Mark Rudd's Web Page
(Yes, this is the Mark Rudd from the sixties)
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NEW: Paper by Doug Viehmeyer of North Jersey SDS, "Steppin' It Up: The New SDS" If you're curious about the new SDS and anti-war movement strategy, check this out.
NEW: Talk presented to first MDS meeting, Feb. 17, 2007 on the death of SDS, nonviolence, and the war.
Speech at Nov. 4 Drew University conference: "1968, Organizing vs. Activism"
Check out a report of the talk plus pix of yours truly and Bertha at Next Left Notes
Also, check out the revival of two great oldies: Links to
Students for a Democratic Society and Movement for a Democratic Society
Mark Goes to the Dark Side: My talk at the FBI Training Academy, Quantico, VA. (!!??!!)
New: Ten Questions on Movement Building by Dan Berger and Andy Cornell. Long but worthwhile discussion of problems of rebuilding a student movement by two really smart guys. With comment from Mark to Dan and Andy.
New: Letter from Mark on resurrection of SDS and MDS
New: Still angry after 38 years: a pissed-off SDS member gets in his licks.
New: Link to Stew Albert's Yippie Reading Room (RIP)
The best thing ever written about the Weathermen: A 1987 letter by Peter Marin
Mark's Recent writing
New: "The Kids Are Alright," written Summer, 2005, for Harpers' Magazine, but never published
"Why Were There So Many Jews in SDS?" (paper written for New Mexico Jewish Historical Society)
LA Times Op-Ed (by MR) "Something Happening Here..." Nov. 10, 2005 Includes Letters to the Editor of the Albuquerque Journal reacting to the piece, "Mark Rudd is Still a Communist."
Report from Israel/Palestine: Family trip, July, 2005
Photo Gallery of East Jerusalem and West Bank
Wall at Abu Dis near Jerusalem with painted ladder
Thinking About the Weather Underground Documentary
How a Movie Changed My Life (article written for Heartland Journal, Chicago, Summer, 2005)
History
"The Death of SDS", article written for The Student Underground
Bertha
| "How Could You Do This to
Me?" asks Mark Rudd's
Mom
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 [Photos thanks to Robert Wiener of New Jersey Jewish News] |
Interviews:
Satya Magazine, Mar. 2004, Interview by Anne Sullivan: On Violence and Non-violence
Sina Rahmani: Anti-Imperialism and its Discontents, published in Radical Historical Review.
A few links to do with strategy and organizing:
George Lakey on Pacifism and Non-violence: "Challenging Ward Churchill's 'Pacifism as Pathology.'" (A great polemic on the strategy of non-violent revolution).
Seven Theses On The Anti-war Movement And Student Resistance by Asad Haider, (March, 2005) (The current situation as a "crisis in education." Great for students).
David Solnit on a People's Power strategy for the Anti-war Movement (A broad view on what we should be doing, now that elections and protests in the streets have failed).
Sister Dianna Ortiz on torture (a critique of US occupation policy from somebody who has been there).
The Student Underground (an excellent radical newspaper from Boston University)
Curious old pictures:
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| Thanks to Carol Brune from Lawrence, Kansas, for original photo from Fall, 1968 |
Mugshot from "Days of Rage" bust, Chicago, Oct. 9, 1969 |
Thanks to Mary Garcia and Paul Rudd for much needed help in getting this website up and in teaching me how to do it. I really appreciate it.
