Although the traditional things associated with the hippies were present at this event it really did have a deeper and more important goal to bring together the political activists against the Vietnam War that were located at Berkley and the hippies which were not very interested in the politics. ... "5 The music of the sixties was a way for people to get their feelings out about their disgust of the war in Vietnam and the social norms of America at the time. ... Both the people of the counterculture and the students of Berkley were both a very large part of the anti-war movement. ... The...

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Throughout the history of Australia there have been a number of social movements and civil uprisings which have included: the McCarthy movement (1950s), Trade unionism (1950s), the movement against 54B and the Vietnam War (1960s), anti-war protests, anti-corporate globalisation, and ecological and green movements (Burgmann, 1993). ... Although this may be what many Australians would like to believe there is another history beginning to be told, that the Indigenous people of Australia tried in vain to keep control of their land and culture (Brisbane, n.d.). ... For example the anti-war ...

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Beginning as a student protest in a Parisian suburb, Nanterre,quickly spread to a general strike involving millions of French workers that temporarily paralysed the French economy. ... First of all, in terms of scale May 68 was the largest mass movement in France history, the French workers' movement, and the only general insurrection the overdeveloped world has known since World War II(Ross 4) There has never been a strike as powerful as May 68 that can be compared. ... It is the occurrence of May 68 is part of wave of the world-wide phenomenon which in part revolved around the issue of ...

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