Still angry after 38 years: a pissed-off SDS member gets in his licks

The following is an unsolicited e-mail received Sept. 30, 2006, from Tom Cleaver in L.A. He graciously allowed me to post it here. Check out Tom’s blog at http://www.thatsanotherfinemess.com.
Mark:
My old friend Jeff Segal sent me the URL for your site and I’ve just been reading it.
You likely don’t remember me, but during the seven years […]

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Mark Goes to the Dark Side

My Talk at the FBI Training Academy in Quantico, VA
Presented on Nov. 18, 2005
Early last summer, out of the blue, I received an e-mail from an instructor at the FBI Training Academy in Quantico, Virginia, inviting me to speak to a terrorism class at the academy. This was a thing of great wonder to me. […]

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Who is Mark Rudd?

A biographical profile for those who don’t know the difference between M.R. and Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, besides the fact that he’s alive and they’re not.
July, 2005
Mark Rudd was a leader of the 1968 Columbia University strike against the Vietnam War and racism, the last National Secretary of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), […]

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Report from Israel/Palestine: Family trip, July, 2005

Dear Friends:
Marla and I just returned from eight days in Israel and Palestine. This is a quick description of our trip for family and friends. Oy vey iss mir!!!

Wall at Abu Dis near Jerusalem with painted ladder
The original purpose of the visit, as proposed by my brother and sister-in-law, David and Sue, was to attend […]

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Notes from the underground: ‘How could you do this to me?’ asks Mark Rudd’s Mom

by Robert Wiener
NJJN Staff Writer
In a moment of classic confrontation, the Jewish mother of one of America’s most prominent 1960s political radicals challenged her son before a packed auditorium, asking him to explain why he took part in violent protests, lived underground to avoid arrest, and didn’t call home for seven years.
Rising from her second-row […]

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