Radical Activist
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Sat Dec-23-06 08:56 PM
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Poll question: Which war protest is more impressive? |
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Edited on Sat Dec-23-06 09:03 PM by Radical Activist
Let's provide a reality check for those who are watching the news about protests instead of participating in them like they used to when they were young.
Which of these events is more impressive?
Things are getting better folks, not worse.
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Sat Dec-23-06 09:01 PM
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1. Hey, many of us Boomers were there, too. |
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It would be great to see a million in DC from all generations come together to demand an end to this war. And we weren't all hippies, and we often had a lot more than 60,000. Whippersnapper.
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Sat Dec-23-06 09:12 PM
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I guess my first version was too long and got cut off.
I think we would have that millions of all the boomers who protested Vietnam came back and joined the new generation.
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Sat Dec-23-06 09:16 PM
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but don't forget two things: first, we're getting on in years and some of us can't get out there due to severe health problems and second, we're the robbed generation. Most of us don't have the money to travel to DC after we spent it all raising you and we have no pensions to look forward to.
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Sat Dec-23-06 09:18 PM
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4. There were at least 100,000 of us trying to levitate the Pentagon... |
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I remember it well. Tear gas everywhere, the Fugs were playing on a flatbed truck. I got arrested.
October 1967 - "Confront The War-makers"
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Sat Dec-23-06 09:28 PM
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5. I was a protestor against Viet Nam and against Iraq |
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Never got to a big protest, as didn't have the means...and btw, not everyone who is a Boomer was a hippie, either. But levitating the Pentagon would have been cool....
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Sat Dec-23-06 09:54 PM
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6. Protesters to America: we told you so. |
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Dems knew that the war was a lie and a big mistake. They just didn't have the evidence to prove it so they demonstrated. Now the evidence proves that the war was a lie and the civil war shows it was a mistake.
Next time America should listen to people who care about this country rather than to conservatives and Republicans who want to make profits off of other's misery.
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Sat Dec-23-06 10:31 PM
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7. Where are you getting your numbers from? |
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I think that you are way off. I would refer you to the chapter titled "Rubin and the Rising of the Pentagon" from "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture," by Abbie Hoffman, Perigee Books, 1980.
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Radical Activist
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Sun Dec-24-06 07:04 PM
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8. I googled. One source said 50,000, another said 70,000 |
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Mon Dec-25-06 03:21 PM
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9. The Iraq War protest wasn't very impressive. |
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My mainstream media sources told me there were only a few hundred people there.:sarcasm:
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Tue Dec-26-06 03:06 PM
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Mon Dec-25-06 07:44 PM
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10. Protester's out of the US. manage to draw much larger numbers, freedom ain't what it use to be |
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Mayor Bloomberg says no protesting in central park, it would damage the grass...
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Mon Dec-25-06 07:55 PM
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11. The guy who set himself on fire in the War on Christmas |
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Now THAT was impressive.
Short of that, it's all just anti-climactic for me.
(Are we seriously trying to decide which form of protest is 'better'? Yeah boy, This party has it together!!)
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Mon Dec-25-06 08:19 PM
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12. This was a response to |
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another one of the "why aren't the young people of today protesting like us boomers did?" posts. The fact is that young people of this generation showed up to protest faster and in larger numbers than the baby boomers.
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Mon Dec-25-06 08:23 PM
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I figured that part out, I should have made myself more clear. I was commenting on people commenting on the 'young people of today'. I have heard that before and I think it is not a valid comparison. For one thing, the young people of today aren't faced with a draft. I am thinking that if they were, you would see them levitating the Pentagon in FACT, not just in a drug induced mental haze.
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Wed Dec-27-06 03:05 PM
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19. hey, we young people today suck! our elders and betters were |
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way cooler than us. we're lame. we wouldn't know a good protest if it kicked us in the shin. stupid kids and our stupid video games.
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Tue Dec-26-06 04:46 PM
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15. Gen X & Y were not standing alone in protests before the war. |
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I was there; so were many of my generation and older.
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Wed Dec-27-06 01:19 AM
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:rofl:
AWESOME post.
Man, if only our generation cared as much as the baby boomers, this war would be OVER by now!
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Wed Dec-27-06 02:56 PM
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17. Why is this a contest? |
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Welcome to the peace demonstrations, glad to have you with us.
Bill
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Wed Dec-27-06 03:02 PM
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Often we of the Gen x/y persuasion get no credit from the boomers. They protested Vietnam, but now the give us Iraq. I know this is broad generalization stuff, but I'm personally tired of people from my parents generation constantly bagging on my generation when they're the ones running this fucking mess we call America.
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