1968/2008

The President Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum in Austin Texas is releasing over 600 hours of tapes from throughout 1968, LBJs last year in office. He comments candidly on the war in Vietnam and about the police riots in Chicago. More news here.

DIVERSIONS: A FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO
8-11 MAY 2008
FILMHOUSE, EDINBURGH
DIVERSIONS is a new festival of experimental film and video organised jointly by Filmhouse cinema and the Film Studies section of the University of Edinburgh.
The festival will begin with an historical introduction to experimental cinema, led by Pip Chodorov, filmmaker, founder of Revoir video and […]

SDS screening: Brother Outsider: Bayard Rustin Mon. 4/21 7PM Stuart 105
 
Monday, April 21, 2008, 7PM
University of Chicago
Stuart Hall, 5835 S. Greenwood Ave. room 105
UChicago Students for a Democratic Society and the Platypus Affiliated
Society present a film screening-discussion:
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (2003)
with John D’Emilio, author of Lost Prophet: the life and […]

Here are several articles outlining and remembering the history of the ” Tlatelolco Massacre” that preceded the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. This event reminds us that events like the Olympics rarely occur without bloodshed.

 Tlatelolco Massacre of 1968 left hundreds dead in Mexico 
Upsurge and Massacre in Mexico, 1968 pt.1

Upsurge pt. 2

In 68, after Martin Luther King Jr, was assassinated over 100 cities in the US had significant revolts or “riots” in poor Black neighborhoods. Those included Chicago and Baltimore. On the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of those events here are a a few articles on the topic:

When Baltimore burned: Four decades after riots […]

While much attention is focused on Paris and other Western European contexts in the literature and prominent histories of 1968, there were great upheavals that same year throughout the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc Countries. While I will focus more on the events of the Prague Spring of 68 in later posts on this site, […]