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{= APPENDIX REVOLUTIONARY YOUTH MOVEMENT A source advised that the Revolutionary Youth Movement II (RYHMII) faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held a national conference at Atlanta, Georgia, from November 26 to 30, 1969, At this conference it was decided to form a new organization to be known as Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM), characterized as a mass anti-imperialist youth organization, said organization being proposed as separate and distinct in form and content from SNS. The "Principles of _bnity” adopted _by the conference included | a against imperialism, anticommunism, fascism pnd oppression of youth; and support of the right of self-determination of all “oppressed nations," also support of the right of all “oppressed and exploited" neonples "to armed self-defense." It was agreed that RYM would not be a Marxist-Leninist organization; however, source said this was decided in order to indicate an organization broad enough in form to be acceptable to everyone. A temporary National Steering Committee {NSC) made up of ef ght females and tivo males wa elected to govern RYM until national officers could be elected, during the Spring of 1970. wy RY publications have listed the RYi1 National Office (NO) at Post Office Box 5421 and Post Office Box 77012 C, both Atlanta, Georgia, and a second Source has advised that the NO has no office snace hut would probably he considered as located at Apartment 27, 1067 Alta Avenue N.E., Atlanta. Second source advised that women dominated the founding conference and have continued to dominate NSC meetings to the point that "women's liberation” has apparently become tne RYH's principal issue - also that RYM's poor financial condition has resulted in its failure to publisn a paper. During early 1970, RYM has decided to cater to the working class rather than youth, since the potential for social revolution lies in workers. A third source has stated that it was decided at the March, 1970, NSC mecting that RYM women had decided the organization will be molded into a “working class, “Marxist~ Leninist, revolutionary, anti-imperialist, problack Nationalist, people's women's liberation organization.”