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Thirty years ago, Richard Flacks wrote Making History: The American Left and the American Mind. Flacks had been a leader of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a 1960s leftist activist organization that had folded almost 15 years earlier. He had helped to write SDS’s 1962 Port Huron manifesto, a document widely credited with inaugurating the New Left.
For voters who live in Mission Canyon and parts of Santa Barbara, the November 6 election is a chance to vote for important change on the Santa Barbara City College Board of Trustees. The challenger is Darcel Elliott, a UCSB grad and education major with 10 years’ experience working on local and regional policy matters. Darcel sees students as participants in the life of SBCC, not merely recipients of decisions from higher-ups.
Tom Hayden was a friend of ours. By “ours” I mean of me and my husband, Dick Flacks. He was also a friend of this community’s. I would like to take a page from MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, who ends his daily show by inviting his three final guests to “Tell me something I don’t know …” As the front-page obituary in the Los Angeles Times attests, Tom was a “famous person” — and not just because he married Jane Fonda.
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