Paris: May 1968 + 40

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There are other anniversaries to recall. Especially in view of the French award to Marek Edelman, rapellons Mai 1968! This is the 40th anniversary of the student takeover of the Sorbonne in Paris

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This slide had already been posted; without mentioning what will be obvious to most. It is one of the Maoist groups in front of the statue of Pasteur. There will be other stereo slides I took, mainly in the Sorbonne courtyard , when this gets organized properly. Meanwhile other things, too.

"Servir le Peuple", another Maoist group (or groupuscule as such began to be called by the Right). Taken from the second floor on the other side of the courtyard.

Danton on his pedestal is not directing one way traffic on Boulevard St. Germain, but pointing in. the direction to take to the Sorbonne, cradle of the (potential) 1968 revolution .

Notice in front of the stock exchange for an "anti-communist" meeting at the Mutualite. The Communist party (PCF) at that time was opposed to the student revolt (started at the Nanterre campus)

Fruit stands next to the Mutualite and not far from the Sorbonne.

That wasn't meant to be a smile. It's a grin. She had waited long enough so as not to obscure my photo of the scene behind, while I pretended to still be preparing for the shot. After she finally had enough, she clearly wanted to show that she was wise to my tricks.

Here there were two groupuscules, one Trotzkyist. The other ?

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French students were not the only ones to challenge the status quo. A few slides from 1960s Berkeley, California, from which I had just arrived and where I returned home about a month later.

National Guard troops on Telegraph Avenue

On University of California (UC) Berkeley campus; activity against Dow Chemical Company recruiters while Dow was producing much of the Napalm used in Vietnam

Oakland's finest called in to help Berkeley's for California's Governor Ronald Reagan's attendance at UC Regents meeting

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Students at the University of Mexico negotiatiating with University administrators about the buses (in background) they had taken to the campus in solidarity with striking bus drivers; (1965 +/- 1)