1968 REBELLION

Pasolini a Venezia nel 1968 (foto Biennale ASAC ) As a life-long Communist Party of Italy (PCI) member, Pasolini's Marxist positions politically may have been farther left than the student movement of the 1960s. However, in his poem called "The PCI to the young generation" [Il PCI ai giovani], he appeared to criticize the protestors and side with the police in the lines: When yesterday at Valle Guilia you came to blows with the policemen I sympathized with the policemen! Because the policemen are the children of the poor However, in other examinations of the poem, it is not believable that Pasolini sided with the right-wing or the police actions themselves... he seemed to be making note of the self-contradictory nature of the current struggle, which featured the students: You have daddy’s boy faces You were born with silver spoons in your mouths. However Pasolini is also fairly clear: We obviously are in agreement against the police instit

The “Battle on Tegeler Way” [Schlacht am Tegeler Weg] was a violent confrontation between the police and demonstrators. The demonstrators were mainly connected with the SDS [Students for Democratic Society] and the APO [Anti-Parliamentary Opposition], who had called for a protest on November 4, 1968 at Tegeler Way in Berlin-Charlottenburg. In addition to students, many workers and rockers were been among the demonstrators. This street battle is considered a major turning point in the history of the APO in the '68 movement and went down in the history of the political left in Germany. At the Battle of Tegeler Weg 130 police officers and 22 demonstrators were seriously injured. Sources: Schlacht am Tegeler Weg Wikipedia The long and winding May of 1968 (6): German student movement by Julius Gavroche, April 3, 2018 Schlacht am Tegeler Weg (NDR, 1988), Youtube Video

Student Takeover at Howard University Turns the Tables of History

During the occupation of the Administration Building. The first major take-over of a college campus in 1968 took place not at Columbia University, but actually at Howard University, the mainly African-American campus located in Washington, D.C. The four-day takeover of the Administration Building, which ultimately led to the shutdown of the school, took place March 19 through March 23, 1968, and was a response to the university’s threats to expel nearly 40 students accused of disrupting the Charter Day Convocation that took place on March 1st, 1968. On that day, students who had been mounting a series of protests to demand the resignations of the University President Nasbrit and a more African-American curriculum, jumped the stage while Nasbrit was handing out honorary degrees. As a result, the event was shut down and 39 students were made subject to disciplinary hearings. The disruption of the Charter Day event was related to the previous year on March 21st 1967, when stu

Mary McCarthy Goes to Hanoi, North Vietnam

Mary McCarthy. James Mossman (BBC) interviewed Mary McCarthy about Vietnam for The Listener (1968): JM: Could you tell me, Mary McCarthy, what is your fundamental objection to your country's involvement in Vietnam? The application of a technology and a superior power to a political situation that will not yield to this. JM: That means you are accusing your people of stupidity and not wickedness. I think they are wicked too, but sometimes those things seem to be somewhat equivalent. JM: Why do you think they are wicked? The absolute indifference to the cost in human lives of the pursuit of US foreign policy - that I consider wicked. JM: I gather that your name is absolute mud out there and CIA men actually spit when your name is mentioned. I am delighted to hear it. I didn't think I had made so much of an impression. Sources: Hanoi - 1968, Mary McCarthy. New York Review of Books. CIA Men Spit When Your Name Is Me

James Baldwin Interview in Esquire, July 1968

Esquire asks Baldwin: How can we get the black people to cool it? JAMES BALDWIN: It is not for us to cool it. ESQ: But aren't you the ones who are getting hurt the most? JAMES BALDWIN: No, we are only the ones who are dying fastest. Sources: James Baldwin: How to to Cool It , Esquire

Poor People's March On Washington

Poor People's March at Lafayette Park and on Connecticut Avenue, Washington, D.C.. Photo: Wikipedia First organized by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, the Poor People's Campaign was re-organized after King's assassination, and took place in Washington D.C. The campaign included the erection of a protest encampment, called "Resurrection City," which eventually reached some 3,000 tents on the set up on the National Mall. Photo: National Park Service/Museum Resource Center An estimated 7000 to 8000 people turned out for the March and rally on June 19th, a much smaller figure than King had planned for. This may have been influenced not only by King's death, but by the 20,000 troops on-hand to suppress any action that the government disapproved of. Sources: Resurrection City, an Overlooked Protest of the 1960s Turns 50 , by Rick Massimo, WTOP (18 May 2018) Wikipedia

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