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A New Dawn for the New LeftIntroduction

A New Dawn for the New Left: Introduction [On the morning of August ii, 1968, something brazen was happening in the Harlem basement of Liberation News Service (LNS)—a news outlet akin to the Associated Press of the New Left underground media. A small gang was systematically stripping the office of printing press and paper, files and ephemera, piling them all into cardboard boxes and onto dollies. Those who cleared the equipment from the basement that morning formed an atypical band of thieves. Among the crew were LNS cofounders, Marshall Bloom and Raymond Mungo, who had christened the organization at a chaotic meeting of the nation’s alternative press on the eve of the October 1967 Pentagon March. Although LNS was less than a year old, an ideological fissure had developed between the founders and a set of upstart newcomers, inspiring the daring heist that unfolded in the shadows of Columbia University, a Movement hotbed just four months removed from massive student protests. After loading the paraphernalia onto a borrowed truck in broad daylight, the party began a three-hour drive to Montague Farm, a rural commune that they had secretly purchased in western Massachusetts.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2012
ISBN
978-1-349-44789-3
Pages
1 –9
DOI
10.1057/9781137280831_1
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Abstract

[On the morning of August ii, 1968, something brazen was happening in the Harlem basement of Liberation News Service (LNS)—a news outlet akin to the Associated Press of the New Left underground media. A small gang was systematically stripping the office of printing press and paper, files and ephemera, piling them all into cardboard boxes and onto dollies. Those who cleared the equipment from the basement that morning formed an atypical band of thieves. Among the crew were LNS cofounders, Marshall Bloom and Raymond Mungo, who had christened the organization at a chaotic meeting of the nation’s alternative press on the eve of the October 1967 Pentagon March. Although LNS was less than a year old, an ideological fissure had developed between the founders and a set of upstart newcomers, inspiring the daring heist that unfolded in the shadows of Columbia University, a Movement hotbed just four months removed from massive student protests. After loading the paraphernalia onto a borrowed truck in broad daylight, the party began a three-hour drive to Montague Farm, a rural commune that they had secretly purchased in western Massachusetts.]

Published: Nov 3, 2015

Keywords: Underground Press; Participatory Democracy; Underground Medium; Expansive Movement; American Imperialism

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