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Subject: Re: Participative Democracy
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Date: Thu, 3-May-84 14:56:25 EDT
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Re: SDS

The bombing referred to in a previous article was not at Kent State
(that was where Governor Rhodes of Ohio sent in the National Guard, resulting
in the deaths of four students ("four dead in Ohio").

It was, in fact, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  The building was
the Army Math Research Center, now moved and renamed as simply the
Math Research Center.  A graduate student was killed in the explosion.
SDS was very active here at Wisconsin, where their theoretical journal,
*Radical America* was published.  However, the bombing was not an organized
effort by SDS; there were many splits in the organization over tactics in
fighting the US war drive.

An excellent documentary was done here during those years, called
*The War at Home*, which describes the events over a period of years here
in Madison.  I'll never forget a close friend of mine's descriptions of
National Guardsmen on every corner with riot helmets, and her stories of
seeing students dragged out of the library for questioning by the police.

-- 
Jeff Myers
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