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New York State Branch of the SDS

Notes From the Green Piano. The Magazine of the Niagra [sic] Region S.D.S. No. 2 (n.d., circa 1969).

The second of four total issues published of the short-lived magazine issued by the Niagara region of the SDS, or Students for a Democratic Society, 18 pp., illustrated throughout from photographs and drawings. Quarto (10 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches). Illustrated pink and green side-stapled wrappers with a front cover illustration of Che Guevara. Light toning and minor marginal foxing to covers, very light edgewear and chipping, overall very good. Ithaca, New York: SDS, n.d. (circa 1969).

The second of four issues published of the obscure magazine distributed by the Niagara region of the SDS. The SDS was a national student activist organization which the founders saw as an exercise in "participatory democracy". The organization grew throughout the 1960s to include over 300 campus chapters and 30,000 supporters according to its last convention in 1969.

The content of this issue is expectedly political, and includes a statement by the Regional SDS Council, an essay on the student strikes at San Francisco State, an essay on the "new working class", an excerpt from the Utica Free Academy underground paper 'Scorch', notes on regional meetings and conferences, an essay titled "The Iceberg Strategy: Universities and the Military-Industrial Complex", and dates of upcoming protests and events.

Scarce; as of November 2025, OCLC locates four holdings in North American institutional libraries, most of a single issue.

Book ID: 53583

Price: $450.00