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The Baby Boomers Grow Up From New Left & Counterculture to Neocons & Reagan Revolution From New Left & Counterculture to Neocons & Reagan Revolution.

Mario Savio & Berkeley Free Speech Movement

The “Third Coast”--UW Dow Protests

Students for a Democratic Society or the Youth International Party?

Rise of the Counterculture

New developments?

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night…

America when will you be angelic? When will you take off your clothes? When will you look at yourself through the grave? When will you be worthy of your million Trotskyites?

America why are your libraries full of tears? America when will you send your eggs to India? I'm sick of your insane demands. When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks?

American Indian Movemen t

Stonewall Protests

Feminism Equal Rights Amendment

Backlash

Moral Majority

Christian Coalition

Neoconservatism & Neoclassical Economics

Newt Gingrich & the Contract w/America Fiscal Responsibility Act Taking Back Our Streets Act Personal Responsibility Act American Dream Restoration Act

National Security Restoration Act "Common Sense" Legal Reform Act Job Creation & Wage Enhancement Act Citizen Legislature Act