PROTESTS, ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT AND CIVIL

DISOBEDIENCEBy Jeff Murphy

Protests

Kent State – May 4, 1970

Protest Slogans

"Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids have you killed today?"

"One, two, three, four! We don't want your f*****g war!"

"Hell no, we won't go", "Make love, not war", "America, love it or leave it“ "America, change it or lose it“ "Eighteen today, dead tomorrow"

Famous Protesters

Abby Hoffman • Founded Youth

International Party or “Yippies”

• Forced underground by US government

Jane Fonda• Became known as “Hanoi

Jane” for visiting North Vietnam during war

Joan Baez• Wrote and sang many

popular protest songs

Timothy Leary• Writer

Allen Ginsberg• Poet/ writer

John Lennon• Former Beatle

Student Organizations and Civil Disobedience

Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) Student Liberation Movement (SLM)

- Civil Disobedience - the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government, or of an occupying power, without resorting to physical violence. It is one of the primary tactics of nonviolent resistance. Henry David Thoreau pioneered the modern theory behind this practice in his 1849 essay Civil Disobedience

- Colleges such as Kent State, Cal-Berkley, Louisiana State and Michigan became hotbeds of civil disobedience and protest movements.