april 1967- 400,000 - held anti war demonstrations, 40000, burning of draft cards
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MARCH ON THE PENGTAGON
Oct 1967 - 100000 atended, 650 arrested on steps of P for civil disobedience
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Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam
OCT 1969- massive demonstration and teach in across america, 1st natonwide moratorium, largest turn out= Boston= 10000 attended a speech by antiwar senator George McGovern
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MARCH AGAINST DEATH
Nov 1969 - 40,000 paraded silently towards white house- each holding placard w the name of a dead US soldier or a destroyed Vietnamese village - 1 eve= violence broke out - police used tear gas
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MORATORIUM MARCH ON WASHINGTON
Nov 1969 - over 500,000 demonstratos
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ERAP
Economic Research and action Project - community organising projects in sevral cities- led to critique of the liberal presidents who took the nation to war - empowered LOCAL people
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Baby boom
1950= 20% of the pop under 20 years old
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change in n. of high school grads going to uni
1930= 1 in 7 vs 1960= 1 in 3
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FSM- what sparked it?
arrest of Jack Weinberg - 1st oct 1964
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participatory democracy
encourages the participation of all willing members to see how they should proceed
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ISSUES OF 1968:
1) Soviet invasion of Czech 2) My LAi Massacre becomes public 3) assaination of Robert Kennedy + mLK 4) anti war protests @ the democratic partys national convention n chicago- ends in violence
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