The Letter W is for Waterloo
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I had to cycle prettty damn quick to get from Trafalger Sq, scene of a huge anti-Bush demo to view a film about the failure of political protest to achieve ends. There's a lesson in all this somewhere.
Weather Underground, The
[Sam Green and Bill Siegel, 93'], 21Nov03'Never trust anyone over thirty' Abbie Hoffmann
By the end of the 1960's political activism in the US had turned sour. The beautiful future that had been promised to a culture weaned on conciousness expanding chemical insight had become a series of dark trips that spiralled into the killing of a fan by Hells Angels 'security' at the Altamount Festival and then the Manson murders. The brutality of US involvement in SE Asia had became visible with mainstream media representing the ferocity of the My Lai massacre and the horrific signifier of that little Vietnamese girl covered in napalm. And then America got Nixon.
The nascent student Left in America, raised on the privelege and affluence of a commodity orientated culture in the Fifties now questioned the hypocrisy of the imperium: its 'for honky home consumption only' (what a wonderful word honky is, perhaps its time for us bourgeoois white liberals to reclaim it for ourselves) morality desperately at odds with its foreign policy. The idealism of the Left had suddenly to understand the true nature of Realpolitick. As their engagement with the Empire seemed increasingly unimportant so the more vocal and rebellious
Named from Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues
The 1969 Days of Rage marked a serious turning point in whitey's radical political action. Seeking alliance with Black political avtivists during teh intervenig years, teh
see Acid Dreams for an excelletna ccount of the time sas they were changing
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