About 75 radical students from the City College had a glorious time doing their thing yesterday morning which was to mock an equal number of R.O.T.C. cadets doing their thing – namely drilling. For two hours the students skipped, danced, scampered and tumbled around the cadets, like a swarm of gnats. Half the cadets, with […] Continue reading →

A multiple memoir of the New Left by MICHAEL ROSSMAN That man in Chicago or wherever, the one they were doing the operation on and his heart stopped unexpectedly, and they iced his head and all while they finally got it started again, but by every test known to medical science he was dead for […] Continue reading →

The Grand Coolie Damn By Marge Piercyhttps://www.margepiercy.com/The movement is supposed to be for human liberation: how come the condition of women inside it is no better than outside? We have been trying to educate and agitate around women’s liberation for several years. How come things are getting worse? Women’s liberation has raised the level of […] Continue reading →

By Mary Moylan Mary Moylan was one of the Catonsville 9, who destroyed draft files at a Selective Service office in the suburbs of Baltimore on May 17, 1968. The 9 were convicted of two federal and four state crimes; appeals failed, and six were to begin serving their concurrent terms on April 9, 1970 […] Continue reading →

By Karen Durbin In attempting to put together an alphabet soup of the women’s liberation movement, I began to feel that I was assembling some sort of descriptive telephone book for a small city. With each new discovered and defined group came inklings of a dozen others just beyond, until it became apparent that whatever […] Continue reading →

REVOLT IN THE HIGH SCHOOLS (1969) THE WAY IT’S GOING TO BE By DIANE DIVOKY THE words of the school board were unimpeachable: It is the aim of our high school to encourage students to freely express themselves, in writing or otherwise, as part of their educational program, What they meant, in fact, was that […] Continue reading →

People of A New Age (1968) By Martin Jezer To experience the contours of the land, to feel its vibrations and penetrate its fogs and mists, is to begin to understand the fears and aspirations that shape its people. Early in May, Ray Mungo, Verandah Porche, Peter Simon, and I drove cross-country from San Francisco […] Continue reading →

The Peace and Freedom Party was organized on June 23, 1967 by social activists in the farm workers, civil rights, and anti-Vietnam War movements. Its initial registration drive began at a demonstration against Lyndon Johnson at the Century City Plaza in Los Angeles California. The party’s name has sometimes created confusion with the Women’s International […] Continue reading →

Redstockings Manifesto (1969) I. After centuries of individual and preliminary political struggle, women are united to achieve their final liberation from male supremacy. Redstockings is dedicated to building this unity and winning our freedom. II. Women are an oppressed class. Our oppression is total, affecting every facet of our lives. We are exploited as sex […] Continue reading →

Here is a great clip from the 1971 Peace March in Washington D.C. It has Peter, Paul and Mary singing Bob Dylan’s Blowin’ in the Wind and John Lennon’s Give Peace a Chance in front of half a million people on the Mall. What has happened to our country when we are still starting wars […] Continue reading →