Tag Archives: Religion

Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors

Posted on March 25, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO) was a United States nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people avoid or resist military conscription or seek discharge after voluntary enlistment. It was active in supporting conscientious objectors (‘CO’s’), war resisters and draft … Continue reading →

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Sartre’s Bad Trip

Posted on March 21, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Beyond their visual qualities, mescaline’s hallucinations posed profound philosophical questions. During the mid-1930s three prominent writers and thinkers left records of their experiments with it. In 1934 and 1935 respectively, Walter Benjamin and Jean-Paul Sartre participated in the now-familiar modus … Continue reading →

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Phillip Berrigan and The Baltimore Four

Posted on October 27, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

#1. Phil Berrigan pouring blood on 1-A draft files at Customs House, Baltimore, MD. Oct. 27, 1967 “Philip Francis Berrigan SSJ (October 5, 1923 – December 6, 2002) was an American peace activist and Catholic priest with the Josephites. He engaged … Continue reading →

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Mississippi: A March Resurrects a Movement by Jack Newfield (1966)

Posted on January 16, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI — Overcoming disunity, out-of-fashionableness, poverty, and aching feet, the civil rights movement was reborn Sunday on the grounds of the Mississippi state capitol, before the executioners’ eyes of 700 Mississippi troopers and police, armed with M-1s, live ammunition, … Continue reading →

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Denise Levertov

Posted on November 10, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Priscilla Denise Levertov (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997) was a British-born naturalised American poet. … During the 1960s and 70s, Levertov became much more politically active in her life and work. As poetry editor for The Nation, she … Continue reading →

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Nat Hentoff (June 10, 1925 – January 7, 2017)

Posted on October 23, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Nat Hentoff with the clarinetist Edmond Hall in 1948 at the Savoy, a club in Boston. “Nat Hentoff, an author, journalist, jazz critic and civil libertarian who called himself a troublemaker and proved it with a shelf of books and … Continue reading →

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Howard Zinn Carried Out an Act of Radical Diplomacy in the Middle of the Vietnam War

Posted on August 30, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Howard Zinn (left) and Daniel Berrigan (right) in Hanoi, Vietnam, in February 1968. “A ‘rare act in the great madness of this war’ was how forty-five-year-old historian Howard Zinn described North Vietnam’s decision to release three American pilots during the … Continue reading →

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Thomas Merton

Posted on May 16, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Thomas Merton OCSO (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist and scholar of comparative religion. On May 26, 1949, he was ordained to the Catholic priesthood and given the … Continue reading →

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The Decline and Fall of the Democratic Party – Murray Kempton (Nov. 1968)

Posted on April 9, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“… We had arrived at 18th and Michigan, where the [national] guard and the police waited to say we could not go farther. The delegates had all found us and efficiently lined up behind Rev. Richard Neuhaus and me, since, … Continue reading →

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CORE in Brooklyn: A Small Army on the Move (April 21, 1964)

Posted on March 1, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“‘We have a hymn—Like a Mighty Army Moves the Church. Brooklyn CORE is not a mighty army. It’s a small army — but it moves.’ The speaker was the Rev. Dr. Milton A. Galamison, who vowed last summer never to … Continue reading →

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Robert Penn Warren – Who Speaks for the Negro? (1965)

Posted on February 19, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In 1965, Random House published Robert Penn Warren’s book titled Who Speaks for the Negro? In preparation for writing the volume, Warren traveled throughout the United States in early 1964 and spoke with large numbers of men and women who … Continue reading →

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Regina King – One Night in Miami … (2020) Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke

Posted on February 13, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Regina King’s feature-film directorial debut, One Night in Miami . . . (2020), persuasively envisions an astonishing true-life convergence of Black heroes at a portentous mid-twentieth-century juncture in American life. In doing so, the movie brings forth its own array of astonishments, not the … Continue reading →

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When Martin Luther King Came to Harlem

Posted on January 17, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Less than a year before his assassination, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. came to Harlem. In the June 22, 1967, Village Voice, contributor Marlene Nadle observed the crowd anxiously awaiting the Baptist minister’s arrival: ‘Using programs folded accordion style instead … Continue reading →

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Oz

Posted on December 17, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Oz was an independently published, alternative/underground magazine associated with the international counterculture of the 1960s. While it was first published in Sydney in 1963, a parallel version of Oz was published in London from 1967. The Australian magazine was published … Continue reading →

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My Three Powerfully Effective Commandments by Ingmar Bergman (Summer 1970 Issue)

Posted on October 29, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Experience should be gained before one reaches forty, so a wise man has said. After forty it is permissible for one to comment. I venture to say that the reverse might apply in my case. No one under forty was … Continue reading →

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Saint John Coltrane: The San Francisco Church Built On A Love Supreme

Posted on September 28, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Little of San Francisco today is as it was half a century ago. But at the corner of Turk Boulevard and Lyon Street stands a true survivor: the Church of St. John Coltrane. Though officially founded in 1971, the roots … Continue reading →

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The Trials of Muhammad Ali – Bill Siegel (2013)

Posted on July 25, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Clay, was not the only American to refuse to serve during the Vietnam War, but he was, by some measures, the most famous, the loudest and the baddest. Tracing the road to Mr. Ali’s act of … Continue reading →

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Absurdism

Posted on May 23, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Sisyphus, the symbol of the absurdity of existence, painting by Franz Stuck (1920) “In philosophy, ‘the Absurd’ refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life, and the human inability to find these … Continue reading →

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Muhammad Ali Explains Why He Refused to Fight in Vietnam: “My Conscience Won’t Let Me Go Shoot My Brother… for Big Powerful America” (1970)

Posted on May 5, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In April of 1967, Muhammad Ali arrived at the U.S. Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Station in Houston, Texas. ‘Standing beside twenty-five other nerve-racked young men called to the draft,’ writes David Remnick at The New Yorker, Ali ‘refused to … Continue reading →

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“The Death of the Author” – Roland Barthes (1967)

Posted on April 28, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Ecclesiastes famously warns us that ‘Of making many books there is no end’ – the same, of course, applies to book commentaries. George Steiner has long denounced the ‘mandarin madness of secondary discourse’ which increasingly interposes itself between readers and … Continue reading →

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Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal – Howard Zinn (1967)

Posted on April 25, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Howard Zinn (January 1, 2004) – “[A note of explanation: In the spring of 1967, my book Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal was published by Beacon Press. It was the first book on the war to call for immediate withdrawal, … Continue reading →

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My Time as a Vietnam War-era Conscientious Objector

Posted on April 9, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Conscientious objector William White being dragged from his home in Sydney after being arrested, 1966 “When I chose to apply for conscientious objector status in 1969 during the height of the Vietnam War, I was a teenager and in a … Continue reading →

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History of War Tax Resistance

Posted on January 14, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Writers and Editors War Tax ad as it appeared in 1968 Ramparts magazine. “… War tax resistance gained nationwide publicity when Joan Baez announced in 1964 her refusal to pay 60 percent of her 1963 income taxes because of the … Continue reading →

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Anti-nuclear movement in the United States

Posted on December 25, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Women Strike for Peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. “The anti-nuclear movement in the United States consists of more than 80 anti-nuclear groups that oppose nuclear power, nuclear weapons, and/or uranium mining. These have included the Abalone Alliance, … Continue reading →

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Burning Draft Cards (November 19, 1965)

Posted on December 8, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Seldom does there occur a liturgical ceremony more impressive than the draft-card burning which took place in Manhattan’s Union Square November 6. Through the opening poems chanted by the only bearded speaker of the day, through the homilies delivered by … Continue reading →

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Remarks on Timothy Leary’s Politics of Ecstasy by Allen Ginsberg (December 12, 1968)

Posted on November 23, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“By the late ’40s of this memory Century the people I knew best and loved the most had already broken through the crust of old Reason & were dowsing for some Supreme Reality, Christmas on Earth Rimbaud said, Second Religiousness … Continue reading →

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Lenny Bruce

Posted on November 4, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), better known by his stage name Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist. He was renowned for his open, freestyle and critical form of comedy which … Continue reading →

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Walter Kaufmann’s Classic Lectures on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Sartre (1960)

Posted on October 22, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Walter Kaufmann spent 33 years (1947-1980) teaching philosophy at Princeton. And more than anyone else, Kaufmann introduced Nietzsche’s philosophy to the English-speaking world and made it possible to take Nietzsche seriously as a thinker – something there wasn’t always room … Continue reading →

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Liberation theology

Posted on September 26, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

The entrance of the community building serves as a reminder and commemoration of the work and life of Archbishop Oscar Romero, Colonia Dolores, San Salvador, El Salvador. “Liberation theology (Spanish: Teología de la liberación, Portuguese: Teologia da libertação) is a … Continue reading →

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A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman

Posted on September 18, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In 1960, Swedish director Ingmar Bergman began work on three of his most powerful and representative films, eventually presented as a trilogy. Already a figure of international acclaim for such masterpieces as The Seventh Seal and The Magician, Bergman turned … Continue reading →

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The Things We Knew Then: Vivid Then, Fading Now?

Posted on August 28, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“1. James Forman was a. ’68 Olympic heavyweight champion b. national director of the Congress of Racial Equality c. a Czechoslovakian film director d. executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 2. In Easy Rider, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, … Continue reading →

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Amnesty International

Posted on July 17, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is a non-governmental organization with its headquarters in the United Kingdom focused on human rights. The organization says it has more than eight million members and supporters around the world. The … Continue reading →

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The Spice-Box of Earth – Leonard Cohen (1961)

Posted on June 24, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Spice-Box of Earth has three main themes: love, poetry and Judaism, these topics are spread through out the whole book but we can see in the beginning that poetic concepts prevail, that in the middle are abundant love poems, … Continue reading →

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Peter Coyote: Voice of the Vietnam Generation

Posted on May 21, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Halfway through episode five of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s ten-part The Vietnam War documentary, the smooth, sonorous-voiced narrator Peter Coyote describes how 50,000 antiwar activists marched from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon 50 years ago on October 21st, … Continue reading →

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Beauvoir on Feminism

Posted on April 20, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Simone de Beauvoir is a feminist icon. She didn’t just write the feminist book, she wrote the movement’s bible, The Second Sex. She was an engaged intellectual who combined philosophical and literary productivity with real-world political action that led to … Continue reading →

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Merging of Messages, Proliferation of Protest (May 2, 1968)

Posted on March 28, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“I remember a year ago, when the march began in the Sheep Meadow, and the people walked through the midtown streets until they came to the plaza of the United Nations to hear the man they now mourn repeat as … Continue reading →

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Malcolm X: The Complexity Of a Man in the Jungle (Feb. 25, 1965)

Posted on February 22, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Malcolm X has three faces. One is turned toward Africa, one toward Harlem, and one toward Washington. His masks are more numerous. They are juggled by both the actor and his audience. He’s a charismatic leader. Then a cartoon figure … Continue reading →

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Ram Dass (1931 – 2019)

Posted on December 23, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Ram Dass speaking at the Alternative Media Conference at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt., in 1970. “Baba Ram Dass, who epitomized the 1960s of legend by popularizing psychedelic drugs with Timothy Leary, a fellow Harvard academic, before finding spiritual inspiration … Continue reading →

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What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been (February 26, 1976)

Posted on December 18, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The San Francisco scene started at the Red Dog Saloon, as much as you can say it started at any one place. Most of the elements were there: rock & roll, a sort of light show, the first psychedelic dance … Continue reading →

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Ursula K. Le Guin’s Revolutions

Posted on October 5, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In the second book of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea cycle, the wizard Ged tells the priestess Arha that she has a choice. Stay and serve the nameless grim gods of the tomb, as she has done the last ten … Continue reading →

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