May 1968 by Justin Dyer https://padlet.com/j_dyer20/yc65pwlmurbv By: Justin Dyer and Jermey Delgado en-us 2019-04-29 12:03:02 UTC 2019-04-30 11:47:30 UTC hello@padlet.com May 6, 1968 j_dyer20 https://padlet.com/j_dyer20/yc65pwlmurbv/wish/354966633
A riot breaks out between police and more than 5,000 university students in Paris. Within a week workers throughout France are staging sympathy strikes, threatening the economy.

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The United States and North Vietnam begin peace talks in Paris.

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Nine antiwar activists enter a Selective Service office in Catonsville, Maryland, remove nearly 400 files and burn them in the parking lot with homemade napalm. The example of the Catonsville Nine (later convicted of destruction of government property and sentenced to jail terms between 24 and 42 months) spurs some 300 similar raids on draft boards over the next four years.

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The Supreme Court rules 7-1 that burning a draft card is not an act of free speech protected by the First Amendment.

]]> 2019-04-29 12:15:26 UTC https://padlet.com/j_dyer20/yc65pwlmurbv/wish/354967702 May 13, 1968 j_delgado20 https://padlet.com/j_dyer20/yc65pwlmurbv/wish/354969038 Over a million people marched through Paris; the police stayed largely out of sight. Prime Minister Georges Pompidou personally announced the release of the prisoners and the reopening of the Sorbonne. Strikes didn't come down though. Protestors got even more infuriated. ]]> 2019-04-29 12:19:02 UTC https://padlet.com/j_dyer20/yc65pwlmurbv/wish/354969038 j_dyer20 https://padlet.com/j_dyer20/yc65pwlmurbv/wish/355377727 2019-04-30 11:45:47 UTC https://padlet.com/j_dyer20/yc65pwlmurbv/wish/355377727 j_dyer20 https://padlet.com/j_dyer20/yc65pwlmurbv/wish/355377965 2019-04-30 11:46:46 UTC https://padlet.com/j_dyer20/yc65pwlmurbv/wish/355377965 j_dyer20 https://padlet.com/j_dyer20/yc65pwlmurbv/wish/355378121 2019-04-30 11:47:30 UTC https://padlet.com/j_dyer20/yc65pwlmurbv/wish/355378121