VLVL "the Movemment"

[Joseph Tracy]

 I think it is jbor saying
but after the campus strikes and the march on Washington in 1970 there were
>> no more protests of note)

The March on Washington was Nov 1969
In The Summer of 70  there were campus stikes in response  to U.S. troops moving into Cambodia, which shut down over 100 campuses. 4 students were shot dead  at Kent State.  The numbers of americans opposing the war was increased when the My Lai massacre was exposed and there was another massive broad based protest  ( I think 71)which took place in major cites accross the country, but campus leaders  and ministers were still the main organizing force. Vietnam vets and Daniel Ellsburg then took center stage  and together with  the Vietnamese who opposed  the occupation and division of their country,  forced the U,S, to give up and leave.

I think the student movement always looked more powerful than its real numbers because of press attention and a generation of media savvy  organizers.   The student movement was flawed by sexism,  violence,  arrogant cliquishness and other human  failures. It is also true that through its success in challenging  the dominant culture some very powerful forces  were set in motion or invigorated: the exposure of dark side of imperailism and anti-communist  paranoia, feminism,  multiculturalism, the arts  and academia as cultural and political forces, the mind altering power of drugs,  music, magic and  religion, the science of ecology. 
 




Joseph Tracy
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