SDS New Left Notes weatherman Vietnam era antiwar urban terrorist group 8/29/69

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SDS NEW LEFT NOTES vol. 4, Number 29 August 29, 1969. 8 pages. New Left Notes, 1608 West Madison street, Chicago, Illinois.
The paper is yellowed and somewhat soiled with a few small rips but the copy is intact as you will see in the photos.  It is addressed to Steve Raudenbush in Somerville, MA who was probably the Harvard '68 grad who is a big liberal PhD expert on Sociology of Education with a minority affirmative action point of view.  This paper was liberated from the SDS National Headquarters  on Mass Ave. Boston after the split in SDS (the Boston group was associated with Progressive Labor Party a Maoist oriented group.)
OK you want to know more:
http://emperors-clothes.com/exhumed.htm
the following is an excerpt from:
The
Provocateur
Exhumed
by
Jared Israel
[Nov. 2, 2008]
"For example, the Weathermen adopted as their hero one Marion Delgado, who they claimed was a Mexican-American child that put a slab of concrete on some railroad tracks, derailing a train and killing many people. I don't know if this tragedy in fact occurred, but that’s what the Weathermen wrote in their version of
New Left Notes
. And they adopted as their slogan “Marion Delgado - Live Like Him!” So, a) Weatherman advocated emulating a murderously disturbed child. And b) in specifically choosing a murderously disturbed
Chicano
child, and presenting him as the poster-child of their “revolutionary struggle,” in what they called “the belly of the beast,” they revealed the profound depth of racism that underlay their phony fight against “white skin privilege.” Yeah, they wanted to serve third world people. On a plate."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Israel
bio.
This is a
very very rare piece of antiwar literature
that can not be found easily because It is an embarrassment to the New Left.  The photo sucks Bravado and Romanticism from SDS fringe group Weatherman whose urban Al-Qaeda like terrorism was a very curious perversion of the antiwar movement.  Forty years later this faction is being sanitized by aging apologist revisionist writers mainly because of the President's out of character associations with Bill Ayers.  This newspaper was published before Weatherman went underground. This issue announces "we're bringing the war home October 8-11, and then back to every city in America."   This issue is rare stuff. This issue is pre-Kent State.  This issue is insane.
on the cover a huge photo over which is written 'BRING THE WAR HoME!" under the photo it says: WITH A DEFIANT SMILE, 5-YEAR-OLD MARION DELGADO SHOWS HOW HE PLACED A 25-POUND CONCRETE SLAB ON THE TRACKS AND WRECKED A
PASSENGER TRAIN"
This clearly signifies an organization that had devolved into a psychotic phase when young zealots like their counterparts during the French Revolution, German National Socialists era, Red Guard period, became hysterical.  This issue undermines statements from a book,
Fugitive Days
, written by Bill Ayers, who was/is admired by, an influencer of, and confidant of President Barack Obama.  Some would say: "who cares" or as Cambridge poet  Longfellow put it: "Let the dead past bury the dead", yet in an historical context this rare newspaper sets the record straight.  It can make a fine gift for a library or historical, political,  sociological, or even, psychological research institute.
Indeed, Ayers tries to make light of the use of Marion Delgado by his SDS faction. According to History Professor Jesse Lemisch: "There are too many inaccuracies in Fugitive Days to list here. Some are petty: Howdy Doody fans will wonder whether Ayers's "Uncle Bob" (24) is the same as "Buffalo Bob."
But some of the errors reflect political blind spots. One such error concerns Marion Delgado, who was a kind of a Weather saint, but Ayers can't even keep his hagiography straight. A photo of Marion, a five- year-old Chicano boy, smiling and holding up a piece of concrete, appeared in the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) weekly paper, New Left Notes, with a caption indicating that he had caused a train wreck with his concrete. Weatherpeople began, in homage to this act, to sign and present themselves as "Marion Delgado." But Ayers (144) places this event in Italy
-- with all of Weather's third worldism, he can't tell the difference between Italians and Mexicans (or Californians) -- and says that the train that Delgado derailed was a freight train, and that nobody was hurt. Inaccuracies aside, it's bizarre for a political group to admire this child's act. In a learned disquisition on Marion, Kirkpatrick Sale, SDS (New York 1973), 605n explains that Marion had derailed a passenger train in California in 1947. Ayers's changing a passenger train to a freight train, and his stress on the claim that there were thus no injuries, is one of many sanitizations in his book."http://www.wpunj.edu/newpol/issue41/Lemisch41.htm
The organization was splitting up: page 2 "Why I Quit" by Mike Klonsky  Goodbye, Mike by Mark Rudd and Terry Robbins; page 3: Colorado: We saw that this would not be a peace march but a war march. Page 4,5: BREAK ON THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE by Motor City SDS; page 6: masthead citing Bill Ayers, Education Secretary, Page 7 full page PEOPLE'S WAR poster THE GREATEST INVENTION OF THE 20th CENTURY CHICAGO-OCT 11; page 8 (backpage) SDS leaders busted, Hundreds fight for jobs, Puerto Ricans Rebel, frame-up in Cleveland; Young Lords open Day Care Center (Chicago).
This is an important collection of New Left viewpoints in SDS that were in the air during the intellectual orgy that took place in the late 60's and early 70's. Somehow these discussions and arguments had their effect on the psyche of the coming to age youth of the time who are in their 50's and 60's today.....
Take Cambridge neighbor Prof. Gates whose national Howl in search of a presidential fix romanticized a past he was too young to experience but publicly reenacted as performance art ritual, an angry youth of yesteryear...why? Perhaps because protesting was romantic, yea, simplistic back then...black/white...left/right...idealist/materialist. What a shock to be living and thinking in a 60's dreamy fog...then...bam! like Rip Van Winkle find yourself in a new millennium.
This SDS New Left Notes paper may be dangerous...clearly the people who put it together thought they somehow were. Buy this rare issue and get into the liberation vortex of often hysterical ideation that is now guiding our nation.
This newspaper is from an archive used by a composer for the creation of two American operas one being:
SDS New Left Notes -New Millennium Prometheus
(the only monument to the Antiwar Activist)
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