Sure. My son Bob was a full-time GI Coffeehouse activist near huge bases
after he was acquitted in the Oakland Seven Trial. Bill
monkerud wrote:
> Although I see Marty's point, and held a youthful contempt for those whom I
> considered conformist, I think Marty sees things too narrowly from his
> experience. People were attracted by what we were doing and joined us, we
> made allies in many places. We cannot be blamed for alienating those who
> disagreed with us; they were bound to hate us for what we represented
> anyway.
>
> One strong point would be to examine the GI movement. At first we degrade
> the GIs but that quickly changed as we turned to supporting them with a
> Bring the Troops Home focus. I recall talking to many GIs at Fort Hood
> Texas back then and feeling that we had much in common, and they displayed
> no hostility to us and what we were about. We were all in the same boat.
>
> best, Don
>
> At 10:04 AM -0700 10/6/00, William M Mandel wrote:
> > Marty:
> >Your initial post did not leave the impression that our net impact was
> >positive. That's why I responded as I did. I'm not even sure that your
> >examples of negative activities would stand up to careful examination.
> >Males doing physical labor today often wear beards. They most definitely
> >did not before the Sixties. They smoke pot, which they did not previously.
> >They largely turned to the music which the activists liked. They sure as
> >hell ate up Country Joe's, "Gimme an F--".
> > Bill Mandel
> >
> >Marty Jezer wrote:
> >
> > I don't quite understand the arugment here, Bill. I agree with you that
> >things are better today, at least in this country, in the areas of civil
> >rights, human rights, and issues of personal freedom (which is not to say
> >that they're great). But we, in the sixties, did do stuff that fueled the
> >backlash and, IMHO, made it a lot more severe than it needed to be.
> >
> >Marty Jezer
> >
> >
> >At 07:30 PM 10/4/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> >The fact remains that nothing won in the field of civil rights has been
> >lost, that gay rights are at this moment in better shape than ever before,
> >and that, considering all the multifarious criteria for measuring the
> >status of women, the same probably obtains there as well. Consider the
> >latest: the legalization of the at-home abortion pill.
> > This does not mean that cops don't engage in racial profiling. T
> >
> > Marty Jezer * 22 Prospect Street * Brattleboro, Vermont 05301Check out
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