I New Left A Mostly young people interested in engaging in politics to change the world around them 1 Mostly white well educated middle class students 2 Rejecting parents complacency 3 Want to help the underprivileged 4 Never trust anyone over 30 a Youth movement was more pure and idealistic B SDS Students for a Democratic Society 1 Very active on college campuses 2 Becomes face of the New Left movement 3 Port Heuron Statement gather and talk about rights for society manifesto of what they believe a Disturbing paradoxes we say we re the most abundant country on earth and yet millions of people live in poverty b Call for participatory democracy want more involvement by average Americans in politics 4 In loco parentis University acting as students parents without parents 5 Question whether or not the war Vietnam is being waged for things they believe in 6 First Anti War protest 50 000 people show up 7 Want to fix the system this is where New Left CC differ II Counter Culture A Not interested in fixing the existing system 1 It s too broken corrupted we need to start a new system entirely B Want to change people s mindsets D Looked different on purpose bell bottoms tie dye long hair E Some of them start communes build farms live their politics 1 San Francisco California Summer of Love C Believe in a lot of the same things as the New Left but have extremely different ways of approaching it 2 Human Be in people being together is going to create love positivity affect the whole world F Used drugs weed acid LSD to change your perception of the world around you 1 Berkely professor tests LSD on students and faculty and believes this is the way of the future 2 Tries to get LSD put into water systems around the country obviously this doesn t pass
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