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You Say You Want a Revolution: SDS, PL, and Adventures in Building A Worker-Student Alliance (John Levin and Earl Silbar, editors) Thursday, June 20, 2019 (6:00 PM – 7:45 PM) Jamaica Plain Branch Library 30 South Street Jamaica Plain MA 02130 Join us to hear several local authors who contributed to the recently published book-"You Say You Want a Revolution". Listen to people who participated in the student movement in the 1960s and 1970s. The book includes pieces set in and around Boston, such as the Harvard Student Strike in 1969. https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/search/fq=branch_location_id:(28)/event/5ce4106f6070164500f09312 SPEAKERS will include: Ellen S. Israel, a key organizer, and participant, in student travel to Cuba in 1963 and 1964, in defiance of the U.S. government's travel ban (and defeating the ban in the Supreme Court). Her memoir includes photos of Fidel playing ping pong with the students ("he won each time!") Frank Kashner, union activist at General Electric John Pennington, Harvard activist and National Secretary of SDS, following the split with Weatherman and RYM II factions Mary Summers, Harvard activist, currently teaching academically based community service courses on the Politics of Food and Healthy Schools at the University of Pennsylvania Lou Proyect's review of You Say You Want a Revolution is at https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/22/rebuilding-a-revolutionary-left-in-the-usa/ _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
