{"id":488,"date":"2009-06-30T10:15:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T18:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/?p=488"},"modified":"2009-06-30T10:17:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T18:17:12","slug":"in-berkeley-the-public-library-showcases-revolutionary-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"In Berkeley. . .the public library showcases revolutionary newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berkeley is so left-wing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/wp-content\/images2009\/IMG_7943.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n&#8230;that the Berkeley Public Library, as part of a rotating museum exhibit in its front window, recently chose to proudly show off its extensive collection of late-&#8217;60s and early-&#8217;70s revolutionary underground newspapers. They have (as seen here) the full run of <em>Young Socialist<\/em>. The display area faces the street along the library&#8217;s front wall. Out of the innumerable written works in the library&#8217;s huge archives, this is what they choose to promote.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/wp-content\/images2009\/IMG_7946.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThis issue of the SDS&#8217;s <em>New Left Notes<\/em> was published for the infamous Students for a Democratic Society 1969 convention in Chicago, at which the Weatherman faction (Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd, etc.) broke away from the rest of the SDS, declaring, &#8220;The goal is the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/wp-content\/images2009\/IMG_7947.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The Berkeley Tribe<\/em> newspaper had a special Black Panthers edition, sporting Malcolm X&#8217;s famous quote, &#8220;By any means necessary&#8221; &#8212; i.e. the ends justify the means, and that it is therefore OK to use violence to bring about the revolution.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/wp-content\/images2009\/IMG_7949.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nAnother issue of <em>The Berkeley Tribe<\/em> had an essay by Black Panther Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver about the Weatherman group (later known as The Weather Underground).<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/wp-content\/images2009\/IMG_7951.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nAnd fond nostalgia over Berkeley&#8217;s anti-war riots prompted inclusion of this issue of <em>Young Socialist<\/em> with the headline, &#8220;The Campuses Explode.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berkeley is so left-wing&#8230; &#8230;that the Berkeley Public Library, as part of a rotating museum exhibit in its front window, recently chose to proudly show off its extensive collection of late-&#8217;60s and early-&#8217;70s revolutionary underground newspapers. They have (as seen here) the full run of Young Socialist. The display area faces the street along the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}