Contents of New Left Notes first 12 issues
(January - April 1966)
Jim Russell, editor
Unsigned articles were the
responsibility of the editor.
January 21, 1966
(Vol. 1 No 1)
Paul Booth, National Program
Outlined at Dec. National Council for Coming Months
Carol
Stevens, SDS Re-examined at Dec. Conference
Tom
Hayden, Report from the North
Carol
Oglesby, Liberalism and the Corporate State
Chapter
News: Chicago, Oklahoma
Introduction
Letters:
MB, Milton Cohen
January 28, 1966
(Vol. 1 No 2)
Chapter News: Fast at Bryn Mawr
(Margaret Levi), Antioch (Jane Rosenthal), Syracuse, New Jersey (Helen
Garvy), Chicago Region (Greg Kaslo), NY Region (Sarah Murphy), SF Region
(Ken McEldowney)
Paul
Booth, Nat’l Secretary’s Report
Eric
Chester, History of the Ann Arbor Sit-in
San
Francisco Regional Newsletter, December Conference Impressions
National
Office Financial Report
Radical
Education Project
Letters:
Cesar Chavez, Helen Garvy, Arthur I. Waskow
February 4, 1966
(Vol. 1 No 3)
Paul Booth, Nat’l Secretary’s
Report: The movement, the public and the bombings
Judy
Kissinger, National Administrative Committee Minutes
Mike
Davis, Southern Calif. Chapter reports
Todd
Gitlin, Notes on the Pathology of the National Council
Guy
Loftman, Another December Conference View
Reaction
to bombings: Lake Forest and the State, Conviction at Ann Arbor, South
readies for protest
Welfare
Victory
Regional
Conferences: Michigan, New York
New
Chapters
Letters:
Paul Booth, On peace politics; anon. On mental hospitals; Steve Weissman,
Strategy; Sen. Ernest Gruening, On conscripts; Don McKelvey, At-large
chapters; Sidney Lens, Participatory Democracy.
February 11, 1966
(Vol. 1 No 4)
New Jersey correspondent,
Engelfinger Demonstration Set for 17th
Paul
Booth, Berkeley Moving Again
Paul
Booth, National Secretary’s Report
Rich
Berkowitz, Food Strike Successful (Univ. of Illinois, Chicago Circle)
JOIN
Community Newsletter, JOIN Office Gutted by Fire
Joan and
Jay Mandle, Penn Free University Started
Todd
Gitlin, Notes on the Pathology of the National Council, part 2
Christopher Z. Hobson and Paul Booth, The Economics of Apartheid
Tom
Condit, Recent Publications on South Africa
National
Office Financial Report
National
Council Ballot
Current
Literature List
Anti-War
VISTAs Organizing
Sly
Tactics at Harvard
Trustees
Ban SDS speakers (Chapel Hill, NC)
Ball
Picketed at Northwestern
Police
Stop Viet Meeting (Milwaukee)
February 18, 1966
(Vol. 1 No 5)
Jeff Shero, SSOC Conference:
Report on Southern Activity
Jeff
Jones, Michigan Regional Conference
SDS
Regional Office, M2M Dissolves
Carolyn
Craven, San Francisco Regional Report
News
release, VISTA Anti-war March Planned
Margaret
Levi, Bryn Mawr: Evaluation of a Fast
Mike
Klare, High School Organizing: New NYC Group Growing
Victoria
J. Gray, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Air Base Invaded by Poor
People
Paul
Booth, National Secretary’s Report
Jim
Russell, National Administrative Committee Minutes
Letters:
Al Haber, Reply to Gitlin; Steve Max, Lens didleywack; Stephen Kaufman, New
SDS document; Allan Greene, Leaders in SDS; Mother Mary Alice Gallin
Meet Your
Local CIA Recruiter
2
suspended at Gainesville
South
protest small
February 25, 1966
(Vol. 1 No 6)
Paul Booth, Engelfinger Met by
350
Paul
Booth, National Secretary’s Report
Late
Regional and Chapter News: San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles, Albuquerque
(from TomPuckett), Austin, Stanford, JOIN Chicago
March 4, 1966 (Vol.
1 No 7)
Thomas Good, San Jose
demonstration
News
release, Fast for peace at Wesleyan
Carol
Glassman, Newark Community Union Project proposal for community center
Lucien
Cross, Free speech at the U. of Florida
Jim
Masters, U. of Kansas
James
Wallihan, 250 picket Taylor at Indiana
Jeff
Shero, Travel report: Tulsa, SSOC, SNCC
Paul
Booth, National Secretary’s Report
National
Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam, March 25-26 International
Days of Protest
March 11, 1966
(Vol. 1 No 8)
Ken McEldowney, Dubois Club
Persecution Repulses SDS
Ken
Kantro and Darrel Hubbs, Maine Students Support Strikers
National
Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam, Days of Protest
National
Office of SDS Press Releases: DuBois Club Persecution, Freedom Draft;
Jailing of Soviet writers Sinyavsky and Daniel
Newark
Community Union Project, Prospectus for Poor People’s Radio Station
Paul
Booth, National Secretary’s Report
Letters:
Peter and Stevie Freedman, Reply to Haber; Todd Gitlin, Reply to Haber; SDS
San Diego Steering Committee, Soviet writers; Steve Max; Jim Russell, Reply
to Steve Max
Announcements: John McDermott, A Profile of Vietnamese History; San
Francisco Mime Troupe show, A Minstrel Show or Civil Rights in a Cracker
Barrel, seeking engagements
March 18, 1966
(Vol. 1 No 9)
Say No to the War Mar. 25-26
Freedom
Draft Ready to Go
Lee Webb,
National Council Issues Outlined
5500
Members! 151 Chapters!
Chapter
news: Ann Arbor, Washington, Boston, San Francisco, Delano, Chapel Hill,
Chicago, San Diego
Norm
Potter, Grape Strike Report Number 1
Lee Webb,
National Administrative Committee Minutes
Letters:
Melva Fager, Northwestern SDS chapter, concern about Gus Hall invitation to
SDS; Jonathan Steinberg, reponse to Helen Garvy
Announcement of National Workshop on Chapter Programming andSkills
March 25, 1966
(Vol. 1 No 10)
Grape Strikers Begin
Peregrinacion
Cesar E.
Chavez, Peregrinacion, Penitencia, Revolucion
John
Maher, SANE Voters’ Pledge Conservative, Inadequate
Regional
and Chapter News: Detroit, Lincoln, Middletown, CT, Flushing, Lincoln,
Chicago, Boston,.
Photo
from San Francisco Mime Troupe, Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel
Al Haber,
Radical Education Project—Draft for Discussion and Comment
Paul
Booth, National Secretary’s Report
Lee Webb,
National Administrative Committee Minutes
Letters:
Marc Rosenberg
Announcement of National Council Meeting at Antioch College
April 1, 1966 (Vol.
1 No 11)
100,000 Turn Out for Days of
Protest: Berkeley, fasts, International, East Lansing, Flushing, Houston,
Lafayette
Paul
Booth, National Secretary’s Report: Hayden and Lynd to Outline Summer
Project
Staff,
Call for Financial Support
Carl
Oglesby, World Revolution and American Containment, part 1
Paul
Booth, National Administrative Committee Minutes
April 8, 1966 (Vol.
1 No 12)
Reports: Schenley Agrees to Talk
(Grape Strike); New York; Lorman, Miss; Milwaukee; Lincoln; Carbondale,
Lewisburg, PA; Washington
Paul
Booth, National Secretary’s Report, Resolutions for the National Council
Harry
Boyte and Sara Evans, Union Organizing at Duke
Carl
Oglesby, World Revolution and American Containment, part 2
Judy
Kissinger, National Administrative Committee Minutes
Letters:
Steve Kindred, RonTabor, Miles Mogulescu, Bernard Tuchman, Stan Teplick,
Electoral Politics; David Strauss, Imprisoned Soviet Writers