Comments on: Friday Athens SDS scored a major victory marked by a pinkie swear. http://radicalblogs.org/joshrussell/2007/02/09/friday-athens-sds-scored-a-major-victory-marked-by-a-pinkie-swear/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:20:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 by: Patrick St John http://radicalblogs.org/joshrussell/2007/02/09/friday-athens-sds-scored-a-major-victory-marked-by-a-pinkie-swear/#comment-8 Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:56:01 +0000 http://radicalblogs.org/joshrussell/2007/02/09/friday-athens-sds-scored-a-major-victory-marked-by-a-pinkie-swear/#comment-8 Fantastic post, I got the link from the Democratizing Education Network email list. FYI, I'm linking to you from my blog. :) Keep up the great work! - Patrick http://www.forstudentpower.org/ Fantastic post, I got the link from the Democratizing Education Network email list. FYI, I’m linking to you from my blog. :) Keep up the great work!

- Patrick

http://www.forstudentpower.org/

]]> by: paint the campus red ‘n’ black » What is Student-Syndicalism? http://radicalblogs.org/joshrussell/2007/02/09/friday-athens-sds-scored-a-major-victory-marked-by-a-pinkie-swear/#comment-7 Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:06:41 +0000 http://radicalblogs.org/joshrussell/2007/02/09/friday-athens-sds-scored-a-major-victory-marked-by-a-pinkie-swear/#comment-7 [...] I thought that maybe posting this conversation I’ve been having with Mark Rudd over e-mail might be useful to some who are interested in knowing about student-syndicalism. Mark Rudd, for those who don’t know, is known for his involvement with the Weather Underground Organization (WUO) which was an extra-militant split off from the old Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). I was told by a friend to e-mail him about Wayne State University SDS’s divestment campaign. Here’s a part of the conversation, to put it in context, I had asked him what Tacoma, WA SDS thought of our divestment idea, and he’s referencing the recent Ohio University SDS anti-free-speech-zone demonstration. Hi Aaron: I didn’t get an immediate response from Patrick at Tacoma, other than he thought divestment a good idea. I’ll pursue it with him. Did you see Joshua Russell’s report on the organizing at U. of Ohio Athens? It’s related to yours in a student syndicalist way. Incidentally, could you define student syndicalism for me? I seem to have forgotten my Carl Davidson. [...] […] I thought that maybe posting this conversation I’ve been having with Mark Rudd over e-mail might be useful to some who are interested in knowing about student-syndicalism. Mark Rudd, for those who don’t know, is known for his involvement with the Weather Underground Organization (WUO) which was an extra-militant split off from the old Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). I was told by a friend to e-mail him about Wayne State University SDS’s divestment campaign. Here’s a part of the conversation, to put it in context, I had asked him what Tacoma, WA SDS thought of our divestment idea, and he’s referencing the recent Ohio University SDS anti-free-speech-zone demonstration. Hi Aaron: I didn’t get an immediate response from Patrick at Tacoma, other than he thought divestment a good idea. I’ll pursue it with him. Did you see Joshua Russell’s report on the organizing at U. of Ohio Athens? It’s related to yours in a student syndicalist way. Incidentally, could you define student syndicalism for me? I seem to have forgotten my Carl Davidson. […]

]]> by: Erkki KochKetola http://radicalblogs.org/joshrussell/2007/02/09/friday-athens-sds-scored-a-major-victory-marked-by-a-pinkie-swear/#comment-6 Sun, 11 Feb 2007 03:00:12 +0000 http://radicalblogs.org/joshrussell/2007/02/09/friday-athens-sds-scored-a-major-victory-marked-by-a-pinkie-swear/#comment-6 Woo! Way to go, guys! Keep up the good work! Woo! Way to go, guys!

Keep up the good work!

]]> by: agntdnl http://radicalblogs.org/joshrussell/2007/02/09/friday-athens-sds-scored-a-major-victory-marked-by-a-pinkie-swear/#comment-5 Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:46:54 +0000 http://radicalblogs.org/joshrussell/2007/02/09/friday-athens-sds-scored-a-major-victory-marked-by-a-pinkie-swear/#comment-5 Further (less rosy) coverage in the aftermath: ' Vision Ohio session draws brief crowd' http://thepost.baker.ohiou.edu/articles/1970/12/31/news/17464.html ' Student Senate: Protesters answered by student affairs VP' http://thepost.baker.ohiou.edu/articles/2007/02/08/news/17553.html Anyhow, just thought I'd drop you a line saying how impressed I was with your facilitation of the post-demo meeting. Either RAN trains really well, you have your shit together or both. Your techniques were really good a breaching the 'uh, so we're all in a room together but i don't feel like interacting' uncertainty. IT WAS SWEET. I also liked your reflections in the previous post regarding the uniformity of the marchers. I agree, while anti-authoritarians (and the like) often have a reactionary digust of things like 'uniforms' and sameness at the same time it can be very powerful. the end. in solidarity, your new facebok friend, daniel Further (less rosy) coverage in the aftermath:

‘ Vision Ohio session draws brief crowd’
http://thepost.baker.ohiou.edu/articles/1970/12/31/news/17464.html

‘ Student Senate: Protesters answered by student affairs VP’
http://thepost.baker.ohiou.edu/articles/2007/02/08/news/17553.html

Anyhow, just thought I’d drop you a line saying how impressed I was with your facilitation of the post-demo meeting. Either RAN trains really well, you have your shit together or both. Your techniques were really good a breaching the ‘uh, so we’re all in a room together but i don’t feel like interacting’ uncertainty. IT WAS SWEET.

I also liked your reflections in the previous post regarding the uniformity of the marchers. I agree, while anti-authoritarians (and the like) often have a reactionary digust of things like ‘uniforms’ and sameness at the same time it can be very powerful. the end.

in solidarity, your new facebok friend,
daniel

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