Preparing the IV

[Robin Landseadel]

Six degrees of the Dude.

                                DUDE
                    I was, uh, one of the authors of the
                    Port Huron Statement.--The original
                    Port Huron Statement.

                                MAUDE
                    Uh-huh.

                                DUDE
                    Not the compromised second draft.
                    And then I, uh. . . Ever hear of the
                    Seattle Seven?

                                MAUDE
                    Mmnun.

http://www.bednark.com/big.lebowski.script.html

	The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was conceived in
	1960 as an organization intended to establish a strong New
	Left movement. The New Left was a term used to describe a
	generation of Americans, mostly college and university
	students, motivated by social injustices, the war in Vietnam and
	the Civil Rights Movement in the South. In 1962 members of the
	association met in Port Huron, Michigan and drafted "The Port
	Huron Statement"-- a document outlining the political tenets of
	group. In it, SDS criticized the materialistic, discriminating
	American society and described how universities should be the
	center of the action to establish a "participatory democracy".

http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/collections/exhibits/arch/Whoswho/SDS.html

	First organized in 1960 as the rejuvenated student arm of the
	venerable League for Industrial Democracy, Students for a 	
	Democratic Society (SDS) burst on the national scene in 1962
	with its Port Huron Statement. Comparable to Karl Marx's
	Communist Manifesto, the statement laid out the organization's
	analysis of contemporary America and explained how through
	“participatory democracy” SDS would reform capitalism. The
	most important and influential of the New Left groups on college
	campuses in the 1960s, with as many as 400 chapters by 1968,
	SDS led the first mass Vietnam Antiwar Movement
	demonstration on 17 April 1965 in Washington, D.C. After that
	point, despite the fact that the organization strongly opposed
	the war, U.S. imperialism, and the Selective Service System, its
	leaders chose not to play a major role in other mass
	demonstrations. They and their members were deeply involved
	in many other antiwar activities, however, including Stop the
	Draft Week in October 1967 and the riots at the Democratic
	National Convention in Chicago in 1968. SDS self‐destructed in
	1969 as a result of sectarian infighting and after the nihilistic
	and violent Weathermen faction gave the organization—and
	the antiwar movement—a bad name.

	[See also Draft Resistance and Evasion; Peace and Antiwar
	Movements; Vietnam War: Domestic Course.]

	Bibliography

	• Kirkpatrick Sale, SDS: Ten Years Toward a Revolution, 1973

http://www.answers.com/topic/students-for-a-democratic-society

You can find the entire text here:

http://www.antiauthoritarian.net/sds_wuo/

Scroll down for "Kirk" Sale. Note man with bag over head on the way  
down:

http://www.richardandmimi.com/cornell.html

	SDS: Ten Years Toward a Revolution, Kirkpatrick Sale
	(1973) "the first writer ever given access to the SDS
	archives," tells the story of the rise and fall of the Students for a
	Democratic Society.

	Pynchon writes: SDS is the first great history of the American
	prerevolution. . . . It will stand not only on its extraordinary merits
	because it is a source of clarity, energy and sanity for anyone
	trying to survive the Nixonian reaction, but also as one book
	that was there when we needed it the most.

http://www.themodernword.com/Pynchon/pynchon_essays_blurbs.html

	Mistral Island Manuscript
	From the University of Texas:

	Recent acquisition: "The manuscript for an unproduced musical
	called Minstral Island by Pynchon and Kirkpatrick Sale. Early
	notes, outlines, and drafts for the 1958 collaboration between
	Pynchon and Sale which explores the year 1998 when IBM
	dominates the world and artists (including musicians,
	sailmakers, and prostitutes) are pariahs who have yet to be
	assigned roles in the new world order. Pynchon collaborated
	on the manuscript with Sale in 1958, prior to the publication of
	Pynchon’s first novel, V. Kirkpatrick Sale has written extensively
	on the political, economic, sociological, and environmental
	impacts of technology, even going so far as to reconstitute the
	term Luddite to describe a contemporary movement that is
	skeptical of uncontrolled technological advance. Pynchon
	manuscripts are notoriously rare, which makes this unpublished
	gem particularly exceptional."

http://www.themodernword.com/Pynchon/pynchon_news.html

And now I will sprinkle you all with fairy dust:

	Yippie was conceived by Abbie Hoffman, Paul Krassner and
	Jerry Rubin in the aftermath of an acid trip on New Years Day,
	1968. Hoffman, who was active in the East Village hippie
	community, saw Yippie! as a way of making protest "fun" and
	thereby attracting otherwise transcendental hippie elements
	into the anti-war movement.

http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/collections/exhibits/arch/Whoswho/SDS.html

	Seaman Bodine is an unexpected bonus. Going in to dinner
	becomes a priestly procession, full of secret gestures and
	understandings. It is a very elaborate meal, according to the
	menu, full of releves, poissons, entremets. "What's this
	'Uberraschungbraten' here?" Seaman Bodine asks righthand
	dinner companion Constance Flamp, loose-khakied
	newshound and tough talkin' sweetheart of ev'ry GI from Iwo to
	Saint-La.

	"Why, just what it sez, Boats," replies "Commando Connie,"
	"that's German for 'surprise roast.' "

	"I'm hep," sez Bodine.
	GR, P 728

"Anti-disciplinary protest"  By Julie Stephens:

	Incoherence as a sign for radical:

http://tinyurl.com/lsuhct

	Frequently reviled by other New Left activist groupings for the
	countercultural spirit and the carnival ethic which infused their
	activism, the Yippies were renowned for a surreal style of
	political dissent whose principle weapon was the public (and
	publicity-driven) mockery of institutional authority of any kind.
	The Yippies' departure from an earlier generation of 1960s
	radicalism which had been seen through the Civil Rights Act of
	1964, and the first mass demonstration against the Vietnam
	War the following year, is one way into the story of what
	happened to the American New Left. Yippie activism captured
	perfectly the chaotic final years of the "movement," as the New
	Left subsided into a factionalism and confusion over political
	objectives which replaced the relatively focused thinking of the
	first generation of 1960s radicals.

http://www.bookrags.com/research/yippies-sjpc-05/

	"Oh I see," sez Commando Connie, "it has to be alliterative.
	How about ... urn ... discharge dumplings?"

	"We're doing the soup course, babe," sez cool Seaman Bodine,
	"so let me just suggest a canker consomme, or perhaps a barf
	bouillon."

	"Vomit vichysoisse," sez Connie. "You got it."

	"Cyst salad," Roger continues, "with little cheery-red squares of
	abortion aspic, tossed in a subtle dandruff dressing."

	There is a sound of well-bred gagging, and a regional sales
	manager for ICI leaves hurriedly, spewing a long crescent of
	lumpy beige vomit that splatters across the parquetry. Napkins
	are being raised to faces all down the table. Silverware is being
	laid down, silver ringing the fields of white, a puzzling
	indecision here again, the same as at Clive Mossmoon's office
	....

	On we go, through fart fondue (skillfully placed bubbles of anal
	gas rising slowly through a rich cheese viscosity, yummm), boil
	blintzes, Vegetables Venereal in slobber sauce ....

	A kazoo stops playing. "Wart waffles!" Gustav screams.

	"Puke pancakes, with sweat syrup," adds Andre Omnopon, as
	Gustav resumes playing, the Outer Voices meantime having
	broken off in confusion.

	"And spread with pinworm preserves," murmurs the cellist, who
	is not above a bit of fun.

	"Hemorrhoid hash," Connie banging her spoon in delight,
	"bowel burgers!"
	GR, P 730

Meanwhile, back on the "non-fictional" plane:

	On the next day there were two SDSs and a number of
	oddments in between. Many of the Old Left-style sects, such as
	the Labor Committees, International Socialist Clubs, and the
	Spartaeists, stayed with PL-SDS, where they could debate
	traditional sectarian Marxism without interference from the
	traditional SDSers and their unorthodox and "anarchistic"
	tendencies. Other pre-formed groups Yippie collectives, the
	Panthers, and the Radical Union, for example stayed with the
	SDS regulars. And some, like a group of anarchists, left the
	whole thing, issued an appeal for followers ("Tired of people
	throwing red books at each other? Tired of the old rhetoric?
	Come breathe a breath of fresh rhetoric!") and went over to the
	last remaining outpost of official anarchism, the headquarters of
	the Industrial Workers of the World on Chicago's north side.

http://www.antiauthoritarian.net/sds_wuo/sds_documents/sds_kirkpatrick_sale.pdf