HISTORY 7B Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Port Huron Statement, Mario Savio, Jack Weinberg
Countercultures
● I. New Left
○ A. Port Huron Statement (SDS)
■ Self creativity
■ Over violence, unreason,
■ Reform to campus life -- referred to it as ‘sandbox’ government’
○ B. Free Speech
■ About a narrow issue: right of students to do political organizing on
campus and hand out leaflets on Bancroft and Telegraph
● Protest started when campus banned civil right demonstrations
● October 1, 1964: Jack Weinberg was arrested by police and put in
a police car -- students surrounded the car and took turns giving
speeches on the roof of it
● Mario Savio: outraged that he can’t continue to work for the civil
right struggle
○ December 2, 1964: you can’t reduce us to products that
your training to sell to corporations
■ About a broad issue:
○ C. Anti-war
■ Main issue for SDS
■ Draft law was changed to end automatic student deferment, you can’t get
deferred to the draft because you’re a student
● Hundreds of chapters were found on campuses
○ E.g to kick military off campus, Deli Chemical (that make
explosives being used in Vietnam)
■ Stop the Draft Week: (Berkeley-Oakland 1967)
● March ended in street fighting with police
● Hundreds of people arrested and hurt
● This went on in other campuses around the country
■ SDS split in two factions
● One: response to violence is to meet it with more violence
○ Known as the ‘weathermen’
■ You don’t have to be a weatherman to know what
way the wind blows
● Two:
■ Campus “disturbances”
● Violence escalated in 1970, after Nixon announced invasion of
Cambodia -- expansion of war
● Student protests erupted -- there was a killing at a protest
● Jackson State: 1970
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Document Summary
Reform to campus life -- referred to it as sandbox" government". About a narrow issue: right of students to do political organizing on campus and hand out leaflets on bancroft and telegraph. Protest started when campus banned civil right demonstrations. October 1, 1964: jack weinberg was arrested by police and put in a police car -- students surrounded the car and took turns giving speeches on the roof of it. Mario savio: outraged that he can"t continue to work for the civil right struggle. December 2, 1964: you can"t reduce us to products that your training to sell to corporations. Draft law was changed to end automatic student deferment, you can"t get deferred to the draft because you"re a student. Hundreds of chapters were found on campuses. E. g to kick military off campus, deli chemical (that make. Stop the draft week: (berkeley-oakland 1967) explosives being used in vietnam) March ended in street fighting with police.
