Why Did Columbia University Students Protest in 1968? | History
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Learn how the Vietnam War and the construction of a gym on campus prompted Columbia University student groups to protest the administration in 1968. See how their numbers swelled into the thousands and inspired student protests all over the country.
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Crazy why didn’t this didn’t it happened in 2021?
good video, but lose the music
From what I’ve read and seen the SDS never showered, never used deodorant, never brushed their teeth.
Totally gross 🤢 😷
How creepy her smile is as she talks about the riot’s growth…
The photo at 3:37 is not of protestors but counter-protestors – the jocks, the young Republicans, etc – who brawled with the protestors and activists, and who were a pretty important element in how things played out over April & May. It’s too bad this dimension isn’t explored, as their contribution to the mayhem ought not to be forgotten. One of their leaders was Bill Barr, who figures importantly in two later instances of American public mayhem.
Turn the music off
My dad was at this event with his aunt when this happened
God dame boomers! Hippie traitor. Love communists so much? Go live in North Korea, stupid hippie boomers!
Who is here now after Israel’s genocide campaign and America’s Military and Economic Support and Columbia’s Protests end in arrests.
And today’s Columbia students are protesting for Palestine ❤🍉✊
Almost 60 years later, the government still sucks and is still supporting genocide abroad. Never stop, my fellow students; the revolution never stopped.
Relevant now. FREE PALESTINE
And now the Columbia students protest against the Israel threat to Palestine.
2024
But today’s protests are arrested and suspended from their universities
HUMAN LIBERTIEZ RIGHTS
WHY BILLY CLUBS LIKE WERE STILL CAVE MEN FORCE OF WHO AUTHORITY
Defy the police defy the government. Let them arrest but don’t bow down and continue the protests
always fight for civilian lives
History repeats itself
History repeats itself
We hope
A time when students weren’t chanting te-ist threats.
Columbia university prides itself on raising heathens.
This is just HISTORY repeat itself 56 years later.
Big difference in how they protest back then and now. Think of all the kids who worked and put themselves thru school.…their graduation is ruined.…these are also the same group that did not have high school proms because of covid. I know that the tragoc things being done in Palestine does not compare.…i am simply saying protest at the United Nations …they can do something… protest at the white house but do it legally and with respect. ALL LIFE MATTERS…EVERYONE HAS A RIGHT TO BE FREE AND PRACTICE THEIR RELIGION AS THEY WISH
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We were proud of our young people then and we are proud of the young people now 💪 Thank you for begin on the right side of the history!
Aug. 30, 2024 what have we learned?
Where’s Neil Young when you need him? We need an Ohio 2.0 song for the 21st century called Columbia, or maybe just NYC. 😏
It’s so eerie how many parallels there are to what’s happening now. History really does rhyme.
4:02 even the EXACT date that the police raided the campus buildings. April 30th. Wow.
April 30, 2024
kids today being wanna-be revolutionaries but ending up in a hateful cult
Viva Palestina ❤
“law + order= racism” reads one sign. Good god, silliness is eternal.
❤ 🇮🇱
The leader of this protest Mark Rudd was also a member of the Marxist terrorists organization the Weather Underground
it proves that students are always the leaders who fight for justice
they may be treated harshly but eventually they earn the respect and this time worldwide as palestine occupation by the zionests is the longest in history
thank you colombn students
History is repeating itself in 2024
They had just cause, this was not history repeating itself. The hooligans at Columbia now aren’t even students, just randoms who showed up to riot.
Boomers and Zoomers are the same !
These protestors carried American flags & we’re far more respectful 🙏 versus today’s students & people pretending to be student’s
She puts her hands together poorly
Normality vs abnormality
Time is a flat circle and humanity is barely worthy of leaving the zoo.
The Year was 2024.…
It’s like if the student protests in the summer of love were about * Vietnamese people and how good that is. If they can even drop Lucy in that environment they’re just really f’d up
In 1968, The Columbia University Protestors were singing- “All We are asking is to give Peace a Chance.”
In 2024, the Lyrics to the Song are a little different. Now- they are Singing= “All We are Asking is To KIll All the Jews.”
Middleclass kids who are brainwashed by 60s idealism in the 80s the forget their values and turned to neoliberalism.
Why should a private school allow non-students , non-faculty to use their facilities??
They helped elect Richard Nixon as the mainstream was fed up and didn’t agree. Go Trump 2024.