![]() ![]() ![]() With interviews from leaders and members of the Students for a Democratic Society, draft dodgers, enlisted soldiers, the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Women’s Rights movement, police, marines, politicians, and whistleblowers (with a music playlist to read along to), this book masterfully captures the personal responsibility and socio-cultural dynamics of the time.Īs people became aware of the atrocities of Vietnam war and the ongoing oppression of marginalized people within the US, they began to wake up to the systems of power and sought a new way of doing things. ![]() Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vet, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul by Clara Bingham provides an intimate glimpse into the lives of individuals engaged in this period of social change. ![]() Learning about the successes, fallibility and failures of the sixties peace movement can inform how we go about social transformation and how we cultivate our own sense of personal responsibility for a greater cause. Building on collective actions that came before, the anti-war movement drew on lessons learned from movements like the civil rights movement to develop knowledge, skills and tactics. At the same time it was a continuation of a transgenerational process of striving to bring out the best of humanity. The anti-war movement of the late sixties and early seventies was a short, intense period of social transformation. ![]()
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