Word: movements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Religion? "A whole new religious movement is beginning. We will see the further decline of organized Protestant denominations; more and more Eastern-religious and pseudoreligious movements will take hold...
...away. "This is not a good place to be. I knew there would be trouble. All of Chinatown is divided." Divided? "Yes." We walk up the hill toward Grant Avenue. A young Chinese with long hair, George Woo, joins us. The year before, he helped start a radical youth movement called Wah Ching in Chinatown...
Most of the trends that have recently and radically changed California life are familiar in the other America ?though many first came to prominence in California. They include the hippie movement, the pop-drug culture, widespread sexual permissiveness, campus revolt and, since the Watts explosion in 1965, more virulent ghetto riots. They also include, in reaction to much of this, a political swing to the right. Not to mention pollution of all kinds and the resulting concern for salvaging the threatened environment...
Union leaders have hated Boulwarism for years, but division between G.E.'s two big unions-the International Union of Electrical Workers and the United Electrical Workers-kept them from making a successful issue over it in the past. Now the entire labor movement is committed to the fight to kill Boulwarism. The strike has created an unusual alliance of twelve unions as disparate as the teamsters, the steelworkers and the autoworkers. Meany has pledged the entire A.F.L.-C.l.O. to support the war "until the hour of victory...
...Jungle and Silent Spring, in fact, had less to do with the message than a man who was not mentioned: Ralph Nader. Nixon's address testified to the growing power of consumerism, and of Nader, the lone crusader who has become the leader of the consumer movement...