Probably most of you knows what happened in many western Countries during the 1968, and how deeply that impacted life, culture and politics in the following decades. If you are too young to know it - or you live in a Country absolutely untouched by those happenings - you can read it on Wikipedia.
(If you live in USA, then you could refer to what happened in 1967 in Philadelphia, or in 1968 at Columbia University, or in other protests of the students.)
The Sixties Protests
Of course, the 1968 was just the spike-year for the student protest, and History remember that year mostly - I think - for what happened in european universities. But student and young people protests happened along a decade, from the beginning of the '60s.
Whatever we think about that protests, they undoubtedly influenced our societies for a long period.
How much we know today about that period and the maybe utopic beliefs those young people had?
I'd like to read your impressions about it.
Do you have family tales, or some kind of knowledge you get from movies or novels about it? Personal knowledges, you know, not historical facts.
If you can, tell me what you know. Thanx!
images sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_of_1968 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1968_events_in_France#/media/File:1968-05_%C3%89v%C3%A8nements_de_mai_%C3%A0_Bordeaux_-_Rue_Paul-Bert_1.jpg
Paris, May 1968 is one of those once a century events where revolution strikes and seems to have a chance to change the existing order. These revolutionary times are magical and exciting and the feeling around them can last for years. I am an American expat/immigrant in the Czech Republic and of course November, 1989 was another major turning point. But when we think of 1968 it was also an important year in Czechoslovakia. One of the key events was Allen Ginsberg's visit to Prague and his crowning as Kral Majales, the King of May. This was one of the key moments where the West bled into the East and revolutionary hopes were kindled. He wrote a poem about the event while flying back to New York ... oops I see that was in 1965, not 1968 ,,, oh well close enough : )
When the Russians invaded Prague in August 1968 the dream was over here. The photographs by Josef Koudelka of the evnt are striking and worth seeing ...
I've been blogging about the 1960s on Steemit, maybe because it is 2018, this is the 50th anniversary ..
thx for your contribute :)
Was born five years later; but have heard and read so much about those times that they feel like they are a part of me. It was like a complete break in consciouness was happening; a paradigm shift in not just politics, but in reality itself. My dad saw a friend bend matter with his mind.
I feel as if the war, the violence against and from protestors and deaths of great men like Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King caused an upswelling of grief and a feeling a powerlessness that the young were fighting to reclaim. They never really did of course; but the world changed forever.
Thats true its really effected lot of peoples life.
Lots of Movement lead to change. :)
thanks for sharing.