>From Keith Addison: > >>http://www.alternet.org/story/33896/ >>Bring the Sixties Out of the Closet >>By Don Hazen, AlterNet. Posted March 23, 2006. >><skip to quote from Hazen's article> >> > >"Lately, I've been thinking a lot about the '60s (actually the period > from '67 to '73) -- that political era so filled with possibility, so > much a part of the blood and souls of millions of aging baby boomers > like myself. The period was profoundly effective in the changes it > provoked, yet is so persistently pilloried for its exaggerated > excesses." > >This brings back a wave of nostalgia for me.
And for me Jack. I wasn't in the US, but I was in quite a lot of other interesting places. It was a global phenomenon, the first Global Village maybe. I think it could only have started in the US though, no US no Sixties. Not just nostalgia though because it never really ended, or at least not for me. I must say I agree with Don Hazen. Several people have been making similar sorts of noises round here recently. It was messy enough, as Hazen says, gosh. But how could it not have been? As he says it was "profoundly effective in the changes it provoked", I'm sure that's right, despite the common fallacy that it failed. It didn't die either. Hazen says it should come out of the closet, not out of its coffin. I think what it was short of was the Internet, and a lot of those people are still around, they didn't stop, and now they use the Internet too. >I am 66 years old and from the so-called "silent generation" that >preceded the baby boomers, but in 1972 this Oklahoman found himself >campaigning for George McGovern on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. >McGovern lost to Nixon after which I was in a peaceful march on >Washington with about 200,000 people coming in buses from up and >down the East Coast on January 20, 1973, the day of Nixon's second >inaugural. Our march was a counter-event to the Nixon inauguration. >We were civil and at the Washington Monument we heard dignified >speeches from Senator Philip Hart, Rep. Bella Abzug, songs and >speaking from Pete Seeger, etc. But in a typical 60's way, our day >was cut short when Washington police on horseback scarily rode at >fast gait though our group - breaking it up - in an overreaction to >a few extremists, not with our group, burning some of the flags that >surround the Washington Monument. > -- Jack Nice, Jack! Hazen quotes the Sixties fugitive saying "If we don't do something, all our lives we will feel regret." No regrets! All best Keith _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
