RE: Twenty Flight Rock

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Mon, 2008-05-12 08:21

Topic posted in response to Twenty Flight. I would like to know how some people feel about war. How come there was so much protest in that era against the Vietnam war and yet so little now with regard the middle - east. What as changed?

Mon, 2008-05-12 10:31

tcook

I protested against both wars and continue to do so. Youth culture has changed a great deal - there are no longer the mechanisms to promote change through street action (possibly because they were seen to be not terribly effective). The internet does provide huge opportunities for easy protest - but that doesn't seem to do much either. I feel a lot better after walking around the streets of London with a banner and doing a lot of shouting.

Mon, 2008-05-12 13:11

bobblehat2023

There was quite a big protest against the War on Iraq.

Mon, 2008-05-12 13:35

blackjack-davey

I was at that rally by Cleopatra's Needle and the event was huge. It was played down in all the newspapers (compare it to the coverage from Italy). Veterans from the Miners' Strike with cries of Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, oi, oi oi! Muslims stopping in great flowing groups to pray off Whitehall, Jews against Zionism, Hawkwind supporters who sniffed the whiff of a free festival. This war was one regrettable slippery massage into futility, so soapily managed that we were spread out on the table, pacific, gurgling, helpless. I blame Biggus.

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