VLVL PR3's Exterior Bureau & BAAD

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Wed Feb 11 14:06:44 CST 2004


But the brothers from BAAD seemed content just to play Trash The
Xanthocroid with what, given this crowd, were some pretty easy shots.
(VL.230.33-35)

When SDS turned away from Port Huron, Democratic Society, Labor, it
turned to the Panthers and picked up the Gun. Long standing  fraternal
ties were broken and the end of SDS was written on the wall. 



When the SDS national council met, March 27-30 1969, at Austin, Texas,
the national body had selected the BPP as its closest fraternal ally in
the Black community.  A resolution supported the BPP's program for
"liberation" of the Black Colony within the United States and pledged to
provide legal defense and educational efforts in the Party's behalf. 
The SDS council explained that it considered the BPP in fact to be the
vanguard (leader) of their common struggle against American capitalism
and "imperialism."  However, since the resolution alluded to the BPP's
"colonial" struggle against the "mother country," the Progressive Worker
Party-Worker Student Alliance ( PLP-WSA ) faction objected on the
grounds that American Blacks were not a colony but members of an
economic group-the working class. In nominating the Panthers for a
leadership role in the revolutionary movement with the USA, SDS observed
that the Panthers were also proponents of a revolution in the country as
a whole. Another resolution pledged SDS support to struggles for the
right to self-determination by the entire "third world" liberation
movement with the USA, identified as including the Black, Latino, Puerto
Rican , Chinese, and American Indian communities. At a meeting in March,
in Austin Texas, SDS severed its fraternal ties with the Southern
Student Organizing Committee on the grounds that SSOC had accepted
liberal foundation money and had supported liberal causes. SDS also
accused SSOC of being "counter revolutionary." SSOC's original statement
of goals and first proposals of organization were written by an SDS
drafter (presumably Hayden) of the Port Huron Statement, dissolved
itself in June, 1969. It had been associated with SDS since its founding
in 1964.



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