The [vietnam] War's Gone On For Three Years. And We'd Thought We'd Ended It Because We'd Done Exactly What We Were Told And What We Told Ourselves We'd Had To Do. We Had A Majority. We Were Against The War And This Created A Crisis For Democracy And A Crisis For The Antiwar Movement.

-Bill Ayers

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The [vietnam] War's Gone On For Three

Bill Ayers

The [vietnam] War's Gone On For Three Years. And We'd Thought We'd Ended It Because We'd Done Exactly What We Were Told And What We Told Ourselves We'd Had To Do. We Had A Majority. We Were Against The War And This Created A Crisis For Democracy And A Crisis For The Antiwar Movement.

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War

Years

Democracy

Now Teach-ins Are Fairly Common Or They Become Common Place. But In 1965, The Students For Democratic Society In Ann Harbor Organized The First Teach-in. The Way It Happened Was That We Were Advocating For A Strike That We Advocated That The Faculty Should Strike In Solidarity With The Vietnamese Struggle.

Struggle

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Firsts