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12-13-2003, 01:04 AM
Believing in America (http://bostonreview.net/BR28.6/marx.html)

"Within the United States the international Sixties rebellion was mounted by a loose coalition of the disaffected—“students, pacifists, draft resisters, black militants, Mexican farm workers, welfare mothers, frustrated suburban housewives, reservation Indians, penetentiary inmates, hippies from the California beaches and the Western wilderness, and bored workers on General Motors assembly lines”—Americans who felt victimized by the “power structure” or “military industrial complex.” All of these angry, frustrated groups briefly came together in that unwieldy, intermittently unified, dissident coalition known as “The Movement.”