SECTION SIX: LIFE STYLE

 
 
WTO Protest Has Links With The Past.........
Recent events in Seattle have led some to look back to 
times gone by for answers. Answers are hard to find in 
this situation, a situation where hundreds of peaceful 
protesters with support from the president were treated 
horrifically by the Seattle Police and the other battalions 
that were brought in. As police used more and more brute 
force in Seattle, protesters began chanting "The whole 
world is watching!" in reference to the numerous television
and video cameras about. Nary a soul out there knew the 
roots of their chant. 

The first time that chant was used was in downtown Chicago 
in 1968. The situation was much the same. There was a large 
organized event, in this case the Democratic National 
Convention, and a larger underground event was created 
around it in the city streets by the radical left, mostly 
youth, from all across America. Radicals such as David 
Dillinger and Tom Hayden were in attendance, as well as 
Allen Ginsbergh and the Zippies and whatnot. In both cases 
the protester's demands were varied but almost all protest 
was peaceful, and in both cases the police brutalized them. 
"The whole world is watching!" was a spontaneous chant that 
got going at one of the peaks of violence in Chicago, where 
huge Chicago Police were grabbing anybody they could and 
beating them senseless. I've seen a bit of the footage of 
it that the whole world was watching and I can tell you, it 
looked like a war with only one side fighting. 

Who started the parallel chant in Washington, I don't know,
but it certainly was a poignant statement, and one that 
deserves looking into. How are we different from how we were 
then, as a country? I think some people believed that the 
press coverage of the 1968 convention would put an end to 
such abuses of power. It may have had some effect to that 
end, but obviously incompletely. My sister was in Seattle 
protesting, and I would've been too, if I hadn't gotten a 
false snowstorm report a few days prior. There are questions 
I have about the morality of protesting in the street and 
holding up traffic and such, but beyond any of that, how 
can these cops get away with beating up America's children? 
I pray that this time around, with times changed and the 
Baby Boomers in more positions of power, there will be even 
more public outrage and productive thought. 

In the case of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, I 
think it's fairly well agreed upon that much of the violence 
had roots in class struggle. The cops, for the most part, 
were young men without much economic prospect in life, without
much exposure to the intellectual and political worlds. The 
protesters were generally middle class to upper middle class
youths, who were generally in college or had graduated from 
college or had dropped out of college. These were people who 
had the bourgeois world at their fingertips, but chose to 
look beyond it. These cops had little trouble developing a 
terrible hatred of the protesters, hippy types that they were.
What created that predisposition to hatred is not entirely 
clear, but it seems to fit in with the atrocities in Seattle. 
Until we solve problems like these, I won't have the heart to 
tell anarchists that this system is good and just or that 
they're wrong in tearing it down. And that is something I'd 
very much like the ability to say.

By Rowan Millar
Rowan is a Gen Y'er living in Silicon Valley. He has a 
personal interest in history of the 60's and Boomers 
Generation. Rowan will be writing articles for us and 
representing the voice of Generation Y on Boomers 
International Web Site.
   


 
 SECTION SEVEN: BOOMER OF THE MONTH
  
DECEMBER 1999
   
BOOMER OF THE MONTH   


- Barbara Pfrommer.



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with Blonde Hair (Born with Blonde hair up 
until 13-years old), and live in Branford, CT 

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