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Crumbs from a revolutionary table.(1950s and 1960s demonstrations)

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| July 01, 2007 | Teichmann, Max | COPYRIGHT 2007 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

WATCHING THE RIOTERS demonstrating in Rostock against, as they say, globalism, multinationals, poverty, George W. Bush, global warming, Iraq and McDonald's--and that was just for starters--and learning that over a hundred German police were reported injured, twenty-five of them seriously, in one single demonstration, led me to reflect, yet again, upon demonstrations and the world of demonstrators, and what we did--or rather thought we were doing--in the course of our marches and demonstrations in the 1950s and 1960s.

I would like to believe that we were trying to accomplish real things and were aiming at more coherent, even realistic, goals, than appears to be ...

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