JUNE 4, 1972 : (SDS RANT) "The game of the rich has caught up to Pig America. The Vietnamese have kicked ass out of U.S. occupational troops. More and more G.I.’s will no longer listen to Pig Nixon’s orders and are turning their guns around on the real enemy. The Provisional Revolutionary Government in Vietnam (Viet Cong) has led the Vietnamese people to complete victory." –Roxboro School SDS- Cleveland Heights – June 4, 1972 From “Mutiny Does Not Happen Lightly: The Literature of the American Resistance to the Vietnam War”
1972 : (CHICAGO, IL : OBAMA'S FUTURE MENTOR REV WRIGHT BECOMES PASTOR OF TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST --See BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY) The Reverend Doctor Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., Trinity's pastor since 1972, flies a red, black, and green flag near his altar and often preaches in a dashiki. He has spent decades writing about the African roots of Christianity, partly as a way to convince young blacks tempted by Islam that Christianity is not "a white man's religion." ------- The Agitator - Barack Obama's unlikely political education The New Republic ^ | March 19, 2007 | Ryan Lizza http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2076843/posts Posted on Sunday, September 07, 2008 3:56:01 PM by FreedomLives2008
1974 : (BY THIS TIME WEATHER UNDERGROUND HAS TAKEN RESPONSIBILITY FOR 12 BOMBINGS) Between 1970 and 1974 the Weathermen took responsibility for 12 bombings, Mr. Ayers writes, and also helped spring Timothy Leary (sentenced on marijuana charges) from jail. —— “No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives ,” Dinitia Smith. New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Sep 11, 2001. pg. E.1