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Who is Mark Rudd?
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), the largest radical student organization in the country in 1969, and a founder of the Weather Underground, a revolutionary guerilla group in the seventies. […]

Report of the talk plus pix of yours truly and Bertha.

Or, The Ordeal of Civility
A talk for the New Mexico Jewish Historical Society
November 12, 2005
By Mark Rudd
I’ve been thinking about this subject for a long time, almost forty years, so I want to begin by thanking the New Mexico Jewish Historical Society for giving me this opportunity to organize my ideas. I first spoke […]

Includes Letters to the Editor of the Albuquerque Journal reacting to the piece, “Mark Rudd is Still a Communist.”

This is the final draft of an article written for Harpers’ Magazine in the summer of 2005, accepted but never published. It is for a general audience.
Math Classroom, Fall, 2004
Somewhere very far away there’s an American war raging, but you wouldn’t know it in my classroom. Isolated even from the demands of their […]

for The Student Underground
5/20/05
It’s probably not a great idea to pursue an hallucination all the way to the end. Most likely the results will not be what you thought they would be, but 35 years ago we weren’t playing the probabilities.
There was this beautiful hallucination back then, roughly 1967-1970, that the world was about to […]

This is a letter written in 1987 from the essayist Peter Marin to journalist Gloria Emerson (now deceased). It was published in the December, 1987, issue of Harpers Magazine. She had solicited Marin’s thoughts on the Weathermen for an article on the twentieth anniversary of the occupation of Columbia University. I don’t […]