Nearly 50 years ago these lyrics were recorded. Remind anyone of anything?

[DFW]

There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind

It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
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Gee, what does THAT remind me of?
Let me think, it'll come to me any second now...........

[Enthusiast]

1. Occupy? The Vietnam War protests? nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. If it were dozens of people in the streets, I'd say the Tea Party.

[AverageGuy]

3. Vietnam, it is time to go back to the streets and get clean for Bernie

theres something happening here
what it is aint exactly clear
theres a man with a gun over there
tellin me i got to be 'ware
i think its time we
stop

children whats that sound
everybody look whats goin down

there's battle lines bein' drawn
nobody's right if everybody's wrong
young people speaking their minds
im gettin so much resistance
from behind
its time we stop

hey whats that sound
everybody look whats goin down.

what a field day for the heat
a thousand people in the street
singin songs and carrying signs
mostly sayin' 'hooray for our side'
its time we stop

hey, what's that sound
everybody look whats goin down

paranoia strikes deep
into your life it will creep
it starts when you always afraid
step out of line
the men come and take you away
we better stop

hey whats that sound
everybody look whats goin down

stop
hey whats that sound
everybody look whats goin down

[Surya Gayatri]

4. One of Buffalo Springfield's most memorable hits - if not THE most...

Resonates today just as forcefully as it did back in 1967!



How are things stateside?

[DFW]

7. Where we are, VERY tranquil

Truro, Massachusetts is not exactly a busy metropolis by any standard......

[Surya Gayatri]

8. Enjoy the let up...things very tense in Germany and in Greece.

[DFW]

10. We know about Greece

Haven't heard much about Germany (trying not to). We figure it'll still be there when we come back.

[Surya Gayatri]

11. Angela's right flank is braying loudly and the progressives are baying

for Angela's head for a twitter 'bomb' about her being 'insensitive and dismissive' to a young Palestinian refugee.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026982227

German chancellor criticised over crying refugee girl

[DFW]

12. Oh, right. I did see that.

Of course, what Germany COULD have done is toss them all back the second they hit German soil, and then there would be no scenes like this to record and put on the internet, no Palestinian kids with four years of German education, German language skills, and at least a shot of a job with one of the many German representative offices in the Middle East.

It's cruel what that girl is going through, but it would have been crueler to stick her for four years in a tent camp in Lebanon where they only had water tainted with raw sewage with which to wash their clothes and cook their food.

[Surya Gayatri]

13. Agree, but once a meme, always a meme. Now, she's the 'mean old mutti', picking on a cute kid.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

5. In the soundtrack from...

...the movie Lord of War.

[mulsh]

6. Steven Stills hauling ass away from the Sunset Strip riots in '66

writing that song in the car as they headed home.

[DFW]

9. "Mostly say, 'Hooray for our side'" and "Paranoia strikes deep"

I was thinking more of DU these days

The "I hate Hillary/Bernie/Germany/Greece" games are getting old VERY early this time.

I am not (yet) ready for Hillary, and I feel Berned out.

Good thing I am far away from it all for a few weeks. Even as a kid, I never got my jollies throwing rocks at other people's windows.

[FiveGoodMen]

14. It reminds me of the hope that was dashed when the boomers becames yuppies in the 80s

[DFW]

15. An inevitable process for some, not for others

Success doesn't HAVE to mean you cease to care. It happens often enough, no two ways about it. But it's by no means automatic, and we're stupid if we assume all successful people succumb to the "I've got mine" syndrome and cease to remember how fine it felt to belong to something larger than themselves.

[mackerel]

16. Whenever I here that song and Who Will Stop the Rain

it so quickly takes me back to being a kid during the war. Remember other kids in the neighborhood wondering who's big brother would be sent next. We'd hear about so and so boys getting killed or coming back injured. Or like my cousin, you'd hear, he came back not right in the head.

My parents started the local peace movement in our town and my dad ran the local Catholic youth group, they started a coffee house called The Mensch and a lot of the teenage kids started to hang out there looking for support and adults they could talk to who would listen to them about their fears about going over there.

I don't think my Dad started out being against the war but getting to meet all these kids and hearing their stories and their fears, I think it got him to questioning President Johnson.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

17. Bacon.

mmmmm. Bacon.

[ailsagirl]

18. Amazing song-- still resonates

That says a lot about a 50-year-old song.

[KoKo]

19. I remember.........

That's why:

Sigline..

I find it amazing how the late 60's early 70's are revisiting. The "Rolling Stones" still going and packed our largest Stadium (Woodstock, Altamont memories) other symbols of that time and we have Bernie Sanders running and getting huge crowds. We have Bill and Hillary who were living through the civil rights and Vietnam activism in New Haven. So many other symbols of the Revisit to that time. I read somewhere that those of us alive now, who lived through that time, are still here for a purpose we need to fulfill before its our time to leave. In a way chosen to complete a task of reform. A little too spiritual or woo? Whatever...there's much that brings back memories of that tumultuous time because so many of the issues are back again.

We have another chance to try to to move issues of race, gender, equality, endless wars and climate change forward and hopefully bring lasting change this time. Its a burden I hope we can finally lift because we have the memories and knowledge to contribute and another large group of young people concerned enough to work for change once again. Joining Hands.

Enjoy your break--lovely place to be. Just talked to a friend in Germany. Between the heat and the discord there, he says it is a worrisome time.