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...virtually all the groups is the same: having accepted at last the dictum that it cannot win the hearts and minds of people through violence, the movement hopes to radicalize the population through organization and political education. In Berkeley, for example, radicals are putting up a slate for mayor and city councilmen in the spring elections. Members of this "April Coalition" have already succeeded in placing on the ballot a measure that would decentralize police powers and give them over to neighborhoods within the community. Another, even more old-fashioned radical activity is organizing workers. Coming to terms with this...
...really change things in Wilcox County. There were elections this year, but no blacks won. The only result that might be called a victory was that a white sheriff who has murdered blacks was replaced with a white sheriff who has only beaten blacks. There was a complete slate of black candidates for the school board. But most of them withdrew from the race before the election-for reasons known but unknown. Of those who stayed in the face, none were elected...
...Swept Slate...
...believe that their movement offers a serious alternative to the megamachine. It is too machinelike itself, with youth running in herds that differ little from those that cram corporation offices. Theirs is not a new consciousness but a very ancient and dubious one: a primordial desire to wipe the slate clean and make a fresh start. But a new start, says Mumford, requires people who have digested the lessons of the past, not rejected them as irrelevant...
...insurgent candidates are challenging the stockholders' slate in next week's elections for the Harvard Cooperative Society's Board of Directors...