Mark Rudd

Mark Rudd was chairman of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society in April, 1968. Subsequently he became a "National Traveler" for SDS and was elected the last National Secretary of SDS in June, 1969. Because of his delusions about revolution in this country he and his clique, "Weatherman," closed down SDS, the largest radical student organization, at the height of the war, to his eternal shame. He was one of the founders of the ill-conceived and ill-fated Weather Underground in 1970. A federal fugitive until 1977, he suffered no consequences due to the government's illegalities. Since then he has been a full-time organizer and community college instructor in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The author of the memoir "Underground, My Life in SDS and Weatherman." He is also a student of organizing, especially nonviolent strategy.