Editing Todd Gitlin (section)

=== Activism ===
Gitlin became a political activist in 1960, when he joined a Harvard undergraduate group called Tocsin, against nuclear weapons.<ref name="CrimsonInterview">{{cite news |title='I Thought the Movement Was Going to Be My Life.' |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1988/6/9/i-thought-the-movement-was-going/ |work=The Harvard Crimson |date=June 9, 1988}}</ref> He went on to become vice-chairman and then chairman of the group.<ref name="Crimson1">{{cite news |title=Tocsin Leaders Say Cuban Situation Encouraged Changes in Orientation |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1962/12/3/tocsin-leaders-say-cuban-situation-encouraged/ |work=The Harvard Crimson |date=December 3, 1962}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Russin |first1=Joseph M. |title=Tocsin Expects More Than 300 From University to Join March |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1962/2/7/tocsin-expects-more-than-300-from/ |work=The Harvard Crimson |date=February 7, 1962}}</ref> He helped organize a national demonstration in Washington, February 16–17, 1962, against the arms race and nuclear testing.<ref name="Crimson1" /> In 1963 and 1964, Gitlin was president of [[Students for a Democratic Society (1960 organization)|Students for a Democratic Society]].<ref name="Smithsonian">{{cite web |last1=Gitlin |first1=Todd |title=What Was the Protest Group Students for a Democratic Society? Five Questions Answered |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-was-protest-group-students-democratic-society-five-questions-answered-180963138/ |publisher=Smithsonian Magazine |date=May 4, 2017}}</ref> He helped organize the first national [[Opposition to the Vietnam War|demonstration against]] the [[Vietnam War]], held in Washington, D.C., April 17, 1965, with 25,000 participants, as well as the first civil disobedience directed against American corporate support for the [[apartheid]] regime in South Africa—a sit-in at the Manhattan headquarters of [[Chase Manhattan Bank]] on March 19, 1965.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Miller |first1=Bettye |title=Sixties Activist, Writer Todd Gitlin to Lecture Dec. 3 |url=https://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/25960 |publisher=University of California, Riverside |date=November 21, 2014}}</ref><ref>[[Kirkpatrick Sale|Sale, Kirkpatrick]], ''SDS'' (New York: Random House, 1973), pp.&nbsp;153–54.</ref> In 1968 and 1969, he was an editor at and a contributor to the ''[[San Francisco Express Times]]'', an underground newspaper, and wrote regularly for underground papers via [[Liberation News Service]]. {{citation needed|date=May 2025}}

In the mid-1980s, he was a leader of Berkeley's Faculty for Full [[Disinvestment from South Africa|Divestment]] and president of Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni/-ae Against Apartheid. He actively opposed both the [[Gulf War]] of 1991<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Beamish |first1=Thomas D. |last2=Molotch |first2=Harvey |last3=Flacks |first3=Richard |title=Who Supports the Troops? Vietnam, the Gulf War, and the Making of Collective Memory |journal=Social Problems |date=August 3, 1995 |volume=42 |issue=3 |page=345|doi=10.2307/3096852 |jstor=3096852 |doi-access=free }}</ref> and the [[Iraq War]] of 2003.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Postel |first1=Danny |title=It Wasn't About Oil, and It Wasn't About the Free Market: Why We Invaded Iraq |url=https://inthesetimes.com/article/what-the-iraq-war-teaches-us |publisher=In These Times |date=February 11, 2015}}</ref> He vocally supported both the [[Kosovo War|bombing of Yugoslavia]] in 1999 and the [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|occupation of Afghanistan]] in 2002.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kellner|first=Douglas|date=September 26, 2006|title=Education and the Academic Left: Critical Reflections on Todd Gitlin|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/203613|journal=College Literature|language=en|volume=33|issue=4|pages=137–154|doi=10.1353/lit.2006.0056|s2cid=144315828 |issn=1542-4286|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In 2013, he became involved in the alumni wing of the Divest Harvard<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.divestharvard.com/|title=Divest Harvard|website=Divest Harvard}}</ref> movement, seeking the university's [[Fossil fuel divestment|exit from fossil fuel corporations]]. He was also active in a Columbia faculty group supporting such divestment. He actively opposed the [[Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions]] movement targeted at Israel. {{citation needed|date=May 2025}}