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[The Traveler]

about violent vs non-violent tactics remind me ... of my days as a hippie!! lol!

Yeah, we asked the same questions. And there were a wide range of opinions on the subject.

Hippies were not monolithic in terms of tactics or objectives. Hippies certainly supported all the causes of women's rights, civil rights, and environmental rights, etc. ... but not all hippies invested equally in all those causes. There was no single "hippie creed". You had anarchists and communists and socialists and even libertarian hippies. Certainly, we achieved by various pressures various changes. But there was never a concise, coherent, universally accepted "hippie manifesto". Still, some really good things were accomplished.

And if some ground has been lost since those initial victories ... don't blame the people who went to the picket lines to win them. Rather, blame those who did not appreciate the progress earned enough to defend it.