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Vietnam War
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Anatomic Explosion
Read more: Anatomic ExplosionOBLITERATE WALL STREET MEN WITH POLKA DOTS In the mid-to-late 1960s, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama staged a series of happenings. Situated someplace between the physically participatory (be-in) space of protest culture and an Art Brut magick ceremony, Kusama’s polka-dot drenched…
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Vietnam comes to Washington
Read more: Vietnam comes to WashingtonIt’s the summer of 1971 and tourists flock around one of Washington DC’s most famous hotspots – the Capitol steps. Journalist Art Goldberg recalls ‘a squad of soldiers moving through the space. They are grubby-looking troopers, clad in jungle fatigues.…
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March Against Death
Read more: March Against DeathOn the night of Thursday, Nov. 13, 1969, the “March Against Death” began. By the time that weekend was over, Washington, D.C., had seen more protesters than any single event in its history had drawn. Attendance was higher, by tens…
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I Paint, I Protest: Mary Perry Stone
Read more: I Paint, I Protest: Mary Perry StoneVideo of Mary Perry Stone’s social protest art created in the 1960s . Civil Rights, and the Vietnam War were her subjects. Mary never stopped being an activist and a few of her later works are also in the video.…
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Napalming a Dog!?
Read more: Napalming a Dog!?In 1968, with the US war against Vietnam raging, anti-war veterans and the anti-war movement as a whole in the US increasingly put the spotlight on the US use of napalm. Napalm is burning jellied gasoline dropped on humans engineered…
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San Francisco Mime Troupe performs L’amant Militaire
Read more: San Francisco Mime Troupe performs L’amant MilitaireThe San Francisco Mine Troupe has been staging radical political theater for over fifty years. In 1967, the Troupe toured campuses across the midwest, performing L’amant Militaire – a satirized adaptation of an old anti-war play, updated to critique US…