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DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe Spirit of 1968\n\nFocusing on France and May of '68, and the new 
 sense of political being\nand presence that characterized people in the 
 U.S. during the next decade\n\nWith Steve Martinot\nPreceding the Occupy 
 Oakland General Assembly\n\n\n\n \n\nThe 1960s were an exciting time to 
 live through for those who could see what was happening, because they were 
 a time when, all over the world, people were coming together, organizing 
 themselves, and living their lives according to principles - principles of 
 opposition, of democracy, of cooperation, of justice, and of liberation 
 from the colonialisms of former centuries, both in the colonies and in the 
 colonialist countries. 1968 marked a node in this historical development, 
 in which huge events materialized and concretized movements as upsurges 
 that focused on contesting corporate colonialist and militarist 
 power.\n\nWe could list the Vietnamese Tet offensive that deconstructed US 
 strategies there, the strike in France that was the largest strike in 
 history, rebellions in black communities across the US in response to the 
 assassination of MLK, the formation of Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement 
 and other RUMs throughout the auto industry along with the first massive 
 strike in Lordstown, the student upsurges in the US that seized Columbia 
 Univ., SFSU, NYU, and others to stop the military’s braintrusts and make 
 education relevant, the civil rights movement in Ireland, the Cultural 
 Revolution in China that was at its populist high-point before being 
 organized into a vast sectarian campaign, Prague Spring, the massive 
 uprising in Mexico City during the Olympics (with solidarity from John 
 Carlos and Tommy Smith), and the beginning of that new form of 
 international anti-colonialist solidarity epitomized by groups of USians 
 working in Cuba and later organized as the Venceremos Brigades.\n\nAll 
 these events had profound influence on the thinking of the world’s 
 people, leading almost to an inability of the power elites of the corporate 
 world to govern in the old way. Socialist and socializing ideologies became 
 general ways of thinking, the difference between party politics and 
 people’s politics thrust parties aside, and movements teaching people how 
 to establish political and cultural autonomy as a source of real political 
 strength and not of division took hold for the next ten years.\n\nSteve 
 Martinot has been a union and community organizer, lecturer at the Center 
 for Interdisciplinary Programs at SFSU, and written extensively on the 
 structure of racism and white supremacy in the US, as well as on corporate 
 economics and culture.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/04/25/18808747.php
SUMMARY:The Spirit of 1968
LOCATION:Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater\n500 14th St., Oakland, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/04/25/18808747.php
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