i'm doing something tonight i recommend everyone try. i got high and proceeded to watch 2 or 3 clips from various documentaries that came up in the search results after searching for each decade, from the 1910s up to the 1990s and then the past decade. I'm on 1940 now..obviously. this has been a most fascinating experiment. you can see so clearly the evolution of culture, social norms, style of speaking, aesthetics, politics, morals, art, and technology. It's fascinating to watch like this...
@avedic I was told that people are getting stupid instead of what you are saying.Not sure if thats true or not but i hope people do become more educatedand progress.
@rockking05 are you kidding? humanity has been and is, evolving. always. constantly. never ending. it won't stop. ever. you are just one spoke on an infinite wheel. it's always getting better...in every way. promise.
@rockking05 Well, first of all, not everyone listens to that. Secondly, rap isn't bad at all. It's a very legitimate and creative music form. Is the commercial stuff crap? Mostly, yeah. But, that's true of every genre. That whole "I like everything except country and rap" attitude seems to have died out with the 90s...which is good. Today's generation has a much broader spectrum when it comes to musical taste. There's some amazingly creative stuff out now. You just have to find it...like always.
@rockking05 but I agree with you that commercial rap needs to get over the whole "bling bling" shtick. For a genre that usually prides itself on being socially conscious...it sure is odd to have songs about materialism....during a massive global recession. I think rap has TONS of potential...mostly unexplored. But, some of the creative underground stuff is truly mind blowing.
As for drugs...sure, there are many life destroying drugs..but also several drugs that change one's life for the better.
Ronald Reagan was a great man indeed! A++ The hippies and the freaks were absolutely worthless. The hippies and the freaks did not do a dam thing for America! The hippies and the freaks cost the taxpayers millions of dollars do to the willful and malicious destruction and defacement of public and private property that the hippies and the freaks were responsible for. in addition, millions of dollars were spent on police to protect public and private property from the hippies and freaks!
@cbarsonfire No, because they're the ones who help restore order when the shit hits the fan, and they help us (law enforcement) all the time. I love those guys. And also I love seeing hippies in pain.
You are full of BS. The NG shot unarmed kids, because they were not not properly trained for their mission. This was a fact disclosed during the investigation. "help us (law enforcement)"
Agent 69...Better stop watching detective shows. The closest you have been to law enforcement is the TV.
I have tons of respect for the people in the military. I have a huge issue when the military turns on it's citizens.
As if stopping the University Of California at Berkeley from building additional student housing and parking facilities, which were and still are badly needed years later, did a damn thing to end the Vietnam War. Gawd, I hate all these assholes.
Fucking hippies, these are the people responsible for the deaths and and suffering of millions. Cuba and Vietnam would both be democratic had it not been for these viral little fuckers, who undermined the American war effort to bring peace and prosperity to other parts of the world.
@Microglia1 The government pushed us into a civil war in asia because they didn't want Vietnam to turn "communist". Well, thousands of American lives later, we pulled out. Yeah, cause I'd really support the government for that.
@silentsniperrr all these asshole hippies are middle class kids who grew up in the 50s, in the most prosperous decade, in the most prosperous country of the world at that time. And what do they do with all this privilege? They protest when the draft comes because they will not risk their lives for a worthwhile cause. My dad was in this war and he was treated like shit when he comes home by the very people who had all the privileges. FUCK ALL YOU HIPPIES.
@Microglia1 Ok well your Dad might've been a few misfortunate vets to get treated like shit but most were welcomed proudly. Plus these aren't hippies, they are radical protesters, kinda like the black panthers.
WOW SUCH HATE. Lets see Bill Clinton escaped the draft. I have friends on the wall and visit them each time I lrave a message for them. I will do this every year until I die.. Dude they hated the freaking war. Who loves war and killing. There were radical parts of the movement but the vast majority just protested to end the war.
A vast majority of hippies became the establishment and prospered in business.
The college students had protests against the vietnam war back then, How come I don't see any college students protesting against the War on terror today??? Just saying.
@techgamer550 you don't see current students protest because they don't have to fight (no universal draft anymore). The main cause was not about "peace", "love, or "brotherhood" in the 60s. It's basically a bunch of drugged up, mostly white, middle class kids who are too afraid to fight for their country. This is the generation that will eventually lead to the demise of America. Imagine we get invaded by Russia, I doubt any of these motherfuckers would volunteer to defend the country.
ITS NOT ABOUT RIGHT AND LEFT YOU DUMMIES>>>>>>>ITS THE PEOPLE VS THE GOVERNMENT>>>>SIMPLE AS THAT>>>ANYTHING MORE AND YOUR FOOLING YOURSELF AND GONNA GO AGAINST THE PEOPLE LIKE THE PIGGIES WANT YOU TOO!
I was watching that "American Experience" documentary on PBS about Reagan on Monday, and when they brought up the fact the students at the University of California/Berkeley had protested from 1964 to '69 over the simple wish of freedom of speech, I was shocked. And the government didn't bail them out! It made me think of what my Mom said to me recently: They can bail out the banks and car companies, but not to our people? And to think: This wouldn't happened if JFK had gotten killed in Dallas.
@EricandDish: Oh yes, it would have. LBJ was just faithfully carrying JFK's Vietnam policy. The mystique of martyrdom does not change that. And in this "People's Park" case, all the asshole "students" (many of whom were not) did was deny the University additional student dorrmitories and parking, which were and still are badly needed in subsequent years.
I think after 50 years we can see the youth were correct about the way America has gone.
These race genicide crooks are still there after they killed JFK &won their victory over McCathy who warned the nation about them like Eisenhower farewell speech.
The real sell out are the grandparents of that generation-they knew better & did nothing about it.
The youth copped the blame & branded unjustly by lazy conservative parents who justifed these evil men
It is so hard for the kids to understand how insane our goverment was. We broke away from anything to do with the establishment, which meant anyone with the 50s mentality of the time. The late 60s and early 70s was such a great time to live.
@PANZER299 you don't really understand what hippies were about do you?they were ANTI brainwashing. I know it may be hard for someone with you're mentality to understand but they didn't want to go to war because, oh I don't know, they didn't like the idea of shooting other humans in the face and blowing them apart.
I literally live 2 blocks from people's park in berkeley...lol now there's just cracked out homeless all over it...thanks hippies! (little hint of sarcasm there)
AMERICA LOST VIETNAM WAR BECAUSE OF ITS BIASED MEDIA!!!
Since anti-war, pro-communist American media always focused on U.S. troop and Vietnamese civilian casualties, and ignored North Vietnam and Vietcong's casualties as well as their atrocities against its own people as in the case of Hue's massacre of 5000 civilians in 1968 to mislead Americans to become against Vietnam war.
I was there. It was actually the beginning of my rage. I saw 8 cops beating a 15 year old boy to the ground. I was 16 at the time. Somewhat like a spectacle in Rome.
If America had not started the war, South Vietnam would have fallen into communism in 1954 and more Vietnamese would have been murdered in cultural revolutions like those launched by Mao in China (20 million deaths) & Khmer Rouge in Cambodia (2 millions)
Total Vietnamese democide by communists: 1,040,000 (1975-87) by HCR.
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this is where the "i am entitled to everything for free" began (which, by the way, is ruining american society today...dec. 2009).
give me free food, give me free medical, give me free everything....and i will sit in this park (peoples park) and do nothing to earn it.
the hippie movement was the beginning of the "me me me" generation and it continues in 2009. the hippie movement translastes into the 'baby boomer' generation...the most 'entitlement driven crap in the world. hippies ruined all.
I don't know the people who were protesting. I can't generalize. I believe they had the right ideas, though. Even the architect of the war, McNamara, admitted that the Vietnam War was misguided. That war killed about 4 million civilians in SE Asia and 58,000 American troops. So much sorrow and trauma, and for what?
Ho chi Minh, Vietnam's communist leader, is a disguting TRAITOR & MURDERER! In exchange for chinese military aids in the war with France (1945-1954), he gave up Paracel & Spratly archipelagos with large oil resources to China. He even ordered to murder his own mistress named Nong thi Xuan when she threatened to disclose her sexual relationship with him since that would destroy his image as a "Father" of Vietnam who "sacrifices" his whole life for Vietnam revolution.
Today, berkeley students are lame robots, no spirit of protest whatsoever. I hung out therelast winter in peoples park, couldn't believe how lame the scene was
If you're committed to obedience to unjust "laws," then you are merely "law-abiding"--and a fuck.
If you are determined to resist laws that are unjust, then you're outside man's laws--but you have a real chance for authentic morality.
Then Governor "Bedtime for Bonzo" Reagan was a brainless goofball throwing his weight around (a John Wayne wannabe). Even the schmucks in Hollywood--his own turf--thought he was an idiot...
There was no reason on earth why fascist Bonzo denied the students access to People's Park--save for his trying to shore up his fragile ego by playing the Macho Man at Cal Berkeley (did Reagan actually graduate High School?).
What you see tells us who you are... What I see is who I am ... This is the generation that changed the world Revoloution in the streets of America Fighting to stop The Vietnam War Fighting to preserve the planet , clean the air, clean the water... Human Rights Civil Rights Equal Rights Ammendment So what have you done lately??? Easy to criticize what you perceive BUT... Your perception was wrong The World Is A Better Place thanks to a generation that believed in a dream
Instead of ruuning off at the mouth, maybe you should compare Locke's Second Treatise to the Declaration of Independence. Locke was the founder of Liberalism, in case you didn't know. The Founding Fathers were Lockean Liberals to a man.
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I think that says something when your movement consists of impressionable kids. Liberalism turns off the thinking switch and so many of those who fall prey to it eventually have to be deprogrammed as they realize real life kills its ideology. It has not worked, does not work, and never will work. It leaves common sense at the door and ignores experience through history. Sad to see so many that were swept up in this then and today.
The generation that changed the world , the generation which shook the very foundation of civilization filled with passion and compassion. The times were filled with causes and people willing to fight for change. How did we lose the passion , how have we become the pawns of government. I miss the 60's and am ashamed of the present. Proud to be a HIPPY of the 60's and today. PEACE
NYC Mayor Bloomberg announced a renovation -- with a privatization kicker. Without any community input, a wealthy restaurateur who is a big Bloomberg backer suddenly surfaced with a private plan. He quietly enlisted Whole Foods, Barnes & Noble, and other chains to get behind his scheme, and this private group intends to remake Union Square into a shiny new corporate space. The size of the park will be decreased, severely squeezing the space available for free speech...
Government has seen to it this will never happen again. By that i mean people all getting their information and getting together as one versus "everyone for themselves". We used to have a dream but now we're just being told about potential nightmares so that we give our government increåsed power and cling. Too many Toby Keiths and not nearly enough John Lennons.
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this crowd were mostly spoiled wealthy white liberal types .trust fund families ,many jewish who got student deferments to avoid military service.many kept going to school and today are university professors brainwashing the gullible american youth with thier anti american,left wing propaganda.this generation completely fucked up america.
@PANZER299 Shut you'r stupid, nazi, facial fuck hole... besides, stop talking about "america"... its the U.E. not america, that's a continent... asshole... nazi asshole... you should read some more... you fucking iliterate...
I like how them being Jewish would be completely irrelevant but ya had to add that in there. True right-winger right here, got nothing to do but to search far and wide for more scapegoats. Whats the matter? Gays, immigrants, Muslims and black mothers aren't enough for ya? Nope we need someone else to blame more social ills on
Challenge the "free spying" and "big brother tactics" that can ruin your life today. Fight to remove the phony "Patriot Act", they aren't using it to find terrorists, they're using it to spy on you. AMERICA IS BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE.
man it must have been a beautiful time hippies brown berets black panthers cesar chavez height and ashbury peoples park i wish i was alive back then i grew up in oakland on fruitvale in born in 77 .
Rector's death was sad and disturbing, and there was a lot of tension surrounding the People's Park confrontation. Beyond that, life seemed like it was being written day-by-day and being involved in the struggle in Berkeley was both exciting and frightening at the same time. These images bring back real memories for me, thanks for the post.
My father was one of those protesters, trapped in a square, teargassed, and shot at with shotguns. Ronald Reagan was a false symbol of American power and one of the worst governors and presidents our country has ever had.
I remembered getting the dvd from Netflix I found it very informative. I think people my age (25 and below) should take a long look at history. Maybe they'll think twice about joining the army or buying guns. When people going to live in peace with each other
I have the DVD of Berkley in the 60's and I did not know who Mario Savio was and until I looked on line and realized that my parents went to Berkley and Sonoma State while he was as a student and a professor at those colleges.
i just saw on this on tv and you gotta respect the 60s generations, this is almost 40 year later and we are far better but we still have some problems but the difference is ppl dont carea anymore (including myself)
I don't think we have got any better since the 60's, and if you don't notice that, then you must be numb. I actually think somethings in this world have actually gotten worse in the past 40 years. But society has just gotten more dominated by the government so not as much peace has been commercial shown.
I agree. I think most of the progressive developments were done by the depression era children. They fought the true battles and inspired the flower children. Look at your society today. Gen XandYs really have nothing to inspire them. This whole revolution is a tale of romance, the soul isn't there.
Your standard of living was so good that you just felt like protesting,It anyone had the right to protest it was the ones in the soviet block,not some druged up bored american student with left wing tendencies,damn them all..and then they matured
American students were protesting the over reaching of government into every aspect of life. It has happened again with "Homeland Security". I would think that someone who has had to endure Soviet Bloc oppression would support, rather than critize their actions.
When You Sit Out There And Hitch-Hike, In The Front Seat There The Parents. And They Kinda Give You This Real Scared, Contemptuous Look As They Drive By You. But Then In The Back Seat, As They're Going Away, You See All The Kids And They're Going...
my dad was telling me how he used to go to these protest.. had to come look it up... i have to say it seems like a very powerful thing to take place in.
This looks like footage from the Memorial Day, 1969, march to the park, rather than scenes from the confrontations that began with the University of California's decision to fence the park.
We could have won then, but not now. We lost our nerve after Kent State and our moral compass sometime in the 1980s.
HickysBoy 1 month ago
these guys started it, we gotta finish it...
darrenkis 2 months ago
Love it and I think I recognized a few peeps
danafandug 2 months ago
my mom was here <3
icanteatwheat 3 months ago 2
reagan cut and ran
mattcrow6 5 months ago
i'm doing something tonight i recommend everyone try. i got high and proceeded to watch 2 or 3 clips from various documentaries that came up in the search results after searching for each decade, from the 1910s up to the 1990s and then the past decade. I'm on 1940 now..obviously. this has been a most fascinating experiment. you can see so clearly the evolution of culture, social norms, style of speaking, aesthetics, politics, morals, art, and technology. It's fascinating to watch like this...
avedic 6 months ago 4
@avedic I was told that people are getting stupid instead of what you are saying.Not sure if thats true or not but i hope people do become more educatedand progress.
rockking05 3 months ago
@rockking05 are you kidding? humanity has been and is, evolving. always. constantly. never ending. it won't stop. ever. you are just one spoke on an infinite wheel. it's always getting better...in every way. promise.
avedic 3 months ago
@avedic but people today listen to that gangsta rap music that degrade money and encougar people to do and sell drugs.
rockking05 3 months ago
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@rockking05 Well, first of all, not everyone listens to that. Secondly, rap isn't bad at all. It's a very legitimate and creative music form. Is the commercial stuff crap? Mostly, yeah. But, that's true of every genre. That whole "I like everything except country and rap" attitude seems to have died out with the 90s...which is good. Today's generation has a much broader spectrum when it comes to musical taste. There's some amazingly creative stuff out now. You just have to find it...like always.
avedic 3 months ago
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@rockking05 but I agree with you that commercial rap needs to get over the whole "bling bling" shtick. For a genre that usually prides itself on being socially conscious...it sure is odd to have songs about materialism....during a massive global recession. I think rap has TONS of potential...mostly unexplored. But, some of the creative underground stuff is truly mind blowing.
As for drugs...sure, there are many life destroying drugs..but also several drugs that change one's life for the better.
avedic 3 months ago
Ronald Reagan was a great man indeed! A++ The hippies and the freaks were absolutely worthless. The hippies and the freaks did not do a dam thing for America! The hippies and the freaks cost the taxpayers millions of dollars do to the willful and malicious destruction and defacement of public and private property that the hippies and the freaks were responsible for. in addition, millions of dollars were spent on police to protect public and private property from the hippies and freaks!
NOBULLANDNOSPIN 7 months ago
I love the National Guard.
agent4051 7 months ago
@agent4051
cbarsonfire 6 months ago
@agent4051
WHY, BECAUSE THEY OPENED FIRE ON UN ARMED TEENAGERS AT KENT STATE|?
cbarsonfire 6 months ago
@cbarsonfire No, because they're the ones who help restore order when the shit hits the fan, and they help us (law enforcement) all the time. I love those guys. And also I love seeing hippies in pain.
agent4051 6 months ago
@agent4051
You are full of BS. The NG shot unarmed kids, because they were not not properly trained for their mission. This was a fact disclosed during the investigation. "help us (law enforcement)"
Agent 69...Better stop watching detective shows. The closest you have been to law enforcement is the TV.
I have tons of respect for the people in the military. I have a huge issue when the military turns on it's citizens.
cbarsonfire 6 months ago
@cbarsonfire Who's "Agent 69"?
agent4051 6 months ago
As if stopping the University Of California at Berkeley from building additional student housing and parking facilities, which were and still are badly needed years later, did a damn thing to end the Vietnam War. Gawd, I hate all these assholes.
NickB1967 8 months ago
Fucking hippies, these are the people responsible for the deaths and and suffering of millions. Cuba and Vietnam would both be democratic had it not been for these viral little fuckers, who undermined the American war effort to bring peace and prosperity to other parts of the world.
Microglia1 9 months ago
@Microglia1 The government pushed us into a civil war in asia because they didn't want Vietnam to turn "communist". Well, thousands of American lives later, we pulled out. Yeah, cause I'd really support the government for that.
silentsniperrr 8 months ago
@silentsniperrr all these asshole hippies are middle class kids who grew up in the 50s, in the most prosperous decade, in the most prosperous country of the world at that time. And what do they do with all this privilege? They protest when the draft comes because they will not risk their lives for a worthwhile cause. My dad was in this war and he was treated like shit when he comes home by the very people who had all the privileges. FUCK ALL YOU HIPPIES.
Microglia1 8 months ago
@Microglia1 Ok well your Dad might've been a few misfortunate vets to get treated like shit but most were welcomed proudly. Plus these aren't hippies, they are radical protesters, kinda like the black panthers.
silentsniperrr 8 months ago
@Microglia1
WOW SUCH HATE. Lets see Bill Clinton escaped the draft. I have friends on the wall and visit them each time I lrave a message for them. I will do this every year until I die.. Dude they hated the freaking war. Who loves war and killing. There were radical parts of the movement but the vast majority just protested to end the war.
A vast majority of hippies became the establishment and prospered in business.
cbarsonfire 6 months ago
The college students had protests against the vietnam war back then, How come I don't see any college students protesting against the War on terror today??? Just saying.
techgamer550 9 months ago
@techgamer550 you don't see current students protest because they don't have to fight (no universal draft anymore). The main cause was not about "peace", "love, or "brotherhood" in the 60s. It's basically a bunch of drugged up, mostly white, middle class kids who are too afraid to fight for their country. This is the generation that will eventually lead to the demise of America. Imagine we get invaded by Russia, I doubt any of these motherfuckers would volunteer to defend the country.
Microglia1 8 months ago
ITS NOT ABOUT RIGHT AND LEFT YOU DUMMIES>>>>>>>ITS THE PEOPLE VS THE GOVERNMENT>>>>SIMPLE AS THAT>>>ANYTHING MORE AND YOUR FOOLING YOURSELF AND GONNA GO AGAINST THE PEOPLE LIKE THE PIGGIES WANT YOU TOO!
slowlybutfasholy 10 months ago
what happened to unity like this in america? everyone is so divided now.
gogitta25 10 months ago 2
@gogitta25 Find the others!
BG2071 9 months ago
@gogitta25: Are you kidding me? that had to be *the* most divided time the nation has had in recent (last 50 years) history.
NickB1967 8 months ago
fuckin hippies
sdfgsfgbvdfv 11 months ago
I was watching that "American Experience" documentary on PBS about Reagan on Monday, and when they brought up the fact the students at the University of California/Berkeley had protested from 1964 to '69 over the simple wish of freedom of speech, I was shocked. And the government didn't bail them out! It made me think of what my Mom said to me recently: They can bail out the banks and car companies, but not to our people? And to think: This wouldn't happened if JFK had gotten killed in Dallas.
EricandDish 1 year ago
@EricandDish: Oh yes, it would have. LBJ was just faithfully carrying JFK's Vietnam policy. The mystique of martyrdom does not change that. And in this "People's Park" case, all the asshole "students" (many of whom were not) did was deny the University additional student dorrmitories and parking, which were and still are badly needed in subsequent years.
NickB1967 8 months ago
i love nam movies
mrtaroodle 1 year ago
People who protested back then were right.
They had the guts to want to change things for the better.
Today, we let the government bully us.
Shame on us.
We need to take lessons from those who were right in the 1960's.
George Vreeland Hill
GeorgeVreelandHill 1 year ago
what's da name of the song?
mozfreak84 1 year ago
@mozfreak84 I know for sure it's by The Band, I think the name is The Weight.
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dardingz 1 year ago
What the song title & by whom?
I think after 50 years we can see the youth were correct about the way America has gone.
These race genicide crooks are still there after they killed JFK &won their victory over McCathy who warned the nation about them like Eisenhower farewell speech.
The real sell out are the grandparents of that generation-they knew better & did nothing about it.
The youth copped the blame & branded unjustly by lazy conservative parents who justifed these evil men
dardingz 1 year ago
George Harrison at 0:23
bballchic21 1 year ago
It is so hard for the kids to understand how insane our goverment was. We broke away from anything to do with the establishment, which meant anyone with the 50s mentality of the time. The late 60s and early 70s was such a great time to live.
jim196869 1 year ago 3
@PANZER299 you don't really understand what hippies were about do you?they were ANTI brainwashing. I know it may be hard for someone with you're mentality to understand but they didn't want to go to war because, oh I don't know, they didn't like the idea of shooting other humans in the face and blowing them apart.
david0861513636 1 year ago
@david0861513636 very true!!
metalfanable 1 year ago
Dumb ASS song
DrjekyllakaMrhyde 1 year ago 2
I literally live 2 blocks from people's park in berkeley...lol now there's just cracked out homeless all over it...thanks hippies! (little hint of sarcasm there)
nardmanman 1 year ago 3
i looking for pic are video of holy Hubert he was a preacher at Berkeley in the 1960-1970
james72110 1 year ago
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AMERICA LOST VIETNAM WAR BECAUSE OF ITS BIASED MEDIA!!!
Since anti-war, pro-communist American media always focused on U.S. troop and Vietnamese civilian casualties, and ignored North Vietnam and Vietcong's casualties as well as their atrocities against its own people as in the case of Hue's massacre of 5000 civilians in 1968 to mislead Americans to become against Vietnam war.
TOMP66666 1 year ago
this song reminds me of working in tacky bars .
snifflesofdeath 1 year ago
Look at all that dirty lice-ridden trash. Glad the communist baby boomer morons are old and dying off now : )
ChannelAmsterdam 1 year ago
@ChannelAmsterdam
haha you know what my parents are still alive and kickin bitches
LalArt212 1 year ago
I was there. It was actually the beginning of my rage. I saw 8 cops beating a 15 year old boy to the ground. I was 16 at the time. Somewhat like a spectacle in Rome.
Redwoodrebellion 1 year ago
If America had not started the war, South Vietnam would have fallen into communism in 1954 and more Vietnamese would have been murdered in cultural revolutions like those launched by Mao in China (20 million deaths) & Khmer Rouge in Cambodia (2 millions)
Total Vietnamese democide by communists: 1,040,000 (1975-87) by HCR.
Excutions: 100,000
Camp Deaths: 95,000
Forced Labor: 48,000
Democides in Cambodia: 460,000
Democides in Laos: 87,000
Vietnamese Boat People: 500,000 deaths.
TOMP66666 2 years ago
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this is where the "i am entitled to everything for free" began (which, by the way, is ruining american society today...dec. 2009).
give me free food, give me free medical, give me free everything....and i will sit in this park (peoples park) and do nothing to earn it.
the hippie movement was the beginning of the "me me me" generation and it continues in 2009. the hippie movement translastes into the 'baby boomer' generation...the most 'entitlement driven crap in the world. hippies ruined all.
john123wayne 2 years ago
I don't know the people who were protesting. I can't generalize. I believe they had the right ideas, though. Even the architect of the war, McNamara, admitted that the Vietnam War was misguided. That war killed about 4 million civilians in SE Asia and 58,000 American troops. So much sorrow and trauma, and for what?
joanvn 2 years ago
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Ho chi Minh, Vietnam's communist leader, is a disguting TRAITOR & MURDERER! In exchange for chinese military aids in the war with France (1945-1954), he gave up Paracel & Spratly archipelagos with large oil resources to China. He even ordered to murder his own mistress named Nong thi Xuan when she threatened to disclose her sexual relationship with him since that would destroy his image as a "Father" of Vietnam who "sacrifices" his whole life for Vietnam revolution.
TOMP66666 2 years ago
Berkeley students today should take note of this video and learn what it is to protest.
MarsRevival 2 years ago
Today, berkeley students are lame robots, no spirit of protest whatsoever. I hung out therelast winter in peoples park, couldn't believe how lame the scene was
iorioriorio 2 years ago
ironically, the govener called in local guardsmen, which was some of the acutal berekley college students,
crescenti0 2 years ago
haha if you saw this on TV nowadays it would be a levis commercial.
MrThielBeats 2 years ago 31
@MrThielBeats HAHAHAHAHAHAHA so true this would be a levis commercail or somthing else
heyazzhole 1 year ago
@MrThielBeats LOL
indieambientmusic 1 year ago
@MrThielBeats Sad but true!
thudor1 8 months ago
I think my dad was there.
singthesorrow99 2 years ago
I love this song and the clips.
seasonmyduck 2 years ago 11
Can you tell me what's the name of the song please ?
heway81 3 years ago
The Weight
ass69clown 3 years ago
...by the group "The Band."
ur2sensitive 2 years ago
The weight. By the Band
cindyinnew 2 years ago
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I don't think peaceful protest don't work. Gov just ignores it. It needs to be bloody...
workingclasssociety 3 years ago
Well it depends really, sometimes it works, sometimes it dosen't.
Gandhi movement works right? And it's peaceful.
But some movements which is bloody like the Russian revolution or something where they overthrow the Tsar works, which is bloody.
blackdeckbox 2 years ago
Spent many a day running barefooted through PP!
Great free concerts by Country Joe M. and Fish, too.
TrulyHeartless 3 years ago
And, regarding "criminality"
If you're committed to obedience to unjust "laws," then you are merely "law-abiding"--and a fuck.
If you are determined to resist laws that are unjust, then you're outside man's laws--but you have a real chance for authentic morality.
Then Governor "Bedtime for Bonzo" Reagan was a brainless goofball throwing his weight around (a John Wayne wannabe). Even the schmucks in Hollywood--his own turf--thought he was an idiot...
satie2dolphy 3 years ago
There was no reason on earth why fascist Bonzo denied the students access to People's Park--save for his trying to shore up his fragile ego by playing the Macho Man at Cal Berkeley (did Reagan actually graduate High School?).
satie2dolphy 3 years ago
The Free Speech Movement and Vietnam protests had merit. The People's Park "Movement" was just criminal.
"Take the park back"? The university always owned the land. Hence you try to take something that does belong to you, your a criminal.
tcampbellla 3 years ago
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What's scary is that these pdeudo-hippies are the future of our country.
joeasmythe 3 years ago
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They all became bankers and leaders of major corporations.
worst of all, They put Obama in office
Glyvxx 3 years ago
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pghpa611 3 years ago
Have any of you been to People's Park lately? It's turned into a very scary place!
thomthum2000 3 years ago 4
those people did too much acid and never recovered. they realize now that you cant live off the land anymore. they are just homless now.
doox420 3 years ago
It's only scary because it's a park for the people and you're afraid of the people who live there.
yourmomfarted 3 years ago
Instead of ruuning off at the mouth, maybe you should compare Locke's Second Treatise to the Declaration of Independence. Locke was the founder of Liberalism, in case you didn't know. The Founding Fathers were Lockean Liberals to a man.
Megathumos1 3 years ago 3
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I think that says something when your movement consists of impressionable kids. Liberalism turns off the thinking switch and so many of those who fall prey to it eventually have to be deprogrammed as they realize real life kills its ideology. It has not worked, does not work, and never will work. It leaves common sense at the door and ignores experience through history. Sad to see so many that were swept up in this then and today.
mdbarnes21 3 years ago
The only thing I can think of that is scarier than "impressionable kids" are impressionable adults such as yourself.
tomtowle 3 years ago 3
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peoples park was for the communist left a rallying point to disrupt the moral fabric of america
SHMUJEW 3 years ago
aaand?
MissBrightside91 3 years ago
<333
jesskalouise 3 years ago
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The generation that changed the world , the generation which shook the very foundation of civilization filled with passion and compassion. The times were filled with causes and people willing to fight for change. How did we lose the passion , how have we become the pawns of government. I miss the 60's and am ashamed of the present. Proud to be a HIPPY of the 60's and today. PEACE
pghpa611 3 years ago
Time to protest again!
NYC Mayor Bloomberg announced a renovation -- with a privatization kicker. Without any community input, a wealthy restaurateur who is a big Bloomberg backer suddenly surfaced with a private plan. He quietly enlisted Whole Foods, Barnes & Noble, and other chains to get behind his scheme, and this private group intends to remake Union Square into a shiny new corporate space. The size of the park will be decreased, severely squeezing the space available for free speech...
FansFiltration 3 years ago 2
Government has seen to it this will never happen again. By that i mean people all getting their information and getting together as one versus "everyone for themselves". We used to have a dream but now we're just being told about potential nightmares so that we give our government increåsed power and cling. Too many Toby Keiths and not nearly enough John Lennons.
mdpk1 3 years ago 2
Classic footage, we need another march.
zheadmon 3 years ago
Critique the media and question authority. CONTROL IS LEGAL. KEEP FREEDOM LEGAL!!!!!!!!!
ninanwk69 3 years ago
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this crowd were mostly spoiled wealthy white liberal types .trust fund families ,many jewish who got student deferments to avoid military service.many kept going to school and today are university professors brainwashing the gullible american youth with thier anti american,left wing propaganda.this generation completely fucked up america.
PANZER299 3 years ago
ha ha. Is that so? What did you study at University? and where? What is anti-American about this?
jow1986 3 years ago 5
@PANZER299 Shut you'r stupid, nazi, facial fuck hole... besides, stop talking about "america"... its the U.E. not america, that's a continent... asshole... nazi asshole... you should read some more... you fucking iliterate...
SRV2O1O 1 year ago
@PANZER299 im with you
JesusChacin9 1 year ago
@PANZER299 and THEY were brainwashed!
david0861513636 1 year ago
@PANZER299
I like how them being Jewish would be completely irrelevant but ya had to add that in there. True right-winger right here, got nothing to do but to search far and wide for more scapegoats. Whats the matter? Gays, immigrants, Muslims and black mothers aren't enough for ya? Nope we need someone else to blame more social ills on
queerveganliberal 11 months ago
@PANZER299: And today, "People's Park" is a shit hole. It could have been badly needed student housing, hard to come by for students today.
NickB1967 8 months ago
Challenge the "free spying" and "big brother tactics" that can ruin your life today. Fight to remove the phony "Patriot Act", they aren't using it to find terrorists, they're using it to spy on you. AMERICA IS BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE.
rurikvred 3 years ago 3
man it must have been a beautiful time hippies brown berets black panthers cesar chavez height and ashbury peoples park i wish i was alive back then i grew up in oakland on fruitvale in born in 77 .
bago510 3 years ago
Fruitvale...you bring back memories; Diamond Park, Foothill Blvd., 7th Street...
I was born in 1950 so I was in my prime for the whole thing. Yeah I was Oakland...went to Vietnam to chill out.
circle43cm 3 years ago 2
Rector's death was sad and disturbing, and there was a lot of tension surrounding the People's Park confrontation. Beyond that, life seemed like it was being written day-by-day and being involved in the struggle in Berkeley was both exciting and frightening at the same time. These images bring back real memories for me, thanks for the post.
zen99 3 years ago 3
I was there.
GHLIII 4 years ago
My father was one of those protesters, trapped in a square, teargassed, and shot at with shotguns. Ronald Reagan was a false symbol of American power and one of the worst governors and presidents our country has ever had.
leftyguitarman27 4 years ago 3
fuck them brainwashed troops
and fuck them zionist nazi reptilians and lucifierins that support the troops
what do troops do ? kill people
and kill them selfs 17.5 out of 100000 soldiers commit suicides
acoplypse is already started in the middle east
falkminuteman 4 years ago
where are people going to live in peace
DavidDaniel2008 4 years ago
I remembered getting the dvd from Netflix I found it very informative. I think people my age (25 and below) should take a long look at history. Maybe they'll think twice about joining the army or buying guns. When people going to live in peace with each other
DavidDaniel2008 4 years ago
He was right. They got People's Park back.
ottoskidoo 4 years ago
I have the DVD of Berkley in the 60's and I did not know who Mario Savio was and until I looked on line and realized that my parents went to Berkley and Sonoma State while he was as a student and a professor at those colleges.
compaqowner 4 years ago
Savio was a great man. Go check out his famous speech here on youtube under his name.
ottoskidoo 4 years ago
i just saw on this on tv and you gotta respect the 60s generations, this is almost 40 year later and we are far better but we still have some problems but the difference is ppl dont carea anymore (including myself)
npscholes 4 years ago
I don't think we have got any better since the 60's, and if you don't notice that, then you must be numb. I actually think somethings in this world have actually gotten worse in the past 40 years. But society has just gotten more dominated by the government so not as much peace has been commercial shown.
RCcarbuilder 4 years ago 2
I agree. I think most of the progressive developments were done by the depression era children. They fought the true battles and inspired the flower children. Look at your society today. Gen XandYs really have nothing to inspire them. This whole revolution is a tale of romance, the soul isn't there.
porche75 4 years ago
my grandpa was earlier in the firm too...it made me happy!
shantiapaz 4 years ago
Your standard of living was so good that you just felt like protesting,It anyone had the right to protest it was the ones in the soviet block,not some druged up bored american student with left wing tendencies,damn them all..and then they matured
SagaraGunso 4 years ago
American students were protesting the over reaching of government into every aspect of life. It has happened again with "Homeland Security". I would think that someone who has had to endure Soviet Bloc oppression would support, rather than critize their actions.
afireheart98 4 years ago
I live here! YAY!
britoca 4 years ago
Yes, this is Memorial Day '69. I was there throughout the Park war and remember when they rolled out the turf.
GHLIII 4 years ago
Yeah, me too. Soon after, maybe six months if I recall correctly, Reaguns was straffing the campus with teargas.
zen99 3 years ago
the band - "the weight" off of the album Big Pink
everlastingpmpkn 4 years ago
I saw my grandfather in there :)
MadeInBerkeley 4 years ago
When You Sit Out There And Hitch-Hike, In The Front Seat There The Parents. And They Kinda Give You This Real Scared, Contemptuous Look As They Drive By You. But Then In The Back Seat, As They're Going Away, You See All The Kids And They're Going...
** Waves Arms **
PRICELESSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DamienBoy13 4 years ago
thanks for posting this. i was hoping to find someone has posted the whole video on youtube. i love that documentary!
pennilesscripple 4 years ago
my dad was telling me how he used to go to these protest.. had to come look it up... i have to say it seems like a very powerful thing to take place in.
what song is this?
dazedANDtruckin 4 years ago
the band - "the weight" off of the album Big Pink
everlastingpmpkn 4 years ago
This looks like footage from the Memorial Day, 1969, march to the park, rather than scenes from the confrontations that began with the University of California's decision to fence the park.
cno711 5 years ago