This photo appeared at the top of an article in
The Nation April 16,
2020: "
An
Open Letter to the New New Left From the Old New Left by "Former leaders
of the Students for a Democratic Society" (including some prominent figures
in the Columbia uprising) urging us all to get behind Joe Biden, which
prompted (as of 29 May 2020) 113 reader comments including a couple from me
that I'd like to think are worth reading, and was followed on April 27 by a
second article, "
Responses
to an 'Open Letter to the New New Left'". I guess I'm Old New Left too,
with a bit of Old Left, but I wouldn't have signed the letter; our choices
are sickening. Anyway about the photo... It's Columbia in 1968 and I'm in
it, slightly northwest of center, light shirt, behind the girl with the
white headband. I don't remember the occasion but it's probably before the
building occupations because I'm not in a building. For some reason people
are facing in different directions.