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October 16, 1970, and October 26, 1970 SDS was founded during June, 1962, at ; Port Huron, Michigan, and in the 1960s . functioned as the leading New Left ¢ampus~ : _ based student organization in the United States, From an initial posture of * { "participatory democracy," SDS moved toa | radical-revolutionary position, with debate i centering on how best to create a revolutionary youth movement, Internal factiondlism produced @ split during the SDS National Convention FO in June, 1969, which resulted in the following \ three factions: Weatherman; Worker Student Alliance (WSA); and Revolutionary Youth Move~ ment (RYH). The Weatherman and RYM are no longer affiliated with SDS, The WSA continues to use the name SDS and maintains its national headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts, Weatherman, formerly a faction of SDS, con= trolled the SDS National Office from June, 1969, until its closing in February, 1970, Weatherman then entered an underground status and adopted a tactic’ of “strategic : sabotage," with police and military install~ i ations designated as primary targets, _ WSA, a faction of SDS, was expelled. from 8DS in June, 1969, by the then dominant Weatherman faction but continued to use ; the name SDS and opened an office in - Cambridge, Massachusetts. WSA aligned ideologically with the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) and, in February, 1971, moved . to Chicago, Illinois, whereit opened the SDS National Office at 1225 South Wabash Street. © Ce ; . Qe HYM, a pro-Communist revolutionary. youth organization, was organized in 1969, first as a faction within the SDS, then as a 7 separate group with headquarters in Atlanta Georgia, RYM was unsuccessful in attracting - support, and by mid~1970, it was practically ~ defunct. “os « ~ 5 =