Damn, I miss the Viet Nam protests!

[graywarrior]

Just say Going Upriver. I miss those days. We need another revolution.

[Booster]

1. If they steal it, you'll get your wish. Meet ya in the streets.

[CrowNotAngelGRL]

14. And John Kerry can lead us!!

[DenverDem]

2. It doesn't take a Weatherman to see which way the wind blows.

I've still got my white helmet and I'm ready.

[Carla in Ca]

3. It was a decade to remember, wasn't it?

The war was tragic, the music, oh, the music.
The way we treated our troops was shameful, but we learned our lesson.
Revolution? If * wins, give me a call.

[Eloriel]

4. I miss the 60s period

But are you folks watching American Dreams? It's such a fabulous show about that era. (Sunday nights, 8 pm Eastern, I think on NBC.)

[graywarrior]

5. I LOVE the smell of tear gas at the Newport Folk Festival

What a trip that was.

[G_j]

9. hey I remember that

(probably because I avoided the bad acid) ..'70
The year before was magical, it's scary how much changed in a year.

edit, I was also just remembering waking up in the morning to a policeman yelling in a megaphone as a row of cops tromped through the woods knocking down our tents with billy-clubs. That was a truly bizzare experience.

[graywarrior]

11. I remember that. Our van got beat upon with clubs at 6 am.

I remember walking on some beach (stoned of course) and tear gas was everywhere. I didn't care mush at the time. I think I was pissed because we were forced to leave so early in the morning, I had to wash my hair at a gas station, and I had to leave a case of beer somewhere.

[G_j]

12. wow, we went to that beach also

had probably only slept an hour, so we slept on the beach where I got one the worst sunburns of my life. Then drove home to Long Island, four people in two seat FIAT convertible! No wonder I don't think of that experience too often!

You are one of the few people I've met who was at Newport in '70.

the people were too crazy at that festival they were pulling down fences and throwing stuff at the cops.

The summer before ('69) the festival was great and we also went to Woodstock that year.
I still think that Woodstock was the beginning of the end. :-(

[Carla in Ca]

6. Woodstock

[Freepers are pussies]

7. I like the picture of the sign!

n/t

[knowbody0]

8. i have ptsd

and all this unearthing of the past is very healing. it was madness then, and this here pickle is our legacy. kent state scared the piss out of us. my best march was in 74. we stopped rush hour traffic on the freeway for four hours. the guns had bayonetts. the revolution is not being televised but for many never ended.peace out lol

[ElkHunter]

10. Kent State didn't scare me...

...it made me angrier than hell. From that point until years afterwards I did indeed consider myself a revolutionary. I did have the privilage, however, of helping to lead one of the last demonstrations against Nixscum before he had to resign as President. Fittingly, that demostration took place on May 4, 1974.

I do not wish for the "old days." The demonstrations and activities taking place today are much better and accomplish more than we did back in the 1960's. Yes, back then we helped stop the war. However, we did not have as substantial backing in the Democratic party then as we do today. Our failure then to take our politics from the streets to the halls of Congress and even the White House has consequences that still linger to this day.

[coalition_unwilling]

13. As a late baby-boomer (10 yrs. old in 1970)

I can mostly only rely on my readings in history for my 'take' on the era. I would say the anti-war movement's principal failure in the 60's was in building meaningful bridges to the labor movement. The two united could have brought about a quasi-revolution here; now, the labor movement is nascent (altho showing signs of re-birth perhaps) and the anti-war movement also seems a bit nascent as well.