Anti-War+Movement-+Joey+and+Blaine



__media type="custom" key="6237901" [] /\nti War Movement.__ Topic1- The start The Anti war movment really started a flame in the late 1960's when activists felt that they were being ignored, as a result, demonstrations turned violent. Along with the civil rights campaigns in the 1960's the Anti war movement was a diverse protest against the vietnam war. Topic 2- SDS (students for a Democratic socioty) SDS was formed in 1960 as the Student democratic branch of the government. Jack London was a member, so was Upton Sinclair, but the organization disbanned until. Michael Harrington, a New York socialist, revived it late in the 1950s as a forum for laborers, African Americans, and intellectuals. The orginization was shortly over taken by two students Al Haber and Tom Hayden, both of the University of Michigan. Topic 3-Free Speech Movement The free speech movement was a link between the civil rights and the anti war movement. The Free Speech Movement started at the University of California at Berkeley, in December,1964. This was a demonstration to students to show them how to bring change trough organization. The organization waited around for a cataclyst to bring them to a wider audience. This cataclys came around when the US started bombing North Vietnam. Topic 4- The March on Washington- The Anti-War movement was more powerful than ever between 1969 and 1973. By now, most Americans opposed the war because they believed that the economic cost was too high. In November of 1969 a march on Washington brought 500,000 participants. But the leadership; the SDS members which were well-dressed students from college were replaced by people with long hair, drug use, and no public respect otherwise known as the hippie. Protest music, written usually by Joan Baez or Bob Dylan, contributed to the separation between the young and the old. Cultural and political protests started to form together within the movements frontlines. Leaders of these groups would even target the soldiers that fought in war, these leaders would jeer, taunt, or even spit on soldiers in airports and also right in the middle of a street! A unique situation arose when people supported the groups but not the actual leaders commanding them. In April 1970, Nixon was planning to withdrawl but annouced that U.S. forces had entered Cambodia. Within a few minutes protesters took to the streets with renewed vigor. Then, on may 4th, National Guardsmen fired on a group of student protesters at Kent State University, killing four and wounding sixteen. This action created even more groups that opposed the war. New groups such as the Nobel science laureates, State Department officers, and the American Civil Liberties Union all openly called for withdrawl. But Stories of drug trafficking, political assassination, and indiscriminate bombings led people to believe that military and intelligence services had lost all accountability. Anti war groups who were thought to be unamerican were now thought to be a good way to end the war. On January 1973, Nixon announced the end of the U.S. involvement in the war. Kent State Protest- On May 4th 1970 the Ohio National Guard fired on a crowd of protesters at Kent State University. The protests started on May 1st, with speeches against The Vietnam war and Nixon, a copy of the constitioution was burried to symbolize the "Murder" of the document. The next protest was to be on May 4th. On May 2nd a rep from the Ohio National Guard came to the campus to prevent farther disruptions. The protests then started to get out of hand. An ROTC building next to the campus was set ablase. On May 4th many Ohio National Guardsmen were protecting the campus. As the guards were potroling the campus, they were making their way up Blanket hill they turned around suddenly and fired upon the crowd. Killing 4 and wounding 16.

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