Students Made the Difference at DC Protest

Saturday's massive peace rally and march brought folks from a wide range of backgrounds, ages, and ideologies together to send a message that our troops must be brought home. The warring flavors of Marxists came together (if only to hawk their newspapers on the same corner), and despite each of the half-dozen sects having different angles on how best to "destroy the bourgeois order," when it came time to march, and chant, and flip off the Capitol building, they did so hand in hand. I saw a kid with a DLC button (no kidding, I had no idea they made such things) carrying a large banner with an SDSer.

If that doesn't give you the warm fuzzies for a future non-sectarian (less sectarian?) left, I don't know what would.

At a rally where most of the speakers were little more than warmed-over leftovers from the last intractible guerrilla war we were caught in (with a wonderfully notable exception), it was nice to see the young people on the ground unafraid to carve their own notch in the first amendment.

Here's an article about the SDS-led Radical Youth Contingent that day, written by a participant. Of particular interest is how easily the steps of the Capitol building were taken, largely by a group of young libertarian socialists and SDSers (news article about it here, photos here.