How many here took part in demonstrations back in the 60s and 70s?

[captain queeg]

I was never arrested but some horse cop tried running me and my friend over

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	Never
	1 (3%)
	Once
	3 (10%)
	Two or three times
	11 (38%)
	Many
	13 (45%)
	Yes and I was arrested or roughed up
	0 (0%)
	Yes and I participated in the destruction of government property
	1 (3%)
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[CurtEastPoint]

1. I drove from Chapel Hill to DC around 70 to protest the war. It was peaceful.

[RockCreek]

2. I was a child in the 70s

And my parents brought me to protests.

[kcr]

3. Never, but I was born in the 70s

[CanonRay]

4. Does getting firehosed count as roughed up

[marlakay]

5. Saw on tv born in late 5o's nt

[LeftInTX]

6. We demonstrated in HS..LOL

Sit ins...but really were just being anti-authority brats

[Mr.Bill]

7. I was at anti-war protests a few times in the 60s-70s.

I was pretty young (I turned 18 in '71) And while I was genuinely against the war and understood what was going on, to be perfectly honest some of the protests were more entertainment and social events than serious political events. Sometimes there would be bands playing, weed being passed around and frankly it was a good place to meet girls.

I did get a little whiff of tear gas a few times.

[brush]

8. Present. All the old campus radicals find their way here.

And our enemy, once the Young Republicans, have become radicalized right wing terrorists enthralled by the most corrupt, mentally unstable, sociopath to ever pollute the WH.

It's amazing. You'd expect the low info fools to become magats but they're coming from all strata of society.

[Elwood P Dowd]

9. The biggest one I attended was in Washington DC, late April/early May 1971.

The march and concert on Saturday drew over 200,000 people. Slept in a sleeping bag with friends near The Washington Monument that night.

[Cirque du So-What]

10. Too young and too far away from protests in the '60s

Active duty military in the ‘70s, so participating in protests could endanger my freedom.

[LakeArenal]

11. However the only time I was tear gassed was walking home from class not protesting.

[Kablooie]

12. Not exactly but...

I was allowed to enter the humanities building at Cal State Fullerton that was being occupied by radical Vietnam War protestors who locked the doors with chains and patrolled the roof with guns. Students were allowed in but no teachers. I remember there were spray painted fists on lots of wall but most of protestors were lying around the green room with lots of pot.

[former9thward]

13. Yes, and I am enjoying the hypocrisy of many FB friends of mine claiming all they did was "peaceful"

BS, I was there and I know what we did.

[birdographer]

14. Was at Ohio State protesting

around the Kent State protests. Got a sniff of tear gas, ran to a nearby dorm with my to-be husband. That was about it... enough for me!

[IsItJustMe]

15. Too young at the time. I did have a hippy come up and grab and hug me though,

the first day I arrived in North Miami Beach Florida outside a sub sandwich shop and he said, "Hey man, the Viet Nam War is over." I was just a child but that memory was imprinted on my mind and has stuck with me my entire life. He was absolutely over joyed.

[a kennedy]

16. Madison Wisconsin.....THE STERLING HALL BOMBINGS.....headlines everywhere.....

Vietnam war....protesting...tear gassed...AND WE DIDN’T STORM ANY BUILDINGS......

[pecosbob]

17. Mine were all peaceful...NORML protests in the 70's

I smoked a joint on the steps of the Capitol Building. On January 6th they smoked a cop in the Capitol Building.

[Golden Raisin]

18. I was in college from '67-'71 so definitely

right in the middle of it. Participated in many demonstrations and marches. Was a "bus captain" on long distance bus trips to Washington, DC for big protests there. Got literally spat on by local "patriotic" residents while marching in an Anti Vietnam War march in my college town.

[Blue_true]

19. I was too young for the 60s demonstrations, just reached 18 just before

Kent State, but was still in high school.

[2naSalit]

20. I have mostly absentee parents...

And I ran off to beantown for marches, went to DC a couple times, participated in street theater as protests when marches weren't happening in the 70s. In the 80s I was in Wisconsin and marched a few times in Madison when I lived there. And this century in Montana a couple times in 2019.

[BainsBane]

21. I was a baby

but I protested in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s.

[kiranon]

22. UC Berkeley n/t

[moondust]

23. At protest after bombing Cambodia

was followed down a sidewalk by 2-3 cops in riot gear armed with nightsticks but they didn't speed up to try to catch us. Earlier that day some protestors detected an infiltrator blending into the crowd nearby, possibly COINTELPRO, and pulled his long-hair wig off! The crowd roared and the infiltrator quickly ran away.

[Dem2]

24. With my parents

[Silent3]

25. Not until the 80s

I didn't turn 18 until 1980. My first trip to DC, on a ten-hour drive from NH with a van full of college students, was for protesting Reagan admin policy in Central America.