Offshoot Of The Women's Inauguration March Thread

[AGBF]

This is an offshoot of the women's inauguration march thread. While I was participating in that thread I started rooting around looking for information about a specific women's march on the Pentagon that I took part in in 1971. Doing so led me to this film, part of a six-segment documentary about the 1960's This brought back a lot of memories and I wanted to share it here. It is really replete with things that sent me back into the 1960's and 1970's.

Link...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wJlao3vJNY

Deb/AGBF

 

[ksinger]

Excellent footage Deb, thank you for digging it up.

I was young, but I remember quite a bit of stuff from this era. I was too young for activism of course, and my mother was very non-political, but she and my father divorced when I was very young - smack dab in the middle of the 60s. You know how rare divorce was back then and the stigma on the "divorcee". Considering the mores of the time, It was a crazy brave move on her part. She may not have been overtly political, but kids absorb stuff from their environment, meaning, somehow I must have figured out early, that she was a feminist, and quietly approved of the actions that being done by women at the time. My mother was not an a person of overt daring, but she was a person who pondered deeply and had very definite thoroughly thought out positions on things. We became more than simply mother and daughter later in our lives. We became deep friends, and talked about often about life, the universe, and everything. I definitely got the impression from those frank discussions, that had she not had me to consider and raise, she might have been out there marching, or lending support to the efforts.

I'll always credit my mother with allowing me the freedom of my own mind and respecting my thoughts, even as a very young child. She would ask me what I thought, and then actually would be quiet and allow me to tell her without attempting to force me into thinking thoughts she wanted me to think. She taught me how to think, not what to think. She used to say, "You have a brain, use it!"

Wow. How did this become an ode to my mom? (She would have turned 80 last year - how the years do fly!) Maybe the styles of that video, or the stupid hour I'm writing this? Missing her maybe? But then I miss her every day. I'm glad she can't see the destruction going on right now though. It would have been hard on such a sensitive person as she was.

Anyway, thanks again for the video.

 

[monarch64]

Ksinger, I really appreciate your post.

 

[monarch64]

1975: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Icelandic_women's_strike

 

[ksinger]

Ksinger, I really appreciate your post.

Thanks Monnie. And sorry for all the typos and syntax weirdness. I was on here because insomnia struck. I was awake, but apparently, not quite as much as I thought.

And I love love LOVE your link about the Icelandic Women's Strike!

 

[missy]

1975: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Icelandic_women's_strike