# Antiwar Movement

> Antiwar Movement is mapped as the new left: it joined participatory democracy, antiwar action, racial justice, counterculture, and revolutionary experiment.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:american-1960s:antiwar-movement` |
| Family | American Radical Politics of the 1960s |
| Domain | History |
| Kind | movement |
| Archetypal function | The New Left |
| Epistemic status | sourced_claim; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Antiwar Movement belongs to the **American Radical Politics of the 1960s** family. It is treated as a specific political object, role, institution, tactic, event, ideology, or mechanism before any symbolic transfer is made.

## What it does

Antiwar Movement joined participatory democracy, antiwar action, racial justice, counterculture, and revolutionary experiment, changing who can act, what becomes visible, and which costs are distributed to others.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Antiwar Movement, while shifting cost, delay, risk, exclusion, or dependence toward actors with less authority, information, organization, money, or safe access. The distribution is conditional, not an essence of the node.

## Archetypal function

**The New Left.** Antiwar Movement is mapped as the new left: it joined participatory democracy, antiwar action, racial justice, counterculture, and revolutionary experiment.

## Gift

expanded imagination, courage, organizing forms, and political theater; through Antiwar Movement, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

fractured through ego, faction, burnout, repression, sexism, and violence; Antiwar Movement can then reproduce the very arrangement it claims to change.

## Conditions

- scale and jurisdiction are explicit
- affected people and absent stakeholders are named
- time horizon and countermoves are considered

## Strategic meaning

Use Antiwar Movement to identify the operative target, resource, dependency, decision forum, and likely countermove. Ask what would make the mechanism stronger, weaker, more legitimate, or less necessary.

## Divinatory meaning

The New Left enters through Antiwar Movement. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Antiwar Movement becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**resource.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Antiwar Movement; another player names a countermove. Initiative 3.

## Relationships

- **amplifies — Revolutionary Youth Movement:** Revolutionary Youth Movement amplifies Antiwar Movement by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(cultural_historical; supported)_
- **translates into — Draft Resistance:** Antiwar Movement translates into Draft Resistance by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(cultural_historical; supported)_
- **institutionalizes — Partisan Media:** Partisan Media institutionalizes Antiwar Movement by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **depends on — Clientelism:** Antiwar Movement depends on Clientelism by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Antiwar Movement from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Antiwar Movement is an effect of the system it appears to drive?
- Change the clock: what looks different over a day, an election cycle, a generation, and a century?
- Ask when the Gift becomes the Wound through scale, secrecy, intensity, latency, or unequal reciprocity.

## Epistemic and Sentinel note

Claim layers: cultural_historical, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory. Scope, jurisdiction, period, and source perspective may change the claim.
No node-specific Sentinel factors were recorded; ordinary source, audience, and context checks still apply.

## Visual direction

A text-free enamel expression of Antiwar Movement: one dominant mechanism, one counterforce, raised warm-metal linework, midnight field, restrained civic red, teal, ivory, and amber. No party logo, national flag, sacred symbol, or recognizable person.

## Research / provenance

- [The Port Huron Statement](https://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111huron.html) — Students for a Democratic Society, 1962. New Left critique and participatory-democracy program.
- [COINTELPRO Records](https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro) — Federal Bureau of Investigation Vault, 1956–1971. Government records concerning covert disruption of political organizations.
- [Church Committee Reports](https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/investigations/church-committee.htm) — U.S. Senate, 1975–1976. Investigations of intelligence abuses and subsequent oversight reforms.

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Engine Output version 1.0.0; generated 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z. Sentinel annotations are stored separately in `sentinel/handoffs.json`.
