Chapter 1 of 8 - WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE?

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Our Journey started August 28th 2006. The interviews that you see at the beginning of the movie took place at a vineyard near Austin, Texas the day before we left for San Francisco. You may remember that at that time, President Bush enjoyed a 42% approval rating and the Republican Party controlled the United States Congress. The hymn of change that seems to be in the air today didn't exist then. In fact, many people had become cynical to anything having to do with politics.

It was a dark period, but what we found fascinating, even at that time, was that while other segments of the population seemed to be trapped in a political funk, young people seemed poised to start something new, something extraordinary. Perhaps something like what happened in the sixties. And we wanted to be in the midst of it.

We decided to try to recapture the spirit of the sixties. You see, the only way us young folk can experience the sixties now is by listening to nostalgic tales from our parents (or friends of our parents), by reading in between the lines of our history books, or by getting a hold of those old recordings of MLK and/or activist artists like John Lennon. So the idea of finding that spirit in our own lives today sounded wild, mischievous, and like bells of revolution to our ears.

We traveled from the University of Texas at Austin to Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco in just 36 hours. We had no money so a friend who worked at a moving company schemed to get us a truck for free. The only thing we had to pay for was gas. Don't ask me how he managed to get us the deal; we're still a little confused about the whole thing ourselves. Gas was at 3.099, which - at the time - seemed like death. If you look closely at the part when we are at a gas station, you can see the price. Boy if we could fill up our tanks at that price now, huh!

Before we knew it we had arrived at the most innovative bastion of liberalism of the 1960s. Revolution was in the air and our spirits were high. But things were about to change...

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[edenjon]

I grew up in the 1960''s and enjoyed this other generational perspective on that period.

A home made road video download and engaging. Hope you guys really enjoyed the journey . Theres a famous phrase  'the past is another country ''

[stanleyman320]

That sandwich looks delicious =D

[1888junkteam]

excellent work!

[HFRESHTILLDEATHH]

yeah yeahh

[barbaralee15]

Goood film. What happened to us? I feel my generation (I was very very involved in the 60's) let you all down. We had our ideals stolen from us by forces beyond our control. Yes we had great leaders, but they were assassinated. Our drive, as the largest group for change, was killed by CIA experimentation with drugs. Much of feminism is based on Commie idealism. We were betrayed and too naive ~ fell into the rabbit hole. My peers sold out in the end. I am so sorry!

[PeaceProfit]

Every*Flower, starts from a seed, germinating underground, feeding off the decay, warmth, wisdom and L.O.V.E. of the past, yet before this process can began, each seed must be dislodged from the comfort and beauty of its parents cradle, then and only then does the individual rise*above its surrounding, to blossom a fresh, new day upon the awaiting horizon of a future carefully nurtured by all the hope and grace which carried itself forward, within our struggle for truth.

((((Critical*Mass))))

[clattybrown]

Fantastic my friend

5stars deserves a night sky full

[Norm50cal]

No they weren't but the Democrats felt it be just fine to get mixed up in things that had nothing to do with America until the Japs bombed pearl Harbor that is. Warmongering is going to war for something we had nothing to do with. Now we have terrorism that is Global. Preemptive wars is the only defense from Bio/Chemical and Nuclear Armageddon .

[Starguy93]

The funny thing about those three first examples are that the United States weren't the ones who made the first strike. So... go figure.

[DukeLaCrosse20]

Its a good thing that era is lost. Actually, the loser hippies of the 60's are now the dimocrat leadership.