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Todd Gitlin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power
At the last minute, Seth: Anything you wish to say about hard evidence of agents provocateurs at work in the ’60s?
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Todd Gitlin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power
I hear you.
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Todd Gitlin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power
There’s no contradiction between being disappointed and being activist, energetic, and hopeful. None.
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Todd Gitlin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power
Just read the piece. Howard offers not a shred of response to Seth’s specific allegations. Not a shred.
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Todd Gitlin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power
I think Obama is vulnerable now to pressure from the left.
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Todd Gitlin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power
The push-back is never enough but is everywhere. Progressives have a big oppty now. I wrote about economic aspects here: http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/a-charter-for-the-99-percent/ This is also good time for civil libertarians to push on Guantanamo.
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Todd Gitlin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power
RevBev: This famous crack is one of the canards of the ’60s. Jack Weinberg of FSM meant “We don’t trust Communists.” This was his reply to a reporter’s question about whether Communists were big manipulators of the FSM.
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Todd Gitlin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power
Please say more about “trying to disrupt.”
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Todd Gitlin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power
Please say more about “private right-wing intelligence operatives.”
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Todd Gitlin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power
I read *Subversives* to suggest that the FBI *helped* Reagan during his 1966 gubernatorial campaign. Do you agree?
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Todd Gitlin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power
Have you come across evidence of California surveillance of student activists by other government agencies, in particular, military intelligence?
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Todd Gitlin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power
When you speak of “monitoring,” do you have any sense of when this scrutiny began at other campuses, and when it ended? Can you put us onto any published reports on such scrutiny?
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Todd Gitlin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power
I second this question from Bev.
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Todd Gitlin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power
This was serious money. In 1965-67 my monthly rent (in Chicago) was $85.
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Todd Gitlin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power
Did lower-level volunteer informers ask to be paid? What was the going rate? Did the FBI ever approach potential informers and enlist them?
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Todd Gitlin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power
Seth, one implication of this story is that the FBI was interested in volunteers from august positions in institutions. Do you know where their other volunteers came from? How thorough, or not, were they vetted? Were they paid?
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Todd Gitlin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power
OK, so we’re off and running. Now I think it would be good if you’d reply to dakine01′s question about Alex Sheriffs and why he leaped at the chance to inform.
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Todd Gitlin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power
Hi there, Seth. Could you start by telling your readers why you were interested in (some would say obsessed with) FBI files about Berkeley and Reagan in the 60s?
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Todd Gitlin wrote a new diary post: Polls and Occupy
In the course of our vivid exchanges in the Book Salon yesterday, I mentioned recent polls on public opinion toward Occupy in polls over the summer. Below are the specifics. But first, let me address the objection that these assessments don’t accord with a reader’s sense of how the population is feeling. In the early [...] -
Todd Gitlin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Todd Gitlin, Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street
Good question. I say what I think I should do, & urge people who agree to do the same, but try hard not to preach to Occupy people that they should be other than who they are. I deeply appreciate what they’ve done, & I think the book makes that clear. The question is now what Occupy should do. The question is what should *we* do.
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