Students breathe new life into a remnant of the 60s: SDS rises at APSU

[struggle4progress]

By Christine Anne Piesyk | September 21, 2007

... A dozen students at Austin Peay State University have resurrected Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). They gathered Friday from 10:30-noon at the Student Center plaza for an anti-war rally. They were a small group with a loud voice, large banners, small signs and handouts opposing the War in Iraq and the assault on civil liberties ...

They were a vocal minority, gathering additional voices of support as the rally on this conservative campus unfurled. The group utilized the momentum of national Iraq Moratorium movement as the catalyst for what they hope will be a series of peaceful protests against the War in Iraq and the flawed policies that support it. Iraq Moratorium is a movement that has designated every third Friday as a day of protest against the Iraq war and Bush Administration policies. The group was outspoken about supporting the troops by working to “bring them home.”

The demonstration started peaceably with megaphone chantings of “end the war,” but the peaceful tone changed quickly. Two bystanders, both claiming to be Iraq vets, made it clear they aspired to be the center of attention with an escalating and threatening heckling of the SDS students ...

http://www.clarksvilleonline.com/2007/09/21/students-breathe-new-life-into-a-remnant-of-the-60s-sds-rises-at-apsu/

[provis99]

1. Be great if they could start up again at Berkeley

That once great California state university has become the most notorious GOP ghoul hangout in America. An SDS on campus would be a great middle finger to the College Republicans who currently run the place.

[Buzz Clik]

2. Go Peay!

[southerncrone]

3. Fort Campbell is just about 2 miles down the road from APSU.

Many of the soldiers & their spouses attend this college. Small university--@9,000 students, mostly commuters.