Women’s Liberation and Feminism “Women are an oppressed class. Our oppression is total, affecting every facet of our lives. We are exploited as sex objects, breeders, domestic servants, and cheap labor. We are considered inferior beings, whose only purpose is to enhance men’s lives. Our humanity is denied. Our prescribed behavior is enforced by […] Continue reading →

 The Sexual Revolution When you coordinate and liberate and release the sexuality and the minds of youth, and can twist it and change it toward a different goal and direction, via rock ‘n roll, via fucking in the streets, via dope, via action, direct action … then you can maybe push this country and we […] Continue reading →

The Student Rights Movement The most exciting things going on in America today are movements to change America…The futures and careers for which American students now prepare are for the most part intellectual and moral wastelands. This chrome-plated consumers paradise would have us grow up to be well-behaved children. – Mario Savio (Free Speech Movement […] Continue reading →

The Anti-War Movement We bled inside each other’s wounds we had caught the same disease we all sang the songs of peace. Melanie – Lay Down Protesters in D.C. The Vietnam war divided the country into hawks and doves. Thousands of young men fled to Canada rather than allow themselves to be drafted and sent […] Continue reading →

Black Power Malcolm X You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. – Malcolm X Many black people felt the civil rights movement was achieving the economic, social and political liberation of the race. Some of them, more radical, were disgusted with the slow pace […] Continue reading →

How It All Began January, 1961 saw the inauguaration of a new president, John F. Kennedy. The youngest president ever, he brought a vibrant energy into the White House, and claimed to represent a new generation of Americans. His enthusiasm was contagious and his famous inaugural speech ended with ask not what your country can […] Continue reading →

The Civil Rights Movement Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. – Martin Luther King, Jr.   Black protesters getting the high pressure hose in Birmingham, Alabama 1963 For the 15 percent of Americans who were black, living in an American version of Apartheid meant being treated […] Continue reading →

The Vietnam War We should declare war on North Vietnam. . . .We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas. – Ronald Reagan, 1965 The Vietnam War was something that affected everyone in America. If you didn’t get drafted, you knew someone who did, who […] Continue reading →