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=== Wald, Klonsky & Dohrn ===
=== Wald, Klonsky & Dohrn ===
[[File:Sdsandprogreessivesfobama.JPG|thumb|300px|left|Cut out from the SDS leaderfship chart. The names of Bernardine Dohrn, Mike Klonsky, Mark Rudd, Jeff Jones, Carl Davidson, Bill Ayers and Todd Gitlin are readibly visible. Rudd, Davidson and Gitlin are founders of [[Progressives for Obama]]. Ayers and Dohrn conducted one of the first fundraisers for Obama. Jeff Jones currently works for Obama Green Czar, [[Van Jones]]. Klonsky split with the Ayers/Dohrn faction claiming he, and not they, was the official spokesman for Maoist Revolution in the United States. Nearly 40 years later, Klonsky refused to sign on with the Ayers/Dohrn faction when it founded Progressives for Obama, although three other Klonsky family members did join.]]
Members of the [[CPUSA]], DCA, PLP, [[SWP]] and the SWP youth group Young Student Alliance (YSA) attended the convention. Karen Wald also attended and was working at the SDS national office as of this time. Wald was also a member of the editorial group of ''The Movement'', and previously associated with the YSA. A year earlier, Wald had traveled to Cuba. [[Bernardine Dohrn]] was elected Interorganizational Secretary, and stated that she considered herself a [[revolution]]ary [[communist]]. [[Mike Klonsky]], elected SDS National Secretary, also publically identified himself as a revolutionary communist. Klonsky's father was the former Organizational Secretary of the Eastern Pennsylvania-Delaware District of the CPUSA. His mother was also a former CPUSA member.
Members of the [[CPUSA]], DCA, PLP, [[SWP]] and the SWP youth group Young Student Alliance (YSA) attended the convention. Karen Wald also attended and was working at the SDS national office as of this time. Wald was also a member of the editorial group of ''The Movement'', and previously associated with the YSA. A year earlier, Wald had traveled to Cuba. [[Bernardine Dohrn]] was elected Interorganizational Secretary, and stated that she considered herself a [[revolution]]ary [[communist]]. [[Mike Klonsky]], elected SDS National Secretary, also publically identified himself as a revolutionary communist. Klonsky's father was the former Organizational Secretary of the Eastern Pennsylvania-Delaware District of the CPUSA. His mother was also a former CPUSA member.
At the convention, a workshop on sabotage and explosives was held. Earlier in the year, a pamphlet bearing the inscription "An Argument for Sabotage as the Next Logical Step Toward Obstruction and Disruption of the U.S. War Machine" was mailed from Toronto, Canada to over 300 antiwar groups throughout the U.S. The document urged the use of incendiary devices and included detailed instructions and diagrams.
At the convention, a workshop on sabotage and explosives was held. Earlier in the year, a pamphlet bearing the inscription "An Argument for Sabotage as the Next Logical Step Toward Obstruction and Disruption of the U.S. War Machine" was mailed from Toronto, Canada to over 300 antiwar groups throughout the U.S. The document urged the use of incendiary devices and included detailed instructions and diagrams.
The illegal and clandestine nature of such violent activity was emphasized. Also, it was during this convention that Naomi Jaffe, later to become a Weatherman, claimed to have shot down an American fighter plane with an anti-aircraft gun and to have assisted in the capture of
The illegal and clandestine nature of such violent activity was emphasized. Also, it was during this convention that Naomi Jaffe, later to become a Weatherman, claimed to have shot down an American fighter plane with an anti-aircraft gun and to have assisted in the capture of an American pilot during her earlier trip to Hanoi.
an American pilot during her earlier trip to Hanoi.
=== 1968 riots at the Democratic National Convention ===
=== 1968 riots at the Democratic National Convention ===