Vietnam Then, Gaza Now: Bill Ayers & Juan González on 1968 and 2024 Antiwar Protests at Chicago DNC
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Support our work: democracynow.o...
The 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, taking place against the backdrop of an unpopular war opposed by a growing number of voters, carries echoes of the 1968 DNC in the same city, when police violently attacked protesters calling for an end to the war in Vietnam. Much of the police riot unfolded on live national television, showing police, members of the National Guard and U.S. Army soldiers brutally assaulting and arresting protesters, many of them students. After four days and nights, more than 650 people were arrested and more than 1,100 injured. We look back on the infamous 1968 DNC with Bill Ayers, longtime Chicago activist, author and founding member of the Weather Underground, and Democracy Now! co-host Juan González. Both of them were in Chicago to take part in the protests. "It was really an eye-opening period for all of us who attended, who were out in the streets," says González. "Chicago showed us what the crisis in the country was, the crisis of racism and white supremacy, the crisis of empire and war," adds Ayers.
Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.
Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.o...
I was a young mother who lived in a Chicago suburb. Mayor Daley's action was horrific. I know this event along with many others have made me the protester I was then and am still. I am 86 now and live in Athens Ohio and support the young people with my money. Don't give up.
Love to you
💌from 65 vo in Dover, Ohio...moved from Chicago last year🗽✊✊🏽✊🏻✊🏾✊🏼✊🏿🎈
Inspirational 🖖
Fascism then, fascism now
Ho wasn't a terrorist
non-thinking but violent to silence THINKERS.
@@ubroc
Please clarify what you are referring to?
America can’t sustain without wars, Scot Ritter
7:15 ~ Is it merely coincidental that both parties are STILL hapless parties that won’t do anything for the American people?
Yeah but one is openly running on a fascist agenda.
BIIIIIG difference
Why do the usurpers that reside in the USA incorrectly referred to as { the Americans } expect anything good from there political leaders and the structure of the government by the Framers of the government then and now .
Mostly men who came from wealth , received an exceptional education and some owned enslaved people from Africa and had gained resources by eliminating or displacing the humans that had possessed the very earth they stood on .
And there declaration to sever the country that facilitated there voyage across an ocean to claim the valuable resources of a pristine land . And they had no deed to these lands , they were taken by deadly force .
These pale men from England realizing that they could own and exploit these fertile lands and rivers , lakes and coastlines if they could govern without interference from England they would declare there independence with this statement or notice to England that reads …..
We hold these truths to be self - evident that all MEN are created equal … … STOP 🛑.
Who were the last people allowed to vote in the USA .
Woman were not allowed to vote until 1919 . And coincidentally it was the 19th Amendment.
Yes I was born in USA . I am a man . I would rather be governed by what’s left of the Native American tribe that once possessed the land and house I dwell in and pay my taxes to them .
No the left was captured by 3 letters
I don’t believe in coincidence….
@@sheriluke9950~ Then this must be by design, no?
Heroic people change the course of history in the right direction!!
The wrong direction
Well where are they now in the campus
@@jameskozy7254
?????
What do you think the right direction is? Please explain your reasoning, not very clear.
@@sheriluke9950 The direction President Trump is taking us. Ayers is a radical. The beginning of the curse on America.
OMG what a fascinating discussion that was,big respect from across the pond,free Palestine
This is DN at it's best, tying in people power and history!
Don’t forget the student labor uprising in Paris and across France in May of 1968.
Mexico city as well
And here in Germany,
In france mai 68 was a farce and then daniel cohn bendit rose as a revolutionary star. He went to South America to “help” the revolution and being the companion of che guevara, in fact he was the hameçon who attracted him to be killed.
Solidarity with the working class marching for peace. We were on the right side of history then and we are now.
✊️Solidarity✊️
💯💪
If you are supporting terrorists who want to rule israel as Islamst supremetists then you are on the wrong side f history.
You guys are literally highlighting a guy who celebrated the man who assassinated Robert Kennedy.
Yep 💯!!!
Shameful that we don’t have the attention of the American people in this time period because we really need some heroes that are fearless to stand up for the people
You are such rebels at democracy now! I love it ! ❤ Keep it up ! ❤
they are not rebels but fools.
Loved this report. Many people think that this is a comparison between Vietnam and Gaza. This is a story about how Chicago stands up against oppression and speaks the truth. People place differences aside and stand in solidarity against authority and oppression. So cool Chicago. I hope that your protest are peaceful and you are all safe.
When asked about 2020 protest/riot pelosi said "WELL,people do what they do"fingers crossed
Racist, colonial, imperialist, brutal capitalism has not chsnged since 1492 here on the American continent and all over, Istael revolting, sickening...F the 2 party corporate lie.
Many ignorant or racists do. Israel was the one attacked and the only victim here
Disgusting whats happening in Gazza those poor palistinians
At 18, I remember the "whole world is watching"! I was at protests here in California. At 75 I'm having to do it again.
Bravo to you ❣️❣️❣️
👍🥰
Don't forget Nigeria Civil War. 1967. Don't forget their war was Televised Also.
Biafran Wars
The flag of Greece was carried by the Greek Nigerian who plays basketball in America. 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
Divest from US electoral politics. Be political in community. The Empire will never allow us to vote our way to Liberation. Voting every 4 years - never has less of us been asked. Since when does giving nothing get us something?
Yes. But many have been brainwashed(all right, 'conditioned')to think this is somehow OK....that it's all we get and all we should(can)expect. Please add to your statement to let folks know it's UP TO US...not just to 'protest' what we must, but to organize ourselves around our values, based on mutual aid.
Well said and explained!
News flash !
We do not live in a democracy. Get it right !
No, but Democracy is a tool we use to make our republic what we want it to be.
We live in a plutocracy. The power of the wealthy
@@rocioaguilera3555 right, so vote for the uniparty
@@nancymcmonarch Wow you agree and then contradict yourself... You can't change anything when both parties work for the same people.. It's not a Democracy but then changes when you vote - that's WHY it isn't dummy. Nothing has changed in 60 years in fact it's WORSE... Idiots voting for mass murderers... Go vote for your favorite murderer & celebrate democracy...
As a Jr High student all these trials, assassinations, protests, war, oppression, impacted me my whole lufe now at 68. Baton partially passed to young ‘uns
lol, the indoctrinated undeveloped minds, albeit rainmans, often get Trapped in it.
Good to see Dick Gregory addressing the crowd as one of the speakers at the rally. RIP Dick Gregory!
We are seeing the Mideast version of the Golf of Tonkin between Israel, America &Iran.
I was in Chicago visiting my Grandmother in 1968. I was only 11 but I remember the tension. My grandmother despised Richard Daley..
Facists then, Fascists now in Chicago. One party not allowing their voters to decide, they do not seem to believe in democracy.
Your Grandmother was a smart woman
Memories still sadden me … too many assignations before I graduated HS ! It’s likely when I became a political junkie 🇺🇸💙
Same. 1968 was the year I became an adult. At age 11 😭
@@laurensargent9471I was 21 in 1968. I was a campus activist at the University of Denver, and it was the first year I got to vote.
I 'm currently in the Jill Stein camp. She is the only candidate for peace!!!!
She's a puppet for the Kremlin.
She's a candidate for what ?
@@unixux Fpr President of the United States. Never heard of her? Guess why!
@@dianarichardson2855 probably because she’s completely, utterly irrelevant. She is not “running” in any sense of the word, her last claim to fame was sucking up to Putin a decade or so ago
Its fine to like Ms. Stein, its fine to support her but don't waste your vote, too much is at stake!
vote Jill Stein 🍉🌿
Yeah we love trump and Project 2025. Who would want to vote for the most progressive major party candidate in history.
@@ubroc how do you go from anti-genocide to must be a trump supporter? Wake up. If progressive can't even call for an arms embargo and humanitarian aid how progressive are they? I'm not in a swing state so yes casting a protest vote to send the "progressives" a message is how I'm keeping my sanity this election. If I were in a swing state I'd be voting for her despite the party's moral failings. Progressive would be calling out genocide and funding schools not bombing them.
CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC ALWAYS..................
The traitor who violated the constitution, plans to throw out the constitution, got unconstitutional immunity from a partisan court compromised by bribes, is not qualified to be on the ballot. He stole classified documents, disseminated them illegally, organized an insurrection, incited a violent mob to attack the capital and stop the count of electors, organized fake electors. His crimes make him unqualified, he can not get a security clearance, Take Him Off the Ballot.
Yes , this Democrat POLLING DAILY in California, TRUMP is getting MASSIVE SUPPORT
Yes. Change the name to Constutional Republic NOW ! That way we don't have to mention that dirty word, Democracy.
Correct, and the Constitution of this republic created a Liberal Democracy.
Pure democracy would be where everyone gets to vote on all issues currently we don't have that we have representation of which I don't want any of these people running reping for me .
💯💯💯
It may not be exactly like the '68 protests, but it is similar. I just hope harris doesn't make the same mistakes the DNC made then.
Yes! We hope Harris won’t make the same mistake! She is the lesser of two evils. We are not going back! We must learn the lessons from the past, and not repeat The slaughter!
Not even remotely the same.
She already is. Chastised protesters for peace at her rally in Detroit.
The Democratic Party is not better yet. The Neocons and the Lobby rule. As here in Germany. There is no hope for change.
Went off without a hitch
Respect both dudes. Free Palestine and Leonard Peltier. Add Scott Ritter, Tulsi and Ruchard Medhurst etc!!
Chicago 🔥
Mr. Seale should be honored and interview more often. Our Children should know more about the Vietnam war and era.
Lady liberty won't stop weeping.
She's watched her people's arms used to exterminate 40 thousand souls in the 9th Major Crusade.
That's right we protest against Vietnam .
I hope they're seen and heard by any means necessary. We must make it clear to the world that what's happening in Gaza is not okay.
Your party loves war.
Way beyond 'not okay' It is horrific! We (Americans)have blood all over our hands, even though we oppose this. Which is why we must speak out and march!
Absolute legends, thank you for leading the way of change!
What did they change?
@@chefpontius6816 Lol. 🤡
@@chefpontius6816 my views and perspectives. At least.
@@chefpontius6816 they helped end the war in Vietnam
Much post mortem suggesting that Humphrey would have won had he not broken with LBJ over Vietnam before the convention. Kamala making a terrible choice.
Siding with hamas is political suicide
It is 100% wrong to compare Vietnam and Gaza. Someone who compares the two is either completely ignorant of history or raises such a false argument for personal gain and tells such an obvious lie. Informed people will not be deceived
Both wars built on lies and the barbarism of civilians
how easily u slip into the US state propaganda, did u have any ideological reasons for thinking about vietnam back then?
U R INDOCTRINATED 😂
Is comparing the student protest at Columbia University and across the nation unreasonable?
You’re gonna have to explain that
Because I can draw a parallel very easily
And tell me the parallel does not exist. Well explain yourself.
@@JohnHunterPlayerrhamas are terrorists who started the war, the Vietnamese are not. Pretty simple.
Thank you !
Blast from my Past! Thanks.
Gentlemen you don't understand at all about these wars though , I am vietnamese and was in south military , there big difference and you must lie down think of as you compared.
You're commenting on a leftist platform, they don't understand the difference.
My family ran away from Vietnam too after American left Viet congs were evil.
Nothing democratic about them
Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't want ceasefire, he is the big road block!!! Perhaps he has something to do with that Hamas attacked (8 hours delay to send help to the Jewish victims. They have the most advance weapon from America)! Don't attack me, just my opinion!
DEPENDING ON WHAT THE GAIN IS ; HISTORY WILL REPEAT ITSELF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vietnam was our war , Gaza is Israels . The difference is they will do what it takes to win theirs.
The same stupid idea- "stop Communism from encroaching." Stupid . . . Stupid.
Thank you for this don't for forget 1967 1968
The bots and lost conservatives in the comments lately is unreal
I wonder what the resl resons were for LBJ not to seek a second term. It seems like he wanted the presidency real bad.
Were there protests during the Republican Convention in 1968?
VIETNAM WAR? ASK DEMOCRATS ABOUT THAT " LBJ PUT US THERE!!"
Bill Ayers... LOL
LBJ did not "put us there." He kept us there. Just like the REPUBLICAN who kept the war going and extended it to other countries. That was Nixon. A Republican. Put down your party worship and pick up a history book.
How old do you think we are 😂
HOW OLD ARE YOU?!?
💀
LBJ wanted to get rich along with his friends and the CIA. LBJ hated JFK so much that he could hardly control himself. The CIA and the rest of the Military Industrial Complex tried to get us involved in a war in Cuba, the Bay of Pigs, which failed. JFK was Killed in November 1963, no doubt by the CIA and the Military Industrial Complex, LBJ, and on August 2, 1964, the Gulf of Tonkin was fabricated, and the expansion of the Vietnam Conflict to War!
Yes, the Dems and LBJ. WILLSON WW 1, ROOSEVELT WW2, TRUMAN KOREA.
Now Ukraine = then Vietnam, same thing, warmongers supporting and backing warmongers, no difference
Guess was in charge of those police! Same as today! Democrats
Long live Bobby Seale
This guy is one of the absolute worst. The reason we're in this mess
WHAT GUY?
Free Palestine!
Freedom eh? Where is it?
I didn't see Joe bad Biden
Many people say an AIPAC billionaire is giving him an "ice cream cone".
7:16 How right he was! How right he is!
Save it darling the only thing you have to look forward to is going into outer darkness away from man and God forever
I went to Progressive Bank Street College of Education with Bill Ayers. We were in some classes together
❤❤❤
Where were you in 1933?
Brave men.
Such an insult to Vietnam and the Viet Minh and Viet Cong to compare them to Hamas and Gaza, like how far from reality do you have to be.
It's pretty sick. A lot of Americans died in Vietnam and Vietnamese too.Due to the communist.
I do not believe that they are comparing people, I believe it has to do with comparisons as to how these wars started.
Both are uprisings by an indigenous population attempting to regain freedom from an occupying Colonial force. The comparison is accurate.
@@jayleeper1512 no it’s not. Gaza wasn’t occupied by the IDF, it was run by Hamas. And the Viet Minh didn’t do medieval style rape and pillage attacks on French people. It’s an insult to the Viet Minh to compare them to Hamas. Also Gaza isn’t a colony of Israel like Vietnam was to the French.
@@1984isnotamanual You are a lying for the zionist regime. you are talking about yourselves.
Democracy is in the Land 💯
Protest Should not be Ban🪧
Peace and Prosperity for the World 🕊️🌎🤞✌️🗳️💯👀
Right of Freedom Should be Respect 🫡⚖️
Dialogue and Negotiations should Prevail 🗳️👀
Stop the madness of Genocide
Taxpayers Deserve Protest 🪧 Right
Tine to choose the worldwide socialist party.
What is sad is to see that Ukraine is helped, for our government is legal that they enter and bombard Russia, can the Palestinians have the same rights??? and why not???
I thought I saw 'star' symbols on the police cars and their helmets
vote for the uniparty, or the ones who have zero chance, which continues the uniparty
I'm curious what the red star is on Bill's lapel.
Does anyone else find Goodman annoying as hell?
Then over 20 years after The Nakba (“Palestine catastrophe”), 1968 marked when the ‘middle class’ politics vocalized its experienced pain radiating from our post WWII blossoming empire ambitions in French southeast asia. Another 7 years until the Vietnam ‘Conflict’ ended on April 30, 1975, when North Vietnamese tanks entered the Presidential Palace in Saigon, marking the fall of South Vietnam to the PAVN. 🐑
FREE Palestine. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
God Bless Israel 🇮🇱
Free Palestine from Hamas!! ❗
there are already 42 Islamic nations who won't take the Palestinian trash.
@@user-wh9vy2fx8y Go. To. Hell.
@@ErnestPLipshitz I hope both sides have fun
Democracy is a messy buisness that some politically motivated peoples want to seek the limits of tolerance. Always consider motivations, of all involved and then suspect your own. These are consequential times and we all have to come to terms with the fact that our leaders define who we are. Where there is hope there are prayers, where there is retribution there is hate. America is a hopeful nation, we not only dream we actuate humanism and rise to greatness. Make Americans Great Again and be better Global citizens and embrace your neighbors with respect. Listen for hope...hear joy...and don't be moved to hate, vitriol or one man's revenge, it is not your civil war it is your civil duty to compromise.
TRUMP 2024 -- Western Civilization is on the ballot !!!!
Trump's besties with Netanyahu.
Yes, perhaps it might arrive there one day.
Trump bends to the knee of Israel.
True! And the entire racist Nazi party of tRump wants it to end.
Vote against genocide and fascism!
Stein/Ware 2024! Green Party for all other elected offices 2024!
@@CRAIGC55 YES JUST LIKE THE DEMOCRATS.
Voting Trump for resolving the mess by the world leaders have respect him . God bless America 🇺🇸
Trump has always allowed and encouraged the police to batter and destroy protests! He is pro war! How can you be such an idiot?!
@@Max-vi9is if liberals wanted peace there would be peace. If Conservatives wanted war there would be no liberals. Try to remember that.
Leaders literally laughed at him every time he showed up to things. He’s an incompetent joke who sold us out to Russia
2024 is not 1968. Vietnam was a 20 years ill fated war. Gaza is less than a year. No comparison at all.
Short term memory or wildly uninformed if you think Gaza is only a year.
Less than a year? Israel has been brutalizing the Palestinians since decades before the war in Vietnam.
Arab-Israeli conflict started back in 1948
Christenasmalls6118 The USA has funded the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank for 75 years to the tune of many many billions of dollars and are still sending billions and weapons to I_ra_el. We are NOT ONLY talking about 1 million displaced people this past year, 40,000 people murdered, 1/2 of them children, and thousands more injured, severed limbs, blinded, etc. We are talking about the ways they have been forced to live for 75 years!!! Unable to move freely, unable to control their own electricity, water and food. The many thousands of "hostages" read prisoners held in Is___i prisons, many raped, tortured, many children imprisoned for NO reason. So it isn't just one year. Don't compare the two in that way!!!!!
Gaza has gone on for 75 years with the USA and the West. What the he'll are you talking about. How many times has Gaza been rebuilt? Get your facts right before you poot your stupid comment.
Let He who is without sin cast the first stone.
WHO CARE WHOS IS HARRISE?
How is what was said at that march any different than what took place on Jan 6th?
Being young is passing off Tom Hayden as a liberal being old is realizing this guy actauly a solid strategist and we should have listened.
Dood I was youndlg and angry and just wanted to take a wrench to a tractor
TRUMP2024!!!
2024 weeks in prison!!! 🥳🥳🥳
@@nancymcmonarch How about Emperor of the New American Empire.
@@chefpontius6816 Maybe they'll give him a job supervising the prison laundry room.
@@nancymcmonarch you'll get him this time 😆 🤣
@@chefpontius6816 It's not up to me.
Ayres blew up the university of Wisconsin why did everyone forget this?
Ayers is nothing but a Commie agitator and professional revolutionary. His lifetime accomplishments? Zero
@@LiamLynch1917 Jealous?
Oh my goodness she's so old and still on TV UGH,UGH😮
Thank you 🙏
13:50 Anti-voting gets you authoritarianism.
No. its who rund the show.
Capitalism, Bill: its Capitalism.
Comparing Vietnam, a war the US was involved in. To Gaza a terrorist operation the US isn't involved in.
That's where we are today. Apples and oranges.
Vietnam was an operation in terror, anyone sprayed with herbicides and suffer from those actions know it was a terrorist action.
Under what rock are you still living? Such an embarrassment to throw a comment like yours.
How can you say the US 'isn't involved' in an 'operation', as you call it, which is largely financed by US taxpayer dollars? Not to mention actual bombs and other weapons support.
Both are wars of independence from colonial rule and military occupation by American puppets, 100% directed and funded by the US. They are the same. Just like Vietnam, there are currently American boots on the ground behind the scenes that will soon be a major military force of American soldiers. Gaza and Mi Lai are the same.
The US is paying for it. Are you deaf, dumb and blind???
flimsy historical parallel. 68 was a different world
❤❤
The empire it's a vampire!
RFK was to win JFKMLKillersame "bul-let "could not allow truth of
Bill Ayers is an operative / 3 letters
Trump 2024!!!!
when is bill ayers going to die ??
(Stop)”🗳️💙Free🇺🇸from AlPAC. End the🇨🇺🇰🇵embargo. Go neutral or open allyship, tourism and trade with🇨🇺🇰🇵🇻🇳🙏🏼. Support unions and worker co-ops.🇵🇸Ⓐ🏳️🌈☆☭🏳️⚧️” (censoring us!)
Go take your 2SLGBTQIA++ 🍑 to Pyongyang or Gaza and enjoy your freedom 🙌🏿™️
Why does DN support the Democratic Party?
DN does not 'support the Democratic Party' . Rather, DN supports the People in our ongoing quest for freedom an equity for ALL. Listen and you will hear that, perhaps!
@@dianarichardson2855 DN is an Orwellian operation. It pushes a radical left agenda. If it criticizes the Democratic Party, DN believes it is not far-left enough.
President Trump kept us all safe by Preventing Wars.
How many Americans died from Covid? Dear Leader didn't keep those people safe. Stop lying.
HE WAS INVOLVED IN MURDERING PALESTINIAN JOURNALISTS AND MORE.
And nothing has changed. The results of nonviolence.
cia coup
you guys gonna pay for your sin
No mention of RFKJR now running a promising campain? of coarse not.
Lol.
🇵🇸