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Ads by Google Related Topics Port Huron, Michigan Huron County, Ohio Port Huron Statement Port Royal Port Arthur Port au Prince Port Huron, Michigan Port Said Port Stanley Port Huron Statement      [No title] The Port Huron Statement (PHS) (Miller, pages 329-374) created by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a document which helped set the mood for the decade. In June 1962, an SDS national convention was held in a UAW camp located in the backwoods of Port Huron, Michigan. In a section titled "Politics Without Publics," the Statement explains: The American voter is buffeted from all directions by pseudo-problems, by the structurally initiated sense that nothing political is subject to human mastery. http://www.ais.org/~jrh/acn/text/acn11-1.articles/acn11-1.a15.txt   (4668 words)      ProgressiveResourceCatalog OpenGovernment / Article5 The Port Huron Statement claimed to be articulating an "agenda for a Generation." Some of that agenda has been fulfilled: The cold war is no more, voting rights for blacks and youth have been won, and much has changed for the better in the content of university curriculums. Many of those who came to Port Huron have been on that quest ever since. The Port Huron Statement made just a passing reference condemning aid to the South Vietnamese dictatorship. http://www.progressiveresourcecatalog.org/index.php/OpenGovernment/Article5   (3017 words)      [No title] In fact, the Port Huron Statement makes a point of cutting down these beliefs, claiming that the New Left will not support the idea of human beings as things or objects. Then the document takes it one step further in saying that the incompetence attributed to humans is, in fact, caused by the society in which they live. WORKS CITED "The Port Huron Statement." The New Left: A Documentary History. http://www.textfiles.com/reports/ACE/freedoms.txt   (1122 words)      Salon.com News Forty years after Port Huron In the same year, a much more famous (and much more disingenuous) New Left document appeared, called "The Port Huron Statement." This document, which did not 'fess up to its socialist agenda at all, was the founding manifesto of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). This was exactly how Marx had described the socialist agenda, although the Port Huron statement refrained from mentioning that fact. In its final spasms of left-wing lunacy, SDS leaders like Tom Hayden and Bernadine Dohrn called for actual war against "Amerikkka" and created the first political terrorist cult, with SDS president Bernadine Dohrn and SDS vice president Bill Ayers as its leaders. http://www.salon.com/news/col/horo/2002/07/29/port_huron?sid=1104407   (614 words)      Amazon.com: Books: "Democracy Is in the Streets": From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago It tells their story and that of their organization, its guiding document "The Port Huron Statement," and its call for "participatory democracy"an ambiguous phrase which nonetheless signified the spirit of SDS and provided a mechanism to recruit, convince, and convert. This idea, much touted by SDS members for most of its history, was never adequately defined in the document. Tracing the birth, development, and demise of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), it focuses on key individualsTom Hayden, Dick Flacks, Sharon Jeffrey, et al. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674197259?v=glance   (1355 words)      Shock Wave - Part 2: Up Against the Ivy Wall! The period from the late fifties up until the assassination of JFK was characterized by the development of conflict which remained well within the channels of accepted realms of political protest. The statement included a list of reasons why SDS thought the university was an extremely important cite of political contestation: Port Huron Statement - founding statement of the SDS, June 16, 1962 http://trc.ucdavis.edu/erickson/mru/us.htm   (2719 words)      [No title] The Port Huron manifesto was a veiled restatement of the socialist cause. of 1962, Three of the four drafters of the Port Huron statement were scions of the Communist left. The statement adopted the position of "anti-anti-Communism," refusing to support the West in its Cold War with the totalitarian states. http://discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6723   (794 words)      Monthly Review: "Democracy Is in the Streets": From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago. - book reviews Instead of modifying the experience ofthe Old Left, understanding and adapting it, the New Left insisted on rejection in response to perceived rejection by leaders of the Old Left. LID threatened to drum the new organization out ofthe self-"democratic Left" and cut off its funds and support if SDS did not follow its anticommunist lead. FindArticles > News and Society > Monthly Review > Sept, 1989 > Article http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1132/is_n4_v41/ai_7923807   (1316 words)      Detroit Almanac: SDS and the Port Huron Statement In June 1962, SDS leaders gathered at a union camp on Lake Huron to finalize what came to be known as the Port Huron Statement. Detroit Almanac: SDS and the Port Huron Statement All content © copyright 2004 Detroit Free Press and may not be republished without permission. http://www.freep.com/news/locway/tri6_20001006.htm   (240 words)      Left2Right: The Port Huron Statement If you look back to the founding document of the 60's left, which was the Port Huron statement. So divided, it cannot hope to mount effective opposition to the authoritarian and plutocratic trends that have set in and are being furthered under the cover of policies to spread democracy and freedom to the Islamic Middle East and to create an ownership society. The reason The Port Huron Statement remains an important document is that it is a model political manifesto of the American left. http://left2right.typepad.com/main/2005/01/the_port_huron_.html   (822 words)      Download Solution - Homework Help from BrainMass The Port Huron Statement is often remembered as the most influential founding document of the New Left. Should the Port Huron Statement be viewed as a radical document? What were the historical origins of the movement that came to be known as the " New Left?" http://www.brainmass.com/sol_download.php?post_id=10064   (130 words)      SDS: Students for Democratic Society It was the founders’ fervent, if somewhat naïve, belief that a nonviolent youth movement could transform U.S. society into a model political system in which the people, rather than just the social elite, would control social policy. The document, adopted in 1962 by the sixty or so founding members of SDS, criticized the American political system for failing to achieve international peace or to effectively address a myriad of social ills, including racism, materialism, militarism, poverty, and exploitation. His political career is one of the few lasting effects of the movement SDS initiate to make the United States a more just and more humane society. http://ma.essortment.com/sdsstudentsfo_rmsx.htm   (1551 words)      Left-Wing Ideologies, Lingo and History Praxis: Some would claim that the radical democratic tradition began with the American and French Revolutions. Praxis: Really a phenomenon of the 1950s-early 1980s, though many Communist Parties outside of Communist countries moved a little bit in this direction. Some would cite the early Students for a Democratic Society's Port Huron document as the mid-Cold War re-birth. http://www.changesurfer.com/Acad/Lingo.html   (3036 words)      Rebels with a Cause Port Huron Statement was the first official document of SDS — and the most widely distributed document of the American Left in the Sixties. Port Huron Statement represented the collective thought of the founding convention of SDS, held in Port Huron, Michigan, June 1962. We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit. http://www.sdsrebels.com/port-huron.htm   (1729 words)      Station Information - Port Huron Statement Full text of the Port Huron Statement may be found in the Sixties Project Primary Documents Archive. A manifesto of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), written in 1962 primarily by Tom Hayden. Full text of the Port Huron Statement archived at Michigan State University. http://www.stationinformation.com/encyclopedia/p/po/port_huron_statement.html   (54 words)      A Change Is Gonna Come Sometimes it seemed that no one, not even the people who wrote it, remembered the founding document of SDS, the Port Huron Statement. It envisions politics as a way of "Bringing people out of isola­tion and into community," helping them find "meaning in personal life." Addressing a political context in which Southern "Dixiecrats" and conservative Republicans controlled Washington, the state­ment endorses what in retrospect seems a fairly conventional, if un­usually hopeful, liberal agenda. Earlier, during SNCC's 1962 voter regis­tration campaign in McComb, Mississippi, SDS leader Tom Hayden had met Bob Moses, whose political philosophy exerted a major im­pact on the Port Huron deliberations later that year. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR2/SAUL_3.html   (7620 words)      FrontPage magazine.com :: Port Huron and the War On Terror by David Horowitz This was an organization that began by agitating for "participatory democracy," became the largest organization of the left and ended up, a bare seven years later, calling for war against "Amerikkka" and creating the Weather Underground — the first terrorist political cult. In the same year, a much more famous document appeared, called "The Port Huron Statement," which was the founding manifesto of the Students for A Democratic Society. The key battle at Port Huron (not even addressed in the Hayden-Flacks nostalgia piece) was whether to include actual members of the Communist Party in the coalition that would become SDS. http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=2031   (1423 words)      Untitled Document As the students of the SDS became more comfortable with their organization they were disturbed by new events in the world. The Port Huron Statement, as it came to be called, "took society to task for its moral impoverishment and oppression" and "called for greater individual rights and a participatory democracy that would diminish the power of the corporate elite and government bureaucrats and place more power in local communities" (Hamilton 292). Guidelines and themes were set up for the organization to follow and for their goals to be in line with. http://eagle3.american.edu/~jr3778a/1945page3.htm   (1647 words)      On Point : Rebels with a Cause - 8/7/2002 The Port Huron Statement claimed to be articulating an agenda for a generation. The Port Huron Statement was the first official document of the SDA and the most widely distributed document of the American Left in the 1960s. Tom Hayden, social activist, principal drafter of the Port Huron Satement, former California State Senator, now fellow at the Nation Institute. http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2002/08/20020807_b_main.asp   (245 words)      The Sixties . Politics . Newsmakers . Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) PBS This view of political ownership is a central theme in the rise of the New Left. A handful of activist groups form the core of the New Left, including the SDS. The group adopts an official political manifesto, the Port Huron Statement, based largely on a draft by Tom Hayden (later of the Chicago Seven). http://www.pbs.org/opb/thesixties/topics/politics/newsmakers_1.html   (298 words)      Speaking of Faith® from American Public Media The Power of Fundamentalism In 1962, the SDS issued the Port Huron Statement, a document that expressed dissatisfaction about the bureaucratic intrusion in student's personal lives and regret that the mainstream liberals were not doing enough to further the causes of civil rights movement. In reaction to the liberal Protestantism that was occurring in the late 1800s, a Bible Conference in Niagra issued a statement of belief, of which part came to be known as the five points of fundamentalism: The Bible is without flaw in its original form because it is the inspired Word of God. http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/2004/08/19_fundamentalism   (2922 words)      [No title] But knowing what I know now about the war, I have to say that I probably would have been one of the ones who got married very quickly or did something to prevent me from having to go. I would support it today due to the fact that it is someone’s opinion and deep feelings of what the society should be like, and I happen to agree with some things written. I think the Port Huron Statement was extremely persuasive and the arguments and statements were very valid. http://www.uakron.edu/history/wilson/251SP03/HomeworkStudentSample1.doc   (405 words)      SDS In 1962 the SDS was primarily a civil rights movement that addressed American issues such as poverty, racism, the arms race, and the narrow limits of participation and social change that were possible in electoral politics. This philosophy is outlined in detail in the Port Huron Statement. The convention was led by the president of the organization, Robert Allen Haber, who, along with Tom Hayden, drafted the Port Huron Statement, a document that set forth the ideals and intentions of the SDS. http://www.trincoll.edu/classes/hist300/sds.htm   (353 words)      New College of California - News UC Berkeley) who joined the class -- the deeply held progressive values of the Port Huron Statement (claiming as did to be the "agenda for a generation") to a growing emergence of aware and activist students in this new millennium. These were the words that opened the Port Huron Statement, founding document of SDS, in 1962 - Students for a Democratic Society - one of the largest ever (at one time 100,000 strong) student organizations in the country. The Port Huron Statement ends "if we appear to seek the unattainable, then let it be known that we do so to avoid the unimaginable." Embracing this intention now for decades, New College and all of its educational programs reject cynicism and embrace the transformative power of utopian vision, commitment and courage. http://www.newcollege.edu/news/august_19_05.cfm   (526 words)      GlobalCircle portal  P-Q Port of Chicago Blast (West Coast, US) - Notes from an August 12, 1992 interview with Peter Vogel on his research into the possibility that the July 17, 1944 Port of Chicago explosion could have been atomic. "Port Huron Statement" -- Founding document of Students for a Democratic Society Right Wing Populism / Major Overview, agrarian and political polulism http://www.globalcircle.net/00p-q.htm   (1372 words)      Port Huron Statement - Stormfront White Nationalist Community After reading it I notice that it points out alot of problems that I find evident in society, yet the solution they have is utter sh*t. To be honest with you, this is the first time I've ever heard of this "Port Huron Statement," but after a brief search, I found a site which has it. Port Huron Statement - Stormfront White Nationalist Community http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=18492   (465 words)      [cssn] 5/30-31: Call for Port Huron II, Kent State University, Ohio Conference details also will be on the web site. A "new" port huron statement now would have to > bridge many generations and represent better the diversity > of the world and engage better some of the unresolved > controversies of change the world politics. > > from: alan haber > > hello > > notes introducing a discussion, > > Many people have suggested "we" need, for now, what > "the port huron statement" did in the 1960's, a manifesto of > our times by young people of all ages, ready and engaged in > action. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cssn/cssn-list/2002/02/00125.html   (737 words)      Short Paper #2 These documents offer important visions of America as a democratic society in the years from 1950 to 1964. Write a 3-5 page essay comparing a "free society" as imagined in NSC-68, with Nixon's understanding of a free and democratic society in the Kitchen Debate, Johnson's vision of a "Great Society," and the description of a "democratic society" in the Port Huron Statement. NSC-68, the Nixon-Khrushchev Kitchen Debate, President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society Speech, and the Port Huron Statement http://www.hist.umn.edu/~bywelke/hist3822shortpaper2.html   (238 words)      40 yr. Old Port Huron Statement While Great Society didn't have a happy ending, it had more of a possibility, then the Port Huron statement would ever have. It's content proved to be impractical, the SDS would implode. Both Great Society and Port Huron died and burned in the summer of 1968, with the hopes of the nation. http://allhewanted.org/fodder/0207porthuronideas.shtml   (388 words)      The Port Huron Statement (1962) (The Sixties Series) (60s Series) Remember what Lenin said : American Communists are "Useful Idiots" and we will sell them the rope with which we will hang them. This is the bible of the SDS ; the spoiled rich kids that rejected their WWII parents culture and morality because the parents were smart enough to temper their communist beliefs with sense and reason. The Port Huron Statement (1962) (The Sixties Series) (60s Series) Review: This book is where the Red Diaper Doper babies got their start. http://www.textkit.com/0_0882861344.html   (111 words)      The Port Huron Statement Expect tighty whities for this one folks..all I'm at liberty to say is, Matts been mowing his yard in his luchador's wrestling mask to get ready for this thing Hats off to EYES TO SPACE and THE RACHEL NEVADAS for bringing the rock to Raleigh!That turned out to be a great billing and we look forward to seeing/playing with both of these bands again. Posted by port huron statement at 11:35 AM http://www.d8i.com/~jct/phs/news   (907 words)      VDARE.com: 09/25/03 - Guilty but free as a bird Some much-needed perspective on Hayden's history has recently been provided by the far superior Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties by Peter Collier and David Horowitz, two former New Leftists whose subsequent political odyssey has been rather more complete. The SDS manifesto was called the 'Port Huron Statement' after the lake resort, loaned by labour union sympathizers, where it was adopted. Hayden went straight from the meeting to the White House, where he briefed court historian Arthur Schlesinger, who promised to tell President Kennedy. http://www.vdare.com/pb/guilty.htm   (1014 words)      Untitled Document Theoretic chaos has replaced the idealistic thinking of old--and, unable to reconstitute theoretic order, men have condemned idealism itself. We oppose, too, the doctrine of human incompetence because it rests essentially on the modern fact that men have been "competently" manipulated into incompetence--we see little reason why men cannot meet with increasing the skill the complexities and responsibilities of their situation, if society is organized not for minority, but for majority, participation in decision-making. Excerpt from the Port Huron Statement (full text available at The Sixties Project) http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/HIUS316/mbase/layout/sampleunit/porthuron.html   (357 words)      Book Review: The Lost Gospel of the Earth: A Call for Renewing Nature, Spirit, and Politics Hayden has been a political activist since the early 1960s. He was a peace advocate during the Vietnam War and a leader in progressive political movements during the 1970s. He was one of the authors of the Port Huron Statement, a defining manifesto of the "youth revolt" of the 1960s. http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/content/v14.1/devall2.html   (1483 words)      Analysis of the Port Huron Statement Free Essay - Find A Paper.com You must cite our web site as your source! The Port Huron Statement is a public declaration by a group of members of the new organization Students for a Democratic Society. This statement eventually became a manifesto for the new left. http://www.findapaper.com/viewpaper/2873.html   (235 words)      Making of Modern America Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin, "The Failure and Success of the New Radicalism", in Fraser and Gerstle, eds, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order Black Panther Party: Platform and Program (1966) [N.B. The Students for a Democratic Society's Port Huron Statement, 1962, courtesy of the University of Virginia "Sixties Project" President's Johnson's Address to the Nation, 1968, from the LBJ Library http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucraasm/Making/14.htm   (313 words)      Port Huron Statement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Port Huron Statement was written as a response to Young Americans for Freedom's founding statement of principles, known as the Sharon Statement. The Port Huron Statement is the manifesto of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), written primarily by Tom Hayden and completed on June 15, 1962. This page was last modified 02:04, 8 September 2005. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Huron_Statement   (119 words)      Digital History This manifesto, one of the pivotal political documents of the 1960s, became known as the Port Huron Statement. The goal set forward in the Port Huron Statement was the creation of a radically democratic political movement in the United States that rejected hierarchy and bureaucracy. For four days and nights the members of an obscure student group known as Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) talked passionately about such topics as civil rights, foreign policy, and the quality of American life. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=376   (862 words)      Mrs. Ruland's US History Class Project -- Timeline of the Vietnam Conflict The SDS, Students for a Democratic Society, formed to have their opinion heard by the public. Port Huron Statement was written by Tom Hayden for the SDS to help voice their opinions. Anti-Vietnam War Movement now has a large number of protestors against the war. http://home.comcast.net/~mruland/stugallery/USHist/vietnam/1954-1967.htm   (166 words)      Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society, 1962 Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society, 1962 The best she could do was to evade or to present the administration party line. We tried to draw from her some statement on these great principles, consent of the govemed,jury of one's peers, due process. http://www3.niu.edu/~td0raf1/history468/feb0701.htm   (1869 words)      Student Manifestos Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society Williamstown Statement by students of the Century Institute. http://www.mjgwaltney.org/APUSGovt/student_manifestos.htm   (17 words)      Toward a Living Democracy The Port Huron Statement, produced by Students for a Democratic Society, gave voice to the alienation of young people from an increasingly bureaucratic, militaristic, corporate nation. The Port Huron Statement inspired a generation of activists to take to the streets, risk their lives for the civil rights movement, and to oppose the Vietnam War. These were people who took democracy seriously, making it a part of their everyday lives and challenging politicians whose self-serving actions stained it with cynicism. http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views02/0706-03.htm   (714 words)      Port Huron Statement - Students for a Democratic Society :: Campus Activism Port Huron Statement - Students for a Democratic Society The 1962 vision statement by Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Port Huron Statement - Students for a Democratic Society :: Campus Activism http://www.campusactivism.org/displayresource-5.htm   (57 words)      Students for a Democratic Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This manifesto criticized the political system of the United States for failing to achieve international peace and failing to address social ills in contemporary society. Its political manifesto, known as the Port Huron Statement, was adopted at the organization's first convention in 1962, based on an earlier draft by staff member Tom Hayden. Hayden said, "While the draft Port Huron Statement included a strong denunciation of the Soviet Union, it wasn't enough for LID leaders like Michael Harrington. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society   (844 words)      Port Huron Statement I agree with his suggestions that students should become even more involved with the politics of today - it's imperative unless we are willing to allow others to dictate our future. Shaffer, could you give me some more insight as to what the repercussions of this "statement" were? http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/don.shaffer/history102ef1999sp/_cldisc/000000e3.htm   (135 words)      The Port Huron Statement: The Founding Manifesto of Students for a Democratic Society (Sixty's Series) : Book The Port Huron Statement: The Founding Manifesto of Students for a Democratic Society (Sixty's Series) The Port Huron Statement: The Founding Manifesto of Students for a Democratic Society (Sixty's Series) : Book http://www.pagenation.com/an/0882861735.html   (32 words)      Features ACTION SPEAKS The Cold War statements of 1962 and the [Cuban] missile crisis seem eerily familiar to the Iraq quagmire, with no obvious way out. Thomas Frank, editor of the political satire magazine the Baffler, and Brown University historian Paul Buhle will discuss the Port Huron Statement, the 1962 declaration of the newly formed leftist group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Many young people feel dissatisfied, but don’t know what to do about it. http://www.providencephoenix.com/features/tji/documents/03270695.asp   (637 words)      Journal Questions for November 30 It is considered the organizing manifesto for the Students for a Democratic Society. Please read the statement carefully and reflect on how some of the ideas may be pertinent to your own lives. Explain at least three of the things that can be done, as described in the statement. http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/Gary.Kroll/courses/his102/huron&johnson.htm   (287 words)      SDS - Port Huron Statement (1962) Archives - Activism - Hippyland This is the first official document of the SDS, Students for A Democratic Society issued in Port Huron, Michigan, June 1962. SDS - Port Huron Statement (1962) Archives - Activism - Hippyland The Archives are available for students and researchers to study this fascinating period in history. http://www.hippy.com/php/article-129.html   (1992 words)      Conversation with Lowell Bergman, p. 2 of 6 And somebody actually got me a copy of the original Port Huron statement from the SDS [Students for a Democratic Society], which is a statement about contradictions. It made a big impression on me, because you could see that in everything from sex to politics, there were always contradictory things going on, and you were looking for a way to express it. And these contradictions hearken back to what you were saying about the Port Huron Statement, because it was a document that put down on paper these kinds of contradictions. http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Bergman/bergman-con2.html   (895 words)

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