What was it called when College students abandoned classes as an act against the Vietnam war9/21/2023 ![]() ![]() The May 2nd Movement calls that war and the resulting lies about it at home the products of an imperialistic system. Now thousands know the nature of the war in Vietnam and its corollary deceit in the press and in our universities, and its concomitant at home. Nowhere near enough because very few students even knew about the war, or if they did, knew what it means, or what they could do about it. In Boston, Madison, Wisconsin, Seattle, there were simultaneous smaller demonstrations. ![]() More than 700 students and young people marched through San Francisco. intervention" on behalf of the legitimate government of South Vietnam. In New York City, 1000 students marched through Times Square to the United Nations to protest what was then called "U.S. May 2, 1964, saw the first major student demonstrations against the war in Vietnam. The May 2nd Movement was formed to fight against a politics of default, specifically by organizing student protest and revolt against our government's savage war on the people of Vietnam. For it is a lack, a vacuum, that leads to political degeneration and default. In order to make ourselves into effective social beings and in order to discover, sharpen, and use the power of our knowledge, we should organize ourselves in the broadest possible way to combat that lack of education. We, as students in the richest but most brutally confused country in the world, cannot understand that world and our part in it with the a-historical education we receive in our universities. and the Institute of Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, is a collective of humanities scholars working together on the Internet to use electronic resources to provide routes of collaboration and make available primary and secondary sources for researchers, students, teachers, writers and librarians interested in the 1960s. ![]() The Sixties Project, sponsored by Viet Nam Generation Inc. This notice must accompany any redistribution of the text. This text may not be archived, printed, or redistributed in any form for a fee, without the consent of the copyright holder. This text may be used, printed, and archived in accordance with the Fair Use provisions of U.S. ![]() This text, made available by the Sixties Project, is copyright (c) 1993 by the Author or by Viet Nam Generation, Inc., all rights reserved. ![]()
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