MOVEMENT FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY POST-GRADUATE GUERRILLA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300550048-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 17, 2004
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: May 3, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

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Students for a Democratic Society ? of the slickest organizations ever to s 4:
(SDS), spelled it out in a recent issue cone down the radical pike. It views L w ;~ 4-r
of the Guardian. 'Thousands of New its future "domain for change" as the New York City, it appeared doubtful
Left activists leave the campus every ."whole world," and to take on the NewhY York lit a could surbl e. Q ! year. Some have dropped out, a few world, it has devised an intricate or- whether s of ueens co had, s ive. Member Queens NIDS i have been expelled, but most have : ganizational structure consisting of five
simply graduated. All of them confront different kinds of groups: geographical, 'tilt previous three months arguing
j the same problem: how to create a rele- service, "special project," occupational. among themselves whether a revolu-
vant off-campus movement." and "affinity" groups. tion would conic within a stable so-
'4. ' ciety by a small group of the elite or
For the New Left ideologues, whose The NI DS groups in operation at pros- whether it would come in an unstable,
''avowed goal is disruption and ultimate ent and their chief organizers arc: i, society from the proletariat. No reso-
revolution, this is a serious problem. Teachers for a Democratic Society lution of this conflict was in sight.
No sooner does a student become. (Ted Gold and Adrienne Yurick) The only service group in operation
rad as- - ? Urban Underground (Jackie Leavitt at present is the Day Care Project
uates, loses s e by contact SDS with thahisn radical grade
uates loses which prnvidcs day care facilities for
sociates, and is "co-opted" by the many and Paul Becker) . movement people with children. Part
"materialist" advantages American so- ? Crazy Horse MDS (Richard Epstein) of the motivation for starting this project
cicty has to offer a young person with ? Queens MDS (Phil Nicholson) is to keep as much money as possible
a college degree. circulating within the movement rather
So-after school, what? Obviously, Nlcta Information Applications and than obtaining day care from the
form a "graduate" -.SDS organization Computer MDS (Robert Shapiro) ;Establishment.
which can keep young radicals in a Courts Project (Brian Glick) The "special project" groups are
ezx revolutionary milieu. And this is pia
groups sub-groupsmembership within
cisely what is happening. Day Care Project (Nina Hutchinson temporary
and Rachel Frothier) ;MDS They are designed to attack
of graduateor- The names the new entfor a ? Caseworkers for a Democratic So- i particular institutions and, according to
ganiz crat is ciety"emnt for a ; cicty (Ted Kaptchuk' and Joni, Carl Davidson, writing in the Guardian,
Democratic Society (MDS). Ac-
Rabinowitz) "After the projects arc completed, the cording to an MDS pamphlet, groups then dissolve until new targets
i Theitial Conspiracy MDS is "the New School (Chris Robinson and gare selected." Special project groups
in organization of the ' off- Naomi Jaffcc) currently operating are the Con Ed
campus New Left." . NYU (Hal Benenson) Project (Con-Edison is a public utility
As an off-campus organization, MDS ? Con Edison Project (Marge Piercy) which supplies electricity and gas to
is a direct outgrowth of Students for a Radio Free People (Mike Kapezi) New .York City) and the Courts Proj-
Democratic Society. According to Carl nets, which is designed to attack the
Davidson, a resolution calling for "post ? Publishing MDS (Isabel Feldman) , courts and corporate law firms.
student organizing projects" under the Still intile planning ^ stages are Science,- .,vanguard affinity group" is
name "Movement for a Democratic;?and Technology MDS and Agricultural CrazyDSHorsc MDS. Little is known
ational Workers tor a Democratic Society. The . 'about this group except that it is re-
. Society" was passed at the 1966 national'
convention of SDS. However, little was organizers are, respectively, John' ? ort about to have been formed by a group
done for over a,year. Ehrenreich and Ted Kaptchuk. There of former University of Chicago
is talk of a Psychology MDS. Involved students living in New York City. It
to be York by the d
The maj : rity of the organizational'; in these discussions are Peter Candcll ' ? is alen ce living,
work on g N1 DS an was not completed until and Dr. Tom Harper of the Medical 6,lack of militancyat recent anti-war
the spring and summer of 196 968. A,i Committee for Human Rights.
demonstrations. It tries to raise the
foopen rmal for buss ccntcnt that MDS was,' The chief organizer of MDS is Bob level of militancy by engaging in "arm-
6r b es was made on Sept.. y linked, disciplined marching and the
288, , 1996S, in n the Guardian: "MDS- Gottlieb,co-author of the Port Auth orit O
Movement for a Democratic Societ Statement and a long-time SDS member chanting of so-called obscene slogans."
Society until he graduated to MDS.
is the best new idea of the year. Con- only g p the most clur:tltlc of the
Apparently
ccivcd as an 'organization of the adult The strictly geographical or com-
New Left,' MDS is obviously a logical munity-oriented group in operation is MDS groups are the occupational-
rc al point
outgrowth of SDS, attempting to create ; I the tQ Queens `(N`1i1iV York) `S~J1 This (, i. ut that l lhcyltters. A vcs reason
-is a permanent group to work for radical group w theylntt and camnu-ttl.?ation t
change in America. One of their first who have Ituthtwll In eonuuan with each for orgai i
nctl of work. Two of these
u.r hey live could form, their place o
vltir>< {s tea l~ ~fpt~F.Ise`IX-RDP88-0.1315R0003(?/it5t~g61U groups in the Movement
Boy Floyd Mcmoaf Lecture Scries g Iaviabla i
ght at the anizational meeting for a Democratic Society deserve cspc.
it; this is for real) Thursday night 1 At an MDS 'org tltdes interested
New School." tt,~t.t in January or this year in cially close attention by