Napalm And Tear Gas

Teach-ins. Marches. Occupying buildings. Tear gas. Clashes with cops. A firebombing or two. Turns out things tend to escalate when you’re trying to stop an unjust war… a war that you yourself could get drafted to fight in. The anti-Vietnam War protest movement at UW–Madison in the 1960s and 70s was nothing short of explosive! (That’s foreshadowing, by the way.)

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