1968/2008

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 […]

The Root.com has organized a collection of excerpts and statements of famous thinkers, actors and entertainers who have reflected on the day they heard that Martin Luther King Jr had been assassinated in Memphis. The collection includes:

Angela Davis, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Bush, […]

In 1968, fury at the Vietnam war sparked protests and uprisings across the world: from Paris and Prague to Mexico. Tariq Ali considers the legacy 40 years on here in the Guardian.

In this article in the Burlington (Vermont) FreePress, you can read 10 Vermonters reflect on their involvement in Anti-War activism in 1968. The article also includes a useful timeline of the year.

Robert Reich is the nation’s 22nd Secretary of Labor and a close personal friend of the Clinton family. Here, he reflects on traveling to Oxford with Bill Clinton in 1968 and on how the Right has taken over politics in the US since that year. He speculates on a possible shift back towards a prominent […]

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s murder in Memphis, I have rounded up some of the articles that appeared in recent weeks reflecting on his legacy. They are from radically different perspectives which show the range of perspectives and ideologies that attempt to use his work to give greater […]

In this comparative review of three new books about 68 and SDS, Elsa Dixler, suggests “It might be argued that the movements of the 1960s were far more successful culturally than they were politically..”
Read the review here.
The Books:
RAVENS IN THE STORM
A Personal History of the 1960s Antiwar Movement.
By Carl Oglesby.
336 pp. Scribner. $25.
AMERICA’S CHILD
A […]