The Longest Student Strike in History

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  • Опубликовано: 26 июн 2024
  • #StudentProtest #HistoricMovements and a class on #Beyoncé !
    Throughout history, students have voiced their opinions on issues closest to their hearts. In this episode of Roots of Resistance, we explore how, in 1968, a group of fearless students and their allies ignited a revolution for equality that transformed campuses and society forever.
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Комментарии • 47

  • @prettypic444
    @prettypic444 12 дней назад +46

    Speaking on college strikes and minorities, the Deaf President Now protests of 1988 is a little known event that had HUGE impact for the disabled rights movements. Students at Gallaudet, one of the only universities specifically designed for the deaf/HoH, went on strike after the administration promoted yet another hearing president over a deaf candidate. The students demanded a deaf president and majority deaf board of directors to better reflect and represent deaf culture. The strike was monumental in the disabled rights movement and many of the students were involved in the Americans with Disabilities Act campaign a few years later

    • @nickc3657
      @nickc3657 12 дней назад +1

      Wow! I had no idea, I definitely would watch a video about this.

    • @andreabrown4541
      @andreabrown4541 11 дней назад +1

      I remember this well. If anyone has the time, please pull the 60 Minutes segment.

  • @PokhrajRoy.
    @PokhrajRoy. 12 дней назад +37

    I was always led to believe Student Protests were an impediment but if you’re truly fed up and feel like expressing yourself, it will come out one way or another.

    • @xDianaMoonx
      @xDianaMoonx 12 дней назад +1

      Understandable! And for those it doesn't "obviously" affect them, it can seem more so. But usually there were a lot of other actions that were taken to prevent the protests, and like union strikes, are the last ditch efforts since anything else didn't work. Unfortunately, most of the previous actions don't get reported on until it hits the strike/protest stage, so it will look like it was a trigger response.

  • @xDianaMoonx
    @xDianaMoonx 12 дней назад +36

    This video is SO needed, since a lot of vocally loud online people don't seem to understand what the protests, the initiatives are meant to do. To uplift everyone and help with *everyone's* unconscious bias across a spectrum of issues, from class to culture to religion, etc. Pretty much everything that the students in the 60s & 70s fought for is still needed now.
    My parents remember the strike in SFSU and the ones that happened at City College too. They had friends who were very active in those.
    Thank you as always for a fantastic video!

  • @moonbasket
    @moonbasket 12 дней назад +20

    Great to hear about successful student protests of the past alongside the current student protests for Gaza. ❤

  • @kidmohair8151
    @kidmohair8151 12 дней назад +10

    I lived through that era.
    one of the (many) lessons I learned was
    do not buckle to an unreasonable and unreasoning authority.

  • @Caterfree10
    @Caterfree10 12 дней назад +35

    Always amazing to me we look back at historical student protests and admire their work. But when we look at modern equivalents, we attack them, calling them naive and ignorant. Complete frustration at the inability to learn from history tbh.
    Also, I see y’all’s censorship in the comments, smdh.

    • @nickc3657
      @nickc3657 12 дней назад +1

      Censorship?

    • @Caterfree10
      @Caterfree10 12 дней назад

      @@nickc3657someone had a free P@lestine comment that got deleted. The not learning from history I alluded to.

    • @Caterfree10
      @Caterfree10 12 дней назад +5

      @@nickc3657they are removing a certain kind of “free ____” movement but leaving the opposition comment up. An encapsulation of not learning from history.

    • @ardethellis8930
      @ardethellis8930 11 дней назад +3

      We were called that back then.

    • @nickc3657
      @nickc3657 11 дней назад +2

      @@Caterfree10 oh wow. I wonder if that’s policy?

  • @bnthern
    @bnthern 12 дней назад +3

    well presented - as a student on the other coast, the Black and returning veterans cause many changes (most great) and enhanced our overall ability to learn and relate!

  • @CookieBear187
    @CookieBear187 12 дней назад +6

    If you want to know whose on the right side of history, look towards the students

  • @beepboop2816
    @beepboop2816 12 дней назад +3

    I love being able to learn more about this sort of stuff that went largely untaught in history classes!

  • @AliciaMagicBoogie
    @AliciaMagicBoogie 11 дней назад +4

    It's unfortunate that fashion isn't the only thing that comes around again. One step forward, 2 steps back. As long as we keep talking and fighting, there's still hope for equality for all

  • @ghostie6190
    @ghostie6190 11 дней назад +4

    a needed video - reminds me of how now and days every moderate and white person wants to quote mlk but they wouldve or were the ones criticizing him, calling him dangerous and the activists rioters.....

  • @bahiras
    @bahiras 10 дней назад +4

    Right on, Boomer Students! I was 13 years old then and later became politically & socially active. It was a good time for social change, and we are not done!

  • @PuraCiensualidad
    @PuraCiensualidad 9 дней назад +2

    Woow, it is good to know that the US was also part of the student strike worldwide in 1968

  • @austinmitchell2652
    @austinmitchell2652 12 дней назад +1

    This is a great and important story, and I'm very appreciative for all the work that went into this video!

  • @niket527
    @niket527 10 дней назад +6

    So absolutely no mention of the Gaza protests?

  • @windlessoriginals1150
    @windlessoriginals1150 11 дней назад +1

    Thank you. This is a great series.

  • @anaquezia5532
    @anaquezia5532 10 дней назад +1

    That's so interesting! Are there any connections or similarities to the students' protests in France, Brazil and other countries in 1968?

  • @PokhrajRoy.
    @PokhrajRoy. 12 дней назад +2

    10:08 Creating a curriculum for students by students

  • @YUNGDJ4REAL
    @YUNGDJ4REAL 12 дней назад +3

    ❤❤❤

  • @micmor517
    @micmor517 12 дней назад

    Sf State is the college of ethnic studies its no dept

  • @Pou1gie1
    @Pou1gie1 12 дней назад +1

    @0:58 Taking classes on Beyoncé is not a great example of how this improved education.

    • @xDianaMoonx
      @xDianaMoonx 12 дней назад +7

      But no comment on the zombie one? 🙄
      From Cornell University: "The Beyoncé Nation course at Cornell, which has been requested regularly over the past several years, is finally back by popular demand! Beyoncé's trajectory from Houston, Texas as a member of the group Destiny's Child to international fame and superstardom and a successful career as a solo singer, actress, clothing designer and entrepreneur holds important implications for critical dialogues on the U.S. South and national femininity. One aspect of this course examines themes related to her intersectional identity as a model of black and Southern womanhood that have recurred in her song lyrics, performances and visual representations, which have also been foundational for her development of more recent productions, including "Formation" and the larger Lemonade album."
      Also usually studies on Zombies (which was a section of my Pop Culture Literacy Class), talks about xenophobia in the US and in other countries, and why zombies (and even vampires) became so popular early on in movies. It also deals with the working class and slave labors that happened even past abolition.

    • @nickc3657
      @nickc3657 12 дней назад +5

      It is. Universities should be teaching classes about modern topics and trends in all fields, not just sciences.

  • @RandomNPC001
    @RandomNPC001 12 дней назад +1

    What is up with the commie star PBS?!

    • @snowballeffect7812
      @snowballeffect7812 12 дней назад +1

      communism is when star.

    • @Sad_bumper_sticker.
      @Sad_bumper_sticker. 12 дней назад +11

      The socialist movement has a rich, diverse history going back to XIX century Europe different socialist movements, which expanded how citizens (especially local European Jewish minorities) can be considered equal and not be excluded from social, educationall infrastructure, intellectual life.
      In the US, during the Red Scare, hundreds and thousands of very differing Socialist Organizations, all inclusive to Jewish Americans, and all minorities and social classes, during the Red Scare in the 1959s thousands of intellectuals, activists, professionals, artists, musicians, a large proportion of Hollywood were all black-listed and unfairly stigmatized for being „Un-American”.
      This cultural witch-hunt caused many to commit suicide, especially Jewish migrants from Europe who had decades old ties to social activism.
      American socialist movements did amazing things for all Working Americans thanks to Worker’s Unions Workers Rights were historically established.
      Accussing the „Other” of „being a commie” is a historically rooted pop-culture trope based on America’s rich history of Conspiracy Theories.

    • @RandomNPC001
      @RandomNPC001 12 дней назад

      @@Sad_bumper_sticker. Stalin and Mao said "Hi!"

    • @kidmohair8151
      @kidmohair8151 12 дней назад +1

      @@Sad_bumper_sticker. don't trouble yourself trying to explain...
      this one does not wish to be reasoned with

  • @RandomNPC001
    @RandomNPC001 12 дней назад +1

    Free Israel! ❤❤❤

    • @dad7493
      @dad7493 12 дней назад +39

      From what? The Geneva conventions? 😭

    • @RandomNPC001
      @RandomNPC001 12 дней назад +1

      @@dad7493 From terr0r attacks!

    • @dad7493
      @dad7493 12 дней назад +1

      @@RandomNPC001 they're literally the ones that have been terrorizing civilians for 75 years literally grow tf up 💀

    • @Pou1gie1
      @Pou1gie1 12 дней назад +1

      @@dad7493 ❤ this comment!!!🤗

    • @oofbih6397
      @oofbih6397 9 дней назад +1

      From the responsibility of murdering innocent people and children