PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
HIPPIES AND THE COUNTERCULTURE
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the SDS focused more on drug-use and communal arrangements
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the SDS rejected political involvement and protest
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the free speech movement did not focus on specific political issues
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the free speech movement did not achieve its goals
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Detailed explanation-1: -Students insisted that the university administration lift the ban of on-campus political activities and acknowledge the students’ right to free speech and academic freedom. The Free Speech Movement was influenced by the New Left, and was also related to the Civil Rights Movement and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a college campus phenomenon inspired first by the struggle for civil rights and later fueled by opposition to the Vietnam War. The Free Speech Movement began in 1964, when students at the University of California, Berkeley protested a ban on on-campus political activities.
Detailed explanation-3: -The contemporary SDS is a distinct youth and student-led organization with chapters across the United States. To build a fighting student movement against US wars and intervention, racist discrimination, police crimes, homophobic and transphobic attacks, attacks on women, attacks on reproductive rights, and more.
Detailed explanation-4: -Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a national student activist organization in the United States during the 1960s, and was one of the principal representations of the New Left.