1969 Point Of Breaking (The Vietnam Protest - Washington, DC)

[Joanne98]

Run time: 07:54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoeWqtjCJ_I   Posted on YouTube: February 03, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: February 03, 2009 By DU Member: Joanne98 Views on DU: 1523

 

[liberal N proud]

1. Thanks for digging this up

[janet118]

5. I was there - I believe it was November 15, 1969

I hitchhiked from Boston with my friend Barbara. It was very cold. We got separated and were supposed to meet up at the Lincoln Memorial but that didn't happen. The guy from MIT who gave me a ride back to Boston asked me out to a Rolling Stones concert.

There were demonstrations almost monthly back then, culminating after Kent State in May of 1970. That one was wild. I remember that the entire perimeter of the White House was surrounded by school buses and the National Guard stood behind them. Tear gas was everywhere.

It's funny. The Inauguration of Barack Obama on January 20th was the first time I'd ever been to DC when I wasn't there to express anger about a war or domestic violence or voting fraud. It felt wonderful!!!

[mythyc]

6. this statement speaks volumes:

It's funny. The Inauguration of Barack Obama on January 20th was the first time I'd ever been to DC when I wasn't there to express anger about a war or domestic violence or voting fraud. It felt wonderful!!!

change is happening, really eh B-)

[wilt the stilt]

2. I was there

It was a great day. We were hanging out with Bill Ayers

[patrice]

3. Thanks!

When we no longer have the courage to stand up to being enslaved by the Military Industrial Complex, it's over for us as a nation.

[Sancho]

4. Thank you, thank you!

I was so against that war (and the current war)! I was A1 in the draft for two years and I still remember the friends who didn't return. My number never came up.

What a waste. I didn't have the deferment clout the the *bushies* enjoyed!

I remember not speaking to my father (ret. major) for about a year over our differences.

In hindsight, we were doing the right thing: and I'm very glad that I took an early stand for peace.

I only wish the college students that I teach now were as passionate as we were...Thanks, again for the post.

I may have to go hunt down some old friends on facebook after watching that video.

[tavalon]

7. I wasn't at that one but I was at 2 others during this decade to protest the Iraq War

But we were so apathetic that we could only bring out about 600-750 thousand protesters. The heartbreaking thing is that the fourth estate screwed us and carry water for the war mongering war criminals of this country. It was awful to be erased that way - now don't get me wrong but showing up in DC with close to a million fellow war protesters was cool in and of itself but I truly understand the Koan about the tree in the forest every time some one on DU says that we're too apathetic these days. I suppose, had I not seen both of those protests with my own eyes, the media could have fooled me as well. But you can't tell me on local radio that thousands protested and you can't tell me on national tv that tens of thousands marched when I WAS THERE.

There isn't apathy at all. There is a continued, calculated attempt by the mainstream media to deny that we exist.

[janet118]

8. This is from a post I made re Iraq War protest in 2003

"I was in NYC during the pre-Iraq War protest at the UN in early 2003. There were close to, and perhaps more than, a million people there. There were also a huge number of police and military herding people far away from the site of the protest and into corrals made of metal barriers. To say that you felt stupid and impotent imprisoned inside those cages is an understatement. At several points, there were police on horseback forcing crowds onto sidewalks and arresting them if they tried to cross the street or were forced to walk in the street because the sidewalks were too small to accommodate the crowd. It was horrific and became dangerous to bring children into those areas. It was barely covered on local news and ignored by the national media which instead showed the huge protests in Rome and London, but not NYC."

LINK

I agree . . . the corporate media stopped covering demonstrations or minimized/marginalized them.