1968 PROTEST MOVEMENT

1968 Protest Movement

1968 Protest Movement

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1968 protest is considered as one of the worldwide protest series, in which there was great participation of workers and students. Number of protests continued throughout the year including a large number of students. Worldwide for social change campuses became battle grounds (Ross, 2008, 104).

The year acts as a cipher for the student protests in the second half of the 1960s for the events that led up to them and to their enduring impact to this day. It marks one of the most emphatic turning points in post-War history. With the transformation of a student movement emerged in a suburban school in a spontaneous strike, students try to create a union with the workers. Youth was struggling to find its love in a society still shaped by traditional values. The greatest problems that have faced men throughout his history have been the problems of war and love (Twenge, 2006, 6).

Analysis

The slogan mention in the picture is an antiwar slogan which is commonly associated with the American Counterculture of 1968. This slogan was used by those who opposed the Vietnam War and fought for the students. Everyone knows “love time," and nearly everyone knows that "war is hell," but too many fail to know what "war time" is. To see with only one eye of love, or only one eye of war, is to lack depth of perception. People who believe that there is no justification for war called absolutists or Pacifists. They believe that the immorality of war cannot be challenged.

History tells us that there were wars, great or small, in every century, in every decade. Throughout the ages, from the Stone Age to the Atomic Age, men have been fighting, first with swords and shields, then with guns and cannons, and now, hydrogen ...