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Bluenorthwest

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61. No offense but your view is strictly mainstream straight male....Stonewall was 1969 and like the

Sat Jul 18, 2015, 09:41 AM

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women's movement, born out of the larger 60's movements and separated from the larger movement because the straight white men in charge of the larger movement would not share power.

So the entire LGBT rights movement came out of the 60's.

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What we need is a new hippie-like counterculture movement! [View all] Emelina Jul 2015 OP

You're going to have to tear an awful lot of people bvf Jul 2015 #1

We had one with occupy but they were rainy Jul 2015 #2

In a sense, but I mean a movement that combines self-sufficiency with social responsibility. Emelina Jul 2015 #4

Occupy romanic Jul 2015 #45

Really? Sanity Claws Jul 2015 #46

I never denied that. romanic Jul 2015 #49

there were issues with Woodstock too DonCoquixote Jul 2015 #60

It would be great! n/t RKP5637 Jul 2015 #3

Step one - buy local as much as possible, step 2 go organic, step 3 turn off the TV. Emelina Jul 2015 #5

It can be done. This is the latest bounty from my gardens and my free range chickens. cwydro Jul 2015 #14

Step one is turn off the TV, I think. hunter Jul 2015 #32

Except NobodyHere Jul 2015 #36

IF anyone spotted ME, *they* would be arrested for trespassing... Ghost in the Machine Jul 2015 #69

Skyclad ceremonies are better than TV addiction. ;) Emelina Jul 2015 #72

Are you saying the hippie movement brought awareness to sustainability? brooklynite Jul 2015 #6

There are still co-ops and farmer's markets where I live... Emelina Jul 2015 #7

That would be a very jaundiced view. Comrade Grumpy Jul 2015 #24

My point is they withdrew from the world around them, rather than try to improve it for everyone brooklynite Jul 2015 #27

Sometimes the best way to help Sanity Claws Jul 2015 #47

Gandhi: "Be the change you wish to see in the world." GreatGazoo Jul 2015 #48

What "WITHDRAW" just us Jul 2015 #52

The movement was a mixed bag. kenfrequed Jul 2015 #28

More like trying to save the dying planet that rich capitalist imperialists Zorra Jul 2015 #33

No. You can't change the world by simply reusing parts of your past. Nostalgia is not a weapon. randome Jul 2015 #8

I cringe every time I see something about "hippies" sufrommich Jul 2015 #9

Moreover it actually encourages the wrong things kenfrequed Jul 2015 #29

"No" is a little broad-brush. bigmonkey Jul 2015 #20

"Thought and engagement". randome Jul 2015 #35

No offense but your view is strictly mainstream straight male....Stonewall was 1969 and like the Bluenorthwest Jul 2015 #61

"Nostaglia" may Not be fredamae Jul 2015 #56

What is interesting about the 1960s is the development of the Group Mind through the use of Hestia Jul 2015 #10

Wasn't the CIA involved in mainstreaming LSD? Emelina Jul 2015 #12

Check out the new book "Acid Hype" for who mainstreamed LSD. It wasn't the CIA. Comrade Grumpy Jul 2015 #25

I don't think group mind-level consciousness works like that. Warren DeMontague Jul 2015 #50

Michael Cross from Unlock the Door Radio? Seriously, he and others like him is why the counter Monk06 Jul 2015 #11

Abbie Hoffman died swallowing 150 phenobarbital tablets and liquor. former9thward Jul 2015 #30

He was manic depressive so I cut him some slack for that. Rubin is the one I really have no use for Monk06 Jul 2015 #42

Yeah the Yippies were a weird bunch. former9thward Jul 2015 #44

Those on the leftmost end of the spectrum are generally correct, just ahead of their time. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jul 2015 #13

The original movement died out because Starry Messenger Jul 2015 #15

What I said - co-opted and sabotaged. Emelina Jul 2015 #16

Yeah, but they gave us Richard Nixon NT 1939 Jul 2015 #17

How so? n/t fredamae Jul 2015 #59

Because 1939 Jul 2015 #64

Well, 1968 fredamae Jul 2015 #65

Yay old stuff! Boo new things!! Codeine Jul 2015 #18

As an aging hippie randr Jul 2015 #57

Only thing worse than a slide show on YouTube, is a single slide snooper2 Jul 2015 #19

tl;dw FrodosPet Jul 2015 #22

what we have running the world now are people who hated hippies olddots Jul 2015 #21

Hey man, the parking lot scene is too commercialized now Capt. Obvious Jul 2015 #23

No. You had your time. It is now someone else's time. jeff47 Jul 2015 #26

Well said. Codeine Jul 2015 #37

Re-birth? KamaAina Jul 2015 #31

I think the late 60s-early 70s counterculture in genreal was too individualized and cemaphonic Jul 2015 #34

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens Tierra_y_Libertad Jul 2015 #38

Freedom is key! Emelina Jul 2015 #43

This thread has many posts that echo the conservative hippie haters who Zorra Jul 2015 #39

And yet those conservatives have adopted many hippie ideas such as... Emelina Jul 2015 #70

we had occupy wall street Liberal_in_LA Jul 2015 #40

yes, because hippies got nothing but respect and quick response from government librechik Jul 2015 #41

Didn't most hippies from the 60s and 70s romanic Jul 2015 #51

No and yes randr Jul 2015 #54

"The world is a kaleidoscopic myth generator" sufrommich Jul 2015 #55

Um.. have you seen the scoreboard recently? GreatGazoo Jul 2015 #53

Young people, particularly college students, played a primary role in creating tension Zorra Jul 2015 #66

Pot is legal? tabasco Jul 2015 #71

You forgot to mention how there are no protest songs like there were in the good old days (nt) TacoD Jul 2015 #58

Ha! Codeine Jul 2015 #62

Agreed! CanSocDem Jul 2015 #63

Lovely video... PassingFair Jul 2015 #73

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Should have been at the Dead shows! Hippies had the moral authority. War is wrong, etc.. grahamhgreen Jul 2015 #68