Anti-war splinter groups radicalized into theatrical protest tactics via factional chain

Evidence

According to an undated, one-page NYPD background sheet, the Crazies were composed of former members of the Coalition for an Anti-Imperialist Movement (CO-AIM), itself an offshoot of Youth Against War and Fascism, the youth organization the Workers World Party, a splinter of the Socialist Workers Party. During the 1968 presidential campaign, CO-AIM targeted “ ‘liberal’ gatherings” at which Robin Palmer and Sharon Krebs would “strip nude, carry pigs’ heads, and display Vietcong flags.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 2009

Categorization

• XREF: The stripping-nude, pigs’-heads, Vietcong-flags tactic list reads as a mid-’60s radical performance language comparable to the Living Theatre’s Paradise Now provocations—a documentation chain linking happenings to street politics. — connects to: West German rearmament with atomic weapons spurred the first large-scale protest wave — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2345; Intra-society factional warfare shaped the launch of rival neoliberal organizations — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 370; A protest movement’s splintering makes its demands easy for rulers to ignore — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 302 (+2 more)