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[[File:Sdsorgchart.JPG|thumb|475px|right|Organizational chart of the SDS prepared for Congressional Investigators by the FBI.]]

[[File:Sdsorgchart.JPG|thumb|475px|right|Organizational chart of the SDS prepared for Congressional Investigators by the FBI.]]

'''Students for a Democratic Society''' ('''SDS''') was founded by [[Aryeh Neier]] (Director of the socialist [[League for Industrial Democracy]])<ref>[http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2000w09/msg00138.htm The birth of the "New Left"?], email discussion March 2000.</ref>, [[Tom Hayden]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/13/sds_founder_veteran_activist_tom_hayden |title=SDS Founder, Veteran Activist Tom Hayden on Participatory Democracy from Port Huron to Occupy Wall Street |work=Democracy Now |date=April 13, 2012 }}</ref>, and [[Alan Haber]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.michigandaily.com/content/sds-founder-hopes-new-revival-campus |title=SDS founder hopes for new revival on campus |work=Michigan Daily |date=February 11, 2004 }}</ref> in 1960. Its principles were elaborated by Hayden in the Port Huron Statement of 1962, which adopted the position of "anti-anti-Communism," refusing to support the West in the [[Cold War]].<ref> [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6723 SDS, Discoverthenetworks.org]</ref> What began as a movement to involve the largest possible number of American students in the democratic processes had become by 1969, as a contemporaneous FBI memo summarizes, "an organization totally dedicated to the destruction of American society...In the span of seven years, the SDS had evolved into a hard line Marxist-Leninist-Maoist organization dedicated to the destruction of Western democratic traditions and ideals."<ref>Foreign Influence - Weather Underground Organization (WUO). FBI Chicago Field Office Report, August 20, 1976. Section I. Ideology D. [http://foia.fbi.gov/weather/weath1b.pdf ''Influence of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tse-tung Thought''], Page 56 in original (p. 19 pdf).</ref>

'''Students for a Democratic Society''' ('''SDS''') was an organization of socialist student activists and was one of the main early groups representing the [[New Left]]. Its principles were elaborated by [[Tom Hayden]] in the [[Port Huron Statement]] of 1962, which adopted the position of "anti-anti-Communism," refusing to support the West in the [[Cold War]].<ref> [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6723 SDS, Discoverthenetworks.org]</ref> What began as a movement to involve the largest possible number of American students in the democratic processes had become by 1969, as a contemporaneous FBI memo summarizes, "an organization totally dedicated to the destruction of American society...In the span of seven years, the SDS had evolved into a hard line Marxist-Leninist-Maoist organization dedicated to the destruction of Western democratic traditions and ideals."<ref>Foreign Influence - Weather Underground Organization (WUO). FBI Chicago Field Office Report, August 20, 1976. Section I. Ideology D. [http://foia.fbi.gov/weather/weath1b.pdf ''Influence of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tse-tung Thought''], Page 56 in original (p. 19 pdf).</ref>

Several prominent SDS members organized [[Progressives for Obama]] in March of 2008. Among the organizers are [[Carl Davidson]], [[Mark Rudd]], and [[Todd Gitlin]]; while several Klonsky family members are represented, [[Mike Klonsky]] is conspicuously absent from the signers. <ref>[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080407/hayden_et_al/print Progressives for Obama], By Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher Jr., Danny Glover & Barbara Ehrenreich, ''The Nation'', March 24, 2008.</ref><ref>Foreign Influence - Weather Underground Organization (WUO). FBI Chicago Field Office Report, August 20, 1976. Section I. Ideology D. ''Influence of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tse-tung Thought'', Page 58 in original (p. 21 pdf).</ref>

Several prominent SDS members organized [[Progressives for Obama]] in March of 2008. Among the organizers are [[Carl Davidson]], [[Mark Rudd]], and [[Todd Gitlin]]; while several Klonsky family members are represented, [[Mike Klonsky]] is conspicuously absent from the signers. <ref>[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080407/hayden_et_al/print Progressives for Obama], By Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher Jr., Danny Glover & Barbara Ehrenreich, ''The Nation'', March 24, 2008.</ref><ref>Foreign Influence - Weather Underground Organization (WUO). FBI Chicago Field Office Report, August 20, 1976. Section I. Ideology D. ''Influence of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tse-tung Thought'', Page 58 in original (p. 21 pdf).</ref>

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*Many key SDS members were "red-diaper babies," children of parents who were [[Communist Party]] members or Communist activists in the 1930s. In 1966, when President [[Lyndon Johnson]] abolished student draft deferments, some 300 new SDS chapters were formed. Among the organization's activities were: disrupting ROTC classes, staging draft card burnings, and harassing campus recruiters for the [[CIA]] and for firms that conducted research tied in some way to national defense. SDS also occupied buildings at universities such as Columbia and destroyed draft records.  

*Many key SDS members were "red-diaper babies," children of parents who were [[Communist Party]] members or Communist activists in the 1930s. In 1966, when President [[Lyndon Johnson]] abolished student draft deferments, some 300 new SDS chapters were formed. Among the organization's activities were: disrupting ROTC classes, staging draft card burnings, and harassing campus recruiters for the [[CIA]] and for firms that conducted research tied in some way to national defense. SDS also occupied buildings at universities such as Columbia and destroyed draft records.  

*At the 1968 [[Democrat]]ic Convention in Chicago, SDS protesters, organized by Tom Hayden, created a riot in order to destroy the electoral chances of the pro-war [[liberal]] [[Hubert Humphrey]], and thereby set the stage for a confrontation with the [[Richard Nixon|Nixon Administration]] over the [[Vietnam War]]. Hayden and his cohorts -- including [[Jerry Rubin]], [[Abby Hoffman]] and [[Black Panther]] [[Bobby Seale]] -- were arrested and indicted for crossing state lines to incite a riot. They became known as [[Chicago Seven Trial|The Chicago Seven]]. In a celebrated trial (whose guilty verdict was subsequently overturned on a technicality), they were given token sentences.  

*At the 1968 [[Democrat]]ic Convention in Chicago, SDS protesters, organized by Tom Hayden, created a riot in order to destroy the electoral chances of the pro-war [[liberal]] [[Hubert Humphrey]], and thereby set the stage for a confrontation with the [[Richard Nixon|Nixon Administration]] over the [[Vietnam War]]. Hayden and his cohorts -- including [[Jerry Rubin]], [[Abby Hoffman]] and [[Black Panther]] [[Bobby Seale]] -- were arrested and indicted for crossing state lines to incite a riot. They became known as [[Chicago Seven Trial|The Chicago Seven]]. In a celebrated trial (whose guilty verdict was subsequently overturned on a technicality), they were given token sentences.  

*In 1969 SDS began imploding into factions. One of them, a group calling itself Weatherman, was elected to SDS leadership and proclaimed that the time had come to launch a race war on behalf of the Third World and against the United States. The new entity dissolved SDS and formed a terrorist cult in its place, which was given the name [[Weather Underground]]. [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6723]

*In 1969 SDS began imploding into factions. One of them, a group calling itself Weatherman, was elected to SDS leadership and proclaimed that the time had come to launch a race war on behalf of the Third World and against the United States. The new entity dissolved SDS and formed a terrorist cult in its place, which was given the name [[Weather Underground]]. [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6723]

==Factions==

==Factions==