General Discussion

The protests proliferated into the hearts and minds of many and spread like wildfire. A counter culture was emerging and the squares couldn't keep up with it. How to counterattack it? Drugs and squash/silence the messengers.. Suddenly even record companies had to behave like fascists; e.g. telling CSNY what to do, as songs were very powerful with their messages.
People are protesting now in many places and there is a chance the experience will radicalize them in the true sense of the word "radical" (the root) not this bullshit term for reactionaries wrongly applied.
Yes other things sprang up. Earth Day was a wonderful example.
When we heard things such as I did "The United States today owns and controls 2,270 foreign military outposts, stations and bases." NYT quoting the GAO back in the 60's, you do not have to be of Macedonian ancestry to know the USA long ago ceased to be a nation and has been an empire for over 125 years. And those stats do not even include clandestine operations or undeclared war operations.
Still many opposed those fucking undeclared wars merely so they could not be placed in harm's way. Soon the RW war mongers would switch this huge anti-war movement into pro POW sympathy by constantly pounding that drum. (End of rant, sorry!)