PBS show on Village - Vietnam , Korea protests - not Iraq ("the 30 years

[robbedvoter]

rule)
There was an otherwise excellent documentary on Greenwich Village. Politics, music, literature, gay rights - lots of good interviews. There were scenes from anti-Vietnam protests, Korea was even mentioned. I recognized very short, carefully clipped scenes from our protest against the Iraq war - but all the signs you could read were saying "peace" or "No invasion". The Word Iraq was carefully left out. Even when Tim Robbins were saying "there's still a core - I can feel it" - you knew the sentence was cut somewhere.
On the MLK shows they were mentioning the Civil Rights activism, voting rights - never a segue to Florida or Ohio.
I think there is a 30 years rule on our teevee - nothing more recent can be mentioned (not some liberal occurence, that is)

[GrumpyGreg]

1. The heyday of Greenwich Village is over ---it's been gentrified.

[robbedvoter]

4. Well, that's precisely my point - reports of its death are exagerated

I hail from the more vital East Vilage and still say that is you look at the right indicators (politics for one) you see that the effects of the gentrification are vastly overrated.

[Stephanie]

2. It might have taken that long to finish the film

Also the Iraq war protests didn't really happen in that area. One of them wound up there, but it was a much smaller march than the February 15 The World Says No to War and the August 2004 march against Bush & the RNC, which were in midtown.

[robbedvoter]

3. True, but the glue that makes the Village is politics

To this day, it's what unites all its eclectic residents - and it had to take them a great effort to skate around it.
Sure the anti-war marched - even in NYC - are bigger than the Village. But they exist, and to separate the two shows extreme hypocrisy - which was my point