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	May 1968 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Students at the University of the Sorbonne in Paris met on 3 May to protest the closure and the threatened expulsion of several students at Nanterre.
		The next day they joined the students, teachers and increasing numbers of young workers who gathered at the Arc de Triomphe to demand that: (1) all criminal charges against arrested students be dropped, (2) the police leave the university, and (3) the authorities reopen Nanterre and the Sorbonne.
		The United States and German student movements were relatively isolated from the working class, but in Italy and in Argentina students and workers joined in efforts to create a radically different society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1968_student_riots (2524 words)

	phillipian.net \| the news from andover hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		These riots are reminiscent of the student riots that plagued France in 1968 and threatened to tear the French government apart.
		The greatest problem of the 1968 riots was that the rioters could not be categorized into any single group; the French government had succeeded in uniting their people across racial, economic, and political lines, a feat that is generally considered an accomplishment.
		This time, the riots have been both condemned, in the case of a Fatwa issued against the riots, and spurred on, in the case of some Islamic extremist groups that are calling for similar riots throughout Europe.
	www.phillipian.net /article.php?ID=1653 (633 words)

	French student riots : 1968
		The student revolution began with a protest against visitors of the opposite sex in dormitory rooms at a suburban Paris campus.
		The French are obsessed with the heady memories and legacy of 1968.
		One French reader believes that the student riots were the begunning of a real decline in French education.
	histclo.com /country/fran/co-fran1968.html (1136 words)

	diacritic \| art and culture: Poverty of Saigon Student Life
		Students do not have access to the equipment nor are there teachers at the school that can teach courses in video art.
		This preceded the 1968 student riots in Paris.
		Colorful bars and cafes with student artwork and musicians playing to lively groups of what appeared to be a much more rebellious and active student body.
	www.diacritic.org /blog/archives/2006/05/saigon_student.htm (732 words)

	1968 Washington, D.C. riots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The riots of April 4–8, 1968 devastated Washington, D.C. Washington, Chicago, and Baltimore were the cities most impacted by civil unrest in over 110 U.S. cities in the aftermath of the April 4 assassination of American Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King, Jr.
		At one point, on April 5th, rioting reached within two blocks of the White House before rioters retreated.
		Gilbert, Ben W. and the Staff of the Washington Post (1968) Ten Blocks from the White House, Anatomy of the Washington Riots of 1968.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1968_Washington,_DC_riots (623 words)

	Danielle Evans \| S&F Online - Zora Neale Hurston
		Students who have questioned this representation have in large part been kept out of the official conversation—written off as ill-informed activists who have romanticized the 1968 student riots and don't want to graduate without having locked themselves in a building.
		In fact, student and community activists challenging the official University line are refusing to romanticize Columbia's history or avoid the issue of gentrification.
		Unless student and community members continue to insist upon their inclusion, and the public release of information related to the expansion, it will benefit a limited few at the expense of the residents and employees of Manhattanville and the surrounding areas.
	www.barnard.edu /sfonline/hurston/evans_02.htm (850 words)

	The Student Movement and the Struggle for Democracy in the 1960s
		American students and young people in the 1950s did not challenge their government or society for fear that their lives and careers would be destroyed as a result of being called a communist.
		As some students said, we are becoming like a communist society, in which the government believes it knows what is best for its people and the people can't be trusted or allowed to challenge it.
		Students feared that the cost of protest could be death; they feared that the government would no longer allow democratic protest and challenge to its authority.
	www.colorado.edu /AmStudies/lewis/2010/students.htm (2404 words)

	ART FOR A CHANGE - Posters from the Paris 1968 Uprising
		On May 16th, art students, painters from outside the university, and striking workers decided to permanently occupy the art school in order to produce posters that would "Give concrete support to the great movement of the workers on strike who are occupying their factories in defiance of the Gaullist government."
		Since it was widely felt by striking students and workers that their paralyzing strikes should continue until the conservative government fell...
		Students and workers responded to police raids by tearing up cobblestone streets and building barricades to keep the authorities out of "liberated areas." Large parts of Paris fell under the temporary control of striking students and workers.
	www.art-for-a-change.com /Paris/paris.html (1235 words)

	AllPolitics - Democratic National Convention
		The 1968 Democratic Convention, held on August 26-29th, stands as an important event in the nation's political and cultural history.
		The primary cause of the demonstrations and the subsequent riots during the 1968 Chicago convention was opposition to the Vietnam War.
		The riots, which were widely covered by the media, led to a government funded study to determine the cause of the violence.
	www-cgi.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1996/conventions/chicago/facts/chicago68/index.shtml (2110 words)

	1968
		The site is designed to be useful to scholars and students, but also to provide a place where those who lived through the Sixties can tell their own stories about the era, meet others with common interests, and reflect on their experiences.
		An oral history of the events that shaped 1968 by students at Brown University.
		Visit The Whole World Was Watching, then conduct your own interviews; you could interview a veteran, a college student, a protester, a teacher, or anyone who recollects specific events of the year.
	www.42explore2.com /1968.htm (683 words)

	May 1968: France's month of revolution
		Using the excuse of a rumour that the right wing were going to attack the students meeting, the university authorities called in the police.
		On Thursday morning the announcement was made, but when students began to turn up for lectures they found the police and CRS still in residence.
		One school student was drowned in the Seine in the battle to end the Renault occupation at Flins, and two workers were shot dead at the Peugeot factory in Sochaux.
	www.marxist.com /1968/may68.html (2514 words)

	New Page
		It was only in the spring of 1968, with the election of a new slate of more outspoken officers, among them juniors Cicero Wilson and Ray Brown, joined by SIA graduate student Bill Sales, that SAS decided to become a more forceful and issues-driven presence on campus.
		Students of all ideological stripes concluded that the Administration was persisting in the strategy operative throughout the previous year, to "avoid confrontation at all costs." The effect of this inaction was to anger anti-protest students to the point where they talked openly of clearing the buildings themselves.
		And as long as their negotiators kept talking to the student occupiers and the Strike Committee, there seemed to be at least a possibility that the crisis could be resolved short of calling in the police, an action which some members of the AHFG predicted would prompt a violent response from Harlem.
	beatl.barnard.columbia.edu /cuhistory/archives/columbia68/McCaughey.htm (6463 words)

	Welcome to Routledge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Long before wild spring breaks, medieval students waged battles with bows and arrows at the earliest universities, while Russian students made assassination attempts against the tsars.
		The legacy of campus unrest continues at the cusp of the 21st century with a new wave of student rebellion at home and abroad.
		Drawing on major incidents of student activism, including Civil Rights protests in the US, the 1968 student riots in Paris, and Tiananmen Square, Boren shows that student resistance is a continually occurring and vital social phenomenon, world-wide.
	www.routledge-ny.com /shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?isbn=0415926238&CFID=16297&CFTOKEN=62223413 (211 words)

	TRANS Nr. 15: Plamen S. Tzvetkov (Sofia): The wall that fell down flat: Some political habits in southern europe before ...
		Thus the year 1968 marked a peak in student riots, inspired by basically leftist ideas, no matter whether they were directed against communism or against "capitalist imperialism".
		As it is well known, students were an extremely active element in the 1968 Prague Spring, whose leader, the reform-minded communist apparatchik Alexander Dubcek wanted to build "socialism with a human face".
		On April 11, 1968, an attempt to assassinate the leader of the Socialist Students' League Rudi Dutschke led to a series of strikes and clashes and even to the creation of "student and worker soviets".
	www.inst.at /trans/15Nr/05_07/tzvetkov15.htm (2560 words)

	Cinema-Scene.com: The Dreamers
		Paris, May 1968 -- Radicalism is alive and well, and the sleeping bourgeoisie hasn’t noticed the barbarians at the gate.
		While it is certainly a literate example of a filmmaker relating his own devotion to his art’s history, its self-import becomes overbearing by the film’s sixth hint at an orgiastic triangle, a homosexual tryst, or an incestuous romance.
		I took from the film a clear portrayal of dreamers whose womb-like lifestyle in a Paris apartment during the riots, but not the reverence for the movies or the politics or the dreams that make these people tick.
	xiibaro.hypermart.net /archive/06/2004/dreamers.html (607 words)

	Gulf Times â€“ Qatarâ€™s top-selling English daily newspaper - Europe/World
		French riot policemen surround a student outside the Sorbonne after storming the famous university where hundreds of students were holed up, early yesterday.
		Students had occupied the faculty, the centre of Franceâ€™s 1968 student riots, since Wednesday to protest against the youth jobs plan, which has sent conservative Prime Minister Dominique de Villepinâ€™s popularity tumbling.
		The 1968 unrest destabilised the government of president Charles de Gaulle and led to a sea-change in attitudes which contributed to his resignation a year later.
	www.gulf-times.com /site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=76440&version=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21 (1419 words)

	Decades History Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In Memphis a riot erupted during a protest march in support of striking sanitation workers led by Martin Luther King.
		In 1999 a civil trial jury in Memphis ruled that the 1968 killing of Rev. Martin Luther King was a conspiracy.
		Leftist students at Columbia University in New York City began a weeklong occupation of several campus buildings in protest over the Vietnam War.
	www.decades.com /ByDecade/1960-1969/67.htm (1059 words)

	French police break up student protest. 12/03/2006. ABC News Online
		French riot police have used tear gas to break up a three-day sit-in at Paris's Sorbonne University, stirring up memories of May 1968, as angry students warned of a mounting challenge to government labour reforms.
		Students had occupied the prestigious faculty, the centre of France's 1968 student riots, since Wednesday to protest against the youth jobs plan.
		Students are planned new demonstrations in central Paris later today.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200603/s1589501.htm (420 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 2 \| 1968: Student riots threaten Mexico Olympics
		Thousands of students had gathered for a meeting organised by the National Strike Council in La Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco to protest against the military occupation of the National Polytechnic Institute.
		The protesters, many of whom were women and children, had been planning to march through a working-class suburb of the city, but by early evening military personnel in armoured vehicles had surrounded the square.
		Amidst fears the riots would disrupt the Olympic Games the CIA had been monitoring the student actions in Mexico daily.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/2/newsid_3548000/3548680.stm (527 words)

	The Dreamers Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Set against the backdrop of the 1968 student riots, the friendship turns into a bizarre love triangle.
		This sexually explicit and intellectually shallow drama is set against the backdrop of the 1968 student riots in Paris, but for all the references to the era's mores and politics, The Dreamers takes place in a dramatic vacuum.
		Unfortunately, he only uses the Parisian riots of 1968 as mere backdrop to this superficial and dull melodrama.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=138859 (790 words)

	Timeline 1968 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The students were killed in a confrontation with highway patrolmen in Orangeburg, S.C., during a civil rights protest against a whites-only bowling alley.
		1968 Mar 17, In Vietnam during the siege of Khe Sanh, the longest and bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War, Manny Babbit was wounded.
		1968 J. Anthony Lukas (d.1997 at 64) won a Pulitzer Prize for his book "The Two Worlds of Linda Fitzpatrick." It was about a teenage girl from an affluent Connecticut family beaten to death with her hippie boyfriend after turning to a life of drugs in the East Village.
	timelines.ws /20thcent/1968.HTML (12688 words)

	Vangelis - Fais que ton rêve soit plus long que la nuit
		After threats of president De Gaulle to call for a state of emergency and to have the army involved, the national union of students in the end calls off all street activity to avoid further clashes.
		The Paris riots in May 1968 mark the start of a new time of social reforms in France.
		All this by and large applies to this example by Vangelis, where the "extra-musical events" are provided by the 1968 Paris student uprisings against the establishment.
	www.vangelismovements.com /faisquetonrevesoitpluslongquelanuit.htm (1268 words)

	The Dreamers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The tumultuous political landscape of Paris in 1968 serves as the backdrop for a tale about three young cineastes who are drawn together through their passion for film.
		Matthew, an American exchange student, pursuing his education abroad in Paris, becomes friends with a French brother and sister duo, named Theo and Isabelle, who share a common love of the cinema.
		During the May 1968 Paris student riots--which eventually shut down most of the French government--the three friends develop a relationship unlike anything Matthew has ever experienced, or will ever encounter again.
	www.indiana.edu /~frithome/news/events/dreamers.html (101 words)

	A History of German Rock Music
		Towards the end of 1968, Karrer decided to leave the commune and start a rock band, which was named Amon Duul II (21).
		Her first masterpiece, Marble Index (1968), introduced gothic, archaic, exotic and neo-classical elements into rock music, but it could not be farther from being sensationalistic: Nico sang about a childhood trauma, in the grip of lacerating loneliness, monotonous, slow, too weak to soar, too weak to add emotional or melodic value to her godless liturgy.
		A synthesis of techno and rock was achieved in Germany by Atari Teenage Riot (10), the project of Berlin's programmer and anarchist Alec Empire (Alexander Wilke) and two vocalists (Carl Crack and Hanin Elias).
	www.scaruffi.com /history/german.html (7887 words)

	.: Corvallis Gazette-Times :. Archives
		Although rioting persisted in some places for a 13th night, car burnings fell by nearly half and reports of violence dropped.
		Nonetheless, looters and vandals defied a state of emergency imposed by the government Tuesday, with attacks on superstores in northern France and a newspaper warehouse and a subway station in the south.
		The decree paved the way for possible curfews in Paris, the surrounding communities, and more than 30 other cities and towns nationwide if officials feel they are needed.
	www.gazettetimes.com /articles/2005/11/10/news/nation/thunat03.txt (396 words)

	dreamers
		The Dreamers is played against the backdrop of the 1968 student riots in Paris (with obviously staged street scenes rather than shooting for authenticity).
		Theo is suddenly energized to rejoin the revolution and hurls a Molotov cocktail at the riot police; while Matthew cowers over the need for demonstrations and defends America's Vietnam War even though he’s got a student deferment.
		Bertolucci’s more innocent world in 1968 was filled with so much change-in-the-air, but showed that the world couldn't be changed only through a sexual revolution and love of movies.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/dreamers.htm (692 words)

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