tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301855515376548538.post8534330767652638715..comments2023-04-08T09:50:15.676-04:00Comments on MoonRaven's Social Alchemy Blog: USH23: Social Movements in the SeventiesMoonRavenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03010194761440202586noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301855515376548538.post-84541813373343437932009-05-13T09:29:00.000-04:002009-05-13T09:29:00.000-04:00Thanks for adding your comments. I agree about th...Thanks for adding your comments. I agree about the pet causes--certainly more joining together might have made a difference. The government and 'the system' (which includes the corporate world) wanted to keep us divided.<br /><br />That said, I can't agree with your final quote. I think the bombs hurt our cause--and played right into the government's attempts to discredit us.MoonRavenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03010194761440202586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301855515376548538.post-89775636130298839022009-05-13T06:30:00.000-04:002009-05-13T06:30:00.000-04:00Thanks Moon for the memories,as one who was there,...Thanks Moon for the memories,as one who was there,it is a very accurate article.<br /> The quote about the response of the Government is accurate also.<br /> It fact,I am afraid they did such a good job,there is little hope for Americans now.<br /> Maybe it was our fault,we each of the era,had our pet causes. We should all have joined when each cause was met. As a brother has said,"Maybe just one more bomb,would have done it."alabamaredhttp://oldweathermen.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301855515376548538.post-49069948507359147372009-04-08T21:10:00.000-04:002009-04-08T21:10:00.000-04:00Thank you, thank you. (blush) I'm so glad people ...Thank you, thank you. (blush) I'm so glad people are finding these posts on history useful. I got a bit carried away with all this stuff--more than I originally intended--and I just hope that there are some helpful bits in all this.<BR/><BR/>Shirley Chisholm seems to be getting quite a little fan club. I feel like I should learn more about her--at least someday...MoonRavenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03010194761440202586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301855515376548538.post-55189653943261230022009-04-07T21:52:00.000-04:002009-04-07T21:52:00.000-04:00Shirley Chisholm is my "Favorite Politician" in my...Shirley Chisholm is my "Favorite Politician" in my 1971 autograph album. LOL. I adored her and loved watching her speak. She was my new hero.<BR/><BR/>Thank you for these history articles. It's so good to see these things recounted, as most is ignored. I'm gonna send all my friends and family here to read about what really happened that nobody talks about. Blessings, MoonRaven. You are Absolutely Fabulous in my book.Austanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05568578637922817033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301855515376548538.post-86181070144893307702009-03-31T22:12:00.000-04:002009-03-31T22:12:00.000-04:00I appreciate your comments.That's an interesting s...I appreciate your comments.<BR/><BR/>That's an interesting statement from Shirley Chisolm. Thanks for sharing it. <BR/><BR/>As far as the anti-nuclear movement's origins--it may well have started before the seventies, but that was as early as I could trace it. Unfortunately, I may not have been as clear in this post as I meant to be but I was talking about the movement against nuclear *power*. (As I reread the post, I realized I didn't actually say that.)<BR/><BR/>The movement against nuclear weapons goes back to the fifties when groups like the Committee for Nonviolent Action used ships to try to enter nuclear testing areas in the Pacific. (See my post of 3/6/09.) The brilliance of the group Mobilization for Survival (as I pointed out early in this post) was to link nuclear power with nuclear weapons--something that I'm sure that the Union of Concerned Scientists also did.MoonRavenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03010194761440202586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301855515376548538.post-69131915021091016382009-03-31T20:41:00.000-04:002009-03-31T20:41:00.000-04:00Good posting. I just scanned it, but a few things...Good posting. I just scanned it, but a few things to comment on. I believe Shirley Chisolm, who was my State Assemblywoman back in the mid-60's, said that she found more difficulties in her life as a woman than as a black person. <BR/><BR/>The other is that I think the anti-nuke movement may have started before you said - I know that the Union of Concerned Scientists which started with an agenda focused on not using nuclear weapons, was started in 1969.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for all your good work.ethicalsusanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01988250195961287581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301855515376548538.post-40386517827110972122009-03-31T09:53:00.000-04:002009-03-31T09:53:00.000-04:00Thanks for your comment.Unfortunately, I wasn't pa...Thanks for your comment.<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, I wasn't part of much of this. I attended an anti-war rally or two and a gay pride parade or two and lived in a group house or two, but most of my involvement in the seventies was in the human potential movement. I was much more politically involved in the eighties than the seventies (or nineties, for that matter).<BR/><BR/>I sort of remember the Alcatraz occupation but I learned much more about it when we visited San Francisco some years back.<BR/><BR/>And much of this stuff, I didn't know about until I did the research.MoonRavenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03010194761440202586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5301855515376548538.post-46967996468460687192009-03-30T22:15:00.000-04:002009-03-30T22:15:00.000-04:00Wow, there was a lot going on while I was up here ...Wow, there was a lot going on while I was up here toddling around in the snow. Funny, I had never heard about that Alcatraz thing before.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your part in the work done back then.Jerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10354640729644229842noreply@blogger.com