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Helsinki demonstration against the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The Eastern Bloc had already seen several mass protests in the decades following World War II, including the Hungarian Revolution, the uprising in East Germany and several labor strikes in Poland, especially important ones in Poznań in 1956.
Protest against the Vietnam War in Amsterdam in April 1968. Protests against the Vietnam War took place in the 1960s and 1970s. The protests were part of a movement in opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War. The majority of the protests were in the United States, but some took place around the world.
Groups such as the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign organised mass demonstrations against the Vietnam War and British support for American military action. [4] Demonstrations were held outside the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square on March 17th and October 27th 1968, drawing thousands of protestors and culminating in violent clashes with the police.
Columbia University’s graduating class of 1968 was no stranger to protests. The college years of its student body were marked by the anti-Vietnam War movement and the fight for civil rights.
An anti-Vietnam War protest in Helsinki, Finland, in December 1967 Protest against the Vietnam War in Amsterdam, April 1968. In February 1967, The New York Review of Books published "The Responsibility of Intellectuals," an essay by Noam Chomsky, a leading intellectual opponent of the war.
[3]: 40 The Presidio 27 sit-down protest on October 14, 1968. The Presidio mutiny, Oct. 14, 1968, 27 prisoners at the Presidio stockade in San Francisco sat down and refused to move in protest of horrible conditions, the murder of a fellow inmate and the war. The protesters were all charged with mutiny, which carries a potential death penalty ...
Students marched against a Vietnam War that was killing 50 Americans every day, and for long-overdue civil rights, equality and justice. On the other hand, the leading presidential candidate was ...
Not to be confused with Students for a Democratic Society. The Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) was an undercover unit of Greater London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS or the Met), set up in 1968 with the approval of the Wilson government, to infiltrate British protest groups. It was part of the Special Branch, and worked closely with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). It operated from ...