Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 14:18:43 -0500 (EST) From: Lesley Julia Wood <ljw31@columbia.edu> Subject: Talk: The 1960s and progressive activism today An event at Columbia. The Columbia University Department of Sociology and the Graduate History Association present: A Panel Discussion and Open Forum *******The '60s Talk to the '00s--And the '00s Talk Back******* Tuesday, November 14 at 7 pm Sulzberger Tower, 17th Floor (just inside the Barnard College gates and to the left) Can progressive activists today learn from the movements of the 1960s? Is it time for a "new" new left? Join us for an open discussion. Panelists include: King Downing, Activist attorney, R2K legal defense team Helen Garvy, Assistant National Secretary, Students for a Democratic Society and Producer/Director of Rebels with a Cause* Richard Healey, SDS, Preamble Center, Grassroots Policy Project L.A. Kauffman, Activist and author, Direct Action: Radicalism in Our Time Isabell Moore, Student activist, Direct Action Network Robert Pardun, SDS, Associate Producer of Rebels with a Cause and author, Prairie Radical: A Journey Through the Sixties Jeremy Varon, Historian, author of Shadowboxing the Apocalypse: New Left Armed Struggle in the United States and West Germany Contact Francesca Polletta at fap8@columbia.edu or John McMillian at jcm67@columbia.edu for more information And see: REBELS WITH A CAUSE -"the story of the hopes, rebellions, and repression of the 1960s-told by those who lived it: members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the largest student organization of the '60s," produced and directed by Helen Garvy, at The Screening Room, 54 Varick St, November 10-16.
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