Tag: SDS
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We are people of this generation.
Students for a Democratic Society’s 1962 Port Huron Statement begins with these words: “We are people of this generation…” During a public messaging training that I recently led for a student group, I reflected back to the group my observation that members often referred to themselves as activists — in both internal conversations and external…
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Encapsulation
After posting utopianism and the would-be political group yesterday, I went back and reread an old article I’d published that discusses this phenomenon of social movement organizations that, in the course of especially intense situations or campaigns, become all-encompassing, integrative identities for core participants. The original article was the second part in a three-part series…
Jonathan Matthew Smucker 