SDS/WUO, Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground Organization

by David Gilbert

An insightful look at two important political organizations in the history of the American white Left, from a participant. It points out their contributions, while not glossing over their weaknesses. Gilbert was a member of the Columbia University chapter of SDS in New York and was a key participant in the large student strike and occupation of 1968. He joined the WUO when it was formed and continued as a member till its collapse in 1976. Includes WUO communiques and a SDS/WUO chronology.

40 pages, Paperback

First published March 17, 2002

About the author

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David Gilbert is an American radical leftist organizer and activist who is currently imprisoned at Auburn Correctional Facility. Gilbert was a founding member of Columbia University Students for a Democratic Society and member of the Weather Underground Organization. After about ten years underground, he was arrested in October 1981, along with members of the Black Liberation Army and other radicals including Kathy Boudin, his partner and mother of Chesa Boudin. The details of his arrest are included in the entry on Kathy Boudin in the section entitled "1981 Brinks Robbery." He and she both participated in that robbery and were sent to prison for their part in the resulting murders of Nyack police officers Waverly Brown and Edward O'Grady and Brinks guard Peter Paige. (In 2004 the US Post Office in Nyack was renamed in honor of the slain men.)