Chapter 4 of 8 - WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE?

Behind the Scenes and more info at:
http://www.FlowersTheMovie.com

There are a lot of things happening in and out of San Francisco. And sometimes it's hard to hear about everything that's going on, especially when you're trying to find protests to go to. So I took to going to a website called indybay.org. I recommend it, it's a good resource and they have it for many parts of the world.

One day there was a post saying that there was going to be a protest at the UC-Berkeley campus. For those not familiar with the bay area, Berkeley is about 45 minutes away from San Francisco.

I'll let the film tell the story, but as you can see we never found the protest that day. We're not quite sure why. Maybe they changed the date, and they forgot to take the post off the website? Maybe we couldn't find the right place on campus? Maybe nobody showed up? Whatever it was, we knew that what took place that day couldn't possibly speak for all of Berkeley, nor for the thousands of university students across The United States.

So we started talking to as many people as we could. Young and old.

Famously we talked to characters from the sixties like Peter Yarrow and Bobby Seale (well, almost) and the Raging Grannies of Santa Cruz, the angriest yet sweetest grammas you could ever hope to meet. But we also talked to many students and young activists. I have countless other colorful characters on tape; this is just supposed to serve as a small representation of the kinds of people that we encountered in our search for the spirit of the 60s.

We were especially taken aback to what young people were saying. We could tell that there was something about to happen to our generation, something big. We just didn't know what it was yet.

That's when another young person opened our eyes to another sixties theme...

http://www.myspace.com/flowersthemovie

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Where-Have-All-The-Flowers-Gone-The-Movie/18906...

http://digg.com/movies/Where_have_all_the_Flowers_Gone_Politics_meets_rocknroll

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[beckybecky]

your doc is making me want to cry.

trust me, there are some of us out there who are angry. promise.

[TexanCyclist]

All it takes to change the world is the dedicated action of a committed few. If fact that is always how it happens. To paraphrase Margret Meade.

The draft or more specifically, the elimination of college & marriage deferments, is what tipped the anti-war movement into a national stage. Until then we were few, easily dismissed, & of many separate factions.

Seal learned the lesson too many did. Money rules this society.

[angelicnv420]

i know that school... cali is definately the place to find people thinking differently... you guys should have gone to the health and harmony festival... giant hippy festival... every summer in Santa Rosa CA... i have pics on myspace do you all have a page?