 5th in the Eugene Lang Cafeteria on 11th St. The event, “U.S. Imperialism & Campus Resistance”, was the first in a series of teach-ins to be held at the New School in the months to come. […]

New on Radical Americas: Impressions of Vietnam by Robert Pardun


New on www.RadicalAmericas.org: Robert Pardun’s “Impressions of Viet Nam”.

Photo of Robert Pardun: Shire Press
From The Editor’s introduction: Robert Pardun was a co-founder of the influential University of Texas at Austin SDS chapter in 1964. Later that same year he became an SDS regional traveller. In 1967 he was elected SDS Internal Education Secretary and spent […]

Impressions of Vietnam


Editor’s note: Robert Pardun was a co-founder of the influential University of Texas at Austin SDS chapter in 1964. Later that same year he became an SDS regional traveller. In 1967 he was elected SDS Internal Education Secretary and spent much of 1967-68 working at the National Office in Chicago. Robert has chronicled his experiences […]

Students, Faculty and Labor Denounce Wrongful Arrest of Pace SDSers


A member of SDS New York stands vigil outside the 1st Precinct (Photo: Thomas Good)
New York, NY - November 20, 2006. Wednesday, November 15th began quietly enough in lower Manhattan. However, by day’s end a large group of SDS, armed with pots and pans, would be vigiling outside a New York City police precinct - […]

John Brown Caucus Statement On The NYPD Murder/Shooting


Why is the NYPD still shooting young unarmed black men?
How could the spectre of three African American males sitting in a car unleash a barrage of police firepower (50 bullets) enough to leave one man dead and two others fighting for their lives? Rather than preparing for his wedding day, why was bridegroom-to-be Sean Bell […]