As a Boomer, what did you do to implement social change

[Mari333]

back in the 60s and 70's?
I love to hear the stories.
I was working in the antiwar movement, working for the Metropolitan Area Housing Assoc in Chicago to keep poor people from being evicted, working with the Chicago Womens Liberation Union, working on a rape crisis line (before women had rights ), and doing illustrations for women's periodicals. I also worked at Underground newspapers.
Please tell me what you did, and how you worked to implement much needed social change and progressive policies..

[graywarrior]

1. Mostly anti-war stuff. Got tear gassed a few times.

[Mari333]

3. I was tear gassed in Ann Arbour

and photographed by the Red Squad in Chicago so many times I could pick out the Red Squad photographers when I showed up at the demonstrations. I was young, so I stuck out my tongue at them.

[slackmaster]

2. Worked mainly on local environmental causes

Fighting destruction of wetlands and canyons, and overdevelopment in general.

We did manage a few victories here and there.

[Mari333]

5. I dont think a lot of young people

realize what the 50s were like. until people like Rachel Carson came along, and exposed the destruction of the planet, no one questioned anything. It was a decade of unbridled conservatism and McCarthyesque insanity. So much has been changed since then, thank god.

[DBoon]

4. I'm a younger boomer

Saigon fell my freshman year in college

I was active in a housing co-op and helped set up a food co-op during my college years (late 1970's)

After graduating, I became active in housing rights issues

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Mainly anti-war protests, including the big march on DC. Worked on the passage of the ERA. Through

NOW, worked with abused women seeking to escape their abusers.

[L0oniX]

7. Anti war protests & ran away to hide in Haight Ashbury to avoid draft registration.

[Dr.Phool]

8. An old Yippee!

Anti-war movement, legalize pot, also supporting worker's strikes.

We put together a huge paper mache' float of a big rat, with Nixon's head on it, and tried to get it in his second inaugural parade. They wouldn't let it in. But, our Madison, Wisconsin chapter brought down about 13,000 dead lab rats, and as Nixon passed us, he got pelted with them.

That made national news.

[BlooInBloo]

9. Wow. No Civil Rights people.

[Soylent Brice]

10. not a boomer, but...

i want to thank all of you who were activists that changed the world for me and my family.

no words can show my true appreciation.

[BonnieJW]

11. Anti-war, equal rights for women, equal rights for

African-Americans, ban the bomb. Mostly, we marched and sat in.