VLVL UHURU

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> Of course it is.  Hasn't someone here already noted that it was the name of
> the black female officer in the original Star Trek series?

UHURU remained active. From a brief look in the Berkeley Library I read
that UHURH has been involved in violent confrontation with the law and
other groups, Korean Grocers, Jewish businessmen, for over 30 years. 

The Turn here is rather important if we want to understand the role of
Communism in America and why Pynchon has focused on its role. We should
do well to remember that the implosion of the student movement,
including SDS, that Pynchon describes in these chapters is connected, as
I outlined it previously, with three prior uprisings, all of them
involving both students and worker. Pynchon has, for narrative purposes
anyway ( notice that he maps it over the 20 year surfer-wave cycle),
sketched the classic 20 cycle of insurgency/repression in America. . 
It's funny that we talked only briefly about the student uprising in
Fariña's novel, __BDSL__  and P's Introduction to it, but we can, for
the sake of discussion of fictions, say that  the student movement is
born in 1959. It's genesis occurred in 1905 when the most important
early 20th century student movement in the USA took root on various
college campuses. In any event, SDS-NSA (plus ADA, YD, YPSL)  start out
attacking HUAC. Eventually, of course SDS will ally itself with the
violent and divisive organizations depicted in Pynchon's novel, accusing
it's infant mother (NSA) of being a front for the CIA. This,  even as it
is being accused of being "children of the fascist class" and "a front
for big business and global fascism" by the BPP and other violent
organizations.  Strange as it may seem to us post-CIA generations, it
was the regional and national meetings of NSA which first brought
together Northern White Radicals.  And, we should do well to remember
that the 1962 convention was held at and AFL_CIO camp at Port Huron,
Michigan. The Port Huron Statement was delivered by Hayden. It was
prepared by Hayden and Haber. It was so well recieved that some credit
it with sparking the white radical movement. Of course, at first, that
meant work, labor, civil rights, not blowing up aprtments in The Village
and Policing the Hood.