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__**Historical Roots and Development**__ Explain the historical roots the movement. Going back to the late 1800s and early 1900s, determine who was involved in furthering the cause. Explain their impact on the movement, legislation that resulted from their efforts, and how society changed as a result of their efforts. Be sure to discuss transformations in the movement, reactions from other groups, and society's approval of the movement.

The basis of anti-establishment is the opposition of the conventional social, political, and economic principles of society. This is different from counterculture because that used artistic things rather then political movements. The term "fighting the man" was used by anti-establishment followers.

Why was there such a explosion of anti-establishment followers in last half the 1900s? It seems that a lot of teenagers, who were raised in luxury, were starting to see flaws in society. When the Vietnam War started they questioned why they were fighting it and what was the goal. This lead people to question almost every aspect of the government. One of their arguments was "Why do we spend millions on a foreign war and a space program when our schools are falling apart?" This lead sayings on both sides. The anti-establishment side had "make love, not war" and the more government oriented side had "America, love it or leave it." Their answer that they got (the saying) made them to think that the government is not going to change anything based on what they believe, so they started to dislike everything that the government put out. Hells Angles are an example of an anti-establishment group. After WWII veterans were coming back and felt a sense of emptiness while living in a suburan area. They wanted to fill the viod left by war, so they started gangs and did things, some violent, to help them cope.

The Beat Generation is a group of writers who opposed WWII and came to prominence in the 50's. Some aspects of this generation was experimentation with drugs, alternative forms of sexuality, an interest in Eastern religion, a rejection of materialism, and the idealizing of exuberant, unexpurgated means of expression and being.

"All great truths begin as blasphemies." //- George Bernard Shaw// Even thought Shaw wasn't a promenit figure for anti- establishment I think that this a good quote because it show that now a movement might crazy but when its over it might be a truth.

Why was there such a explosion of anti-establishment followers in last half the 1900s? It seems that a lot of teenagers, who were raised in luxury, were starting to see flaws in society. When the Vietnam War started they questioned why they were fighting it and what was the goal. This lead people to question almost every aspect of the government. One of their arguments was "Why do we spend millions on a foreign war and a space program when our schools are falling apart?" This lead sayings on both sides. The anti-establishment side had "make love, not war" and the more government oriented side had "America, love it or leave it." Their answer that they got (the saying) made them to think that the government is not going to change anything based on what they believe, so they started to dislike everything that the government put out. __Additional info__- Songs that are anti-establishment: -We're not gonna take it - Twisted Sister -Anarchy in the U.K. - Sex Pistols

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__**People Involved**__ Identify and explain the significance of at least 8 people involved in the movement. Be sure to identify at least 2 people from each quarter century.

1.Jerry Rubin- He ran mayor of Berkeley but lost, although this show that he wasn't just about wanting to fight the man, he wasnted to change thing politicly. He helped make the Youh International Party, or Yippies. He also organized the Vietnam Day Commettee and some protests against the Vietnam War. One of the more famous protests that he helped organize was one in 1967. He was asked "mobilize and direct a march on the Pentagon. When they got there things good ugly. By the time the group's 48-hour permit expired, approximately 680 protesters had been jailed and 50 hospitalized because a riot broke out.

2. Allen Ginsberg- He is most famous for his poem "Howl." This poem energized people when he read it to an audience in San Francisco. Some people said that the poem was especally vulgar because it depicted his relationship to other man and in the 50s homosexual acts were a crime in every U.S. state. A judge was quoted saying "Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"

Part of his poem- //"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by// //madness, starving hysterical naked,// //dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn// //looking for an angry fix..."//

3. John Lennon- Even though most of his songs were anti-war they still were used by numerous prostest groups. These protest groups in the 60s were mostly hippies and by being a hippie they were being anti-establsihmentst.

4.Ron Paul- He is called the "intellectual godfather of the Tea Party movement." The tea party is a libertarian movement that wants less government control, just like the anti-establishment idea. The tea party wants less taxation, which is why it is called the tea party, because during the colonial age the tea party was a movement for less taxation. This made me think of how that tea party was in a way anti-establishment. They wanted less Bratian control over them. Ron Paul is a libertarian, which is sort of like anti- establsihment. Libertariansts wants less government control because the individual should hold the power because their basic morals should suffice. This is another example of if you're not with them, you're against them.

5. Lenny Bruce- A comedian famous for is extremly obscene acts, he was not so much an anti-establishmentst politacly, but more on the culture side. He was arested numerous times for jsut saying a bad word. During that time that must have been extremly offensive to people, which is probably part of the reason he did it. The definition of anti-establishment is to oppose conventional social, political, or economic values or principle, and he was doing just that. Normal people did not swear as much as he did, so he did just for the sake of it not being accepted.

6. Malcolm X- HE thought that blacks should have equal rights, especially to vote because then they could elect officials to address theri needs. In a speech in 1964 he said that the African American community must take their rights by force, if necessary. He was assassinated 6 mouths before the Voting Rights Act of 1965, whic gave African Americans unhindered access to the polls.

7. Alice Echols- She lead a protest during a Miss America Pageant in 1968 saying that the media was portraying those women as mothing more then sexual objects. This helped the womens rigthts movement gain more attention nationwide.

8. Abbie Hoffman- Similar to Jerry Rubin, he helped create the Yippie movement. "We are disruption, we are hot" is what he said in one of his books explaining the Yippie movement. Their only goal is to do the opposite of what the social norm is. In one of his protests he and thousands of other people tried to levitate the Pentagon. Alsom they had a pig named "Pigasus" that was their presidential candidate. These radical people were a pain in the butt of America, which is exactly what they tried to do. "Weird'looking freaks that crawl out of the cracks in America's nightmare. Very visible and, as everyone knows, strainght from the white middle-class suburban life. (Hoffman pg. 76)"

Identify 3 people who worked against your movement. How did these people attempt to stop the forward progress of your cause.

1. The "Man"- This term can refer to any authority. It could be a manager of a company, or a warden in prison, or even a teacher. Anybody that had authory might have been called "The Man." It started in the 1950s, the same time anti-establishmentism sprang forth. This is normally quoted with "the man is keeping me down" or "stick it to the man"

2. Richard Nixon- He is only a person to work against the casue just because he was president when anti-establsihment started to spring up. Nixon target aduince to appeal to was the socially conservative, or the silent majority. This people disliked the hippie counter culture, and if you're not with them, then you're against them right?

3. The police- As with a lot of protests, thinks start to turn ugly and eventually a riot breaks out. Then, as always, the police step in. Anti'establishment is all about protests, because that is not the norm, and then you can see how they relate to riots. The police are always the ones who arest the protesters, try to stop them, and in some cases, use force to stop them. This is smilar to "The Man," even though the police is still authority, they are the ones that actually physiclly intervene.


 * I could not find that many individuals that opposed anti-establishment becasue it is such a broad topic. I could say that anybody from any other topic opposes anti-establishment becasue that certain movement was anti-estabishment during that time.

__**Connections**__ Elaborating on the point above, explain your role and connection 3 other social movements. This could relate to a sharing of leadership, goals, or other traits.

Anti- War- Relates becasue during that time many people opposed the war, and they were called hippies. This hippies tried to not be normal, which is what anti-establishment is all about. Some leadership similarities is John Lennon.

Civil Right- During the time of the civil rights movements African Americans didn't have that many rights. So to want more rights would be not the social norm. By thinking different they were going agaist the government. Malcolm X and Martian Luther King are some people that lead this movement.

Women Rights- Yet again, people were thinking that the way society is should change. This time women should have more right. And by not being what was socialy thought of normal during that time was being anti-establishment.

__**Present and Future**__ Explain where the movement stands today. Also, predict how the efforts of the movement today will impact American society and culture in 20 years.

Today an anti-establishment movement could be the Occupy Wall Street. Occupy Wall Street is a movement that is trying to"reclaim our humanity and our future." They started protesting in New York City. They think that through collective action changes can be made, what they want to do is to create more civic space. I think a way it will impact society in 20 years is when people look back at this it might give them courage to speak out and take action on what is bringing them down during that time. Also, the Tea Party is an example of a modern day political party that is against conventional government. I have more indormation on the Tea Party under Ron Paul.

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