Reluctant Memoir, Part 2
Against The Current vol. 135

http://www.solidarity-us.org//node/1613
Date Written:  2008-07-01
Publisher:  Against The Current
Year Published:  2008
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX13424

I think it was in 1963 that I first became aware of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). My older sister Patty had married a very nice guy named Earl Brecher, with whom she went to Liberia as one of the first Peace Corps volunteers, in a program, sending idealistic college graduates to “help” downtrodden areas in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, launched by the Kennedy administration.

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• Activism/Radicalism
• Communism
• Communist Movement & Parties
• History
• History of Political Thought
• History/Twentieth Century
• Left, The
• Left Communism
• Left Communist Groups & Websites
• Left History
• Political Parties
• Radical Political Theory
• Radical Socialist Groups & Websites
• Radicalism
• Revolution/Study of
• Revolutionary Moments
• Socialism
• Socialist Revolution
• Socialist Studies
• United States of America
• U.S. Politics