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The world feels tense right now, and not for the first time. Future generations will one day look back on this time as highly pressurized and marked by volatility. Amongst the rising tensions in the U.S. and beyond, it can sometimes feel like we\u2019re regressing to a time before our ancestors fought for their rights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, those ancestors can teach us a thing or two about remaining firm in demanding our liberties. From tumultuous moments and active figures in our history, we can gain the tools and perspective needed to work toward a better future. And one era feels particularly relevant: the 1960s and 70s, when Americans opposed the Vietnam War, embraced rising subcultures, and witnessed the government declare its war on drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rising Tensions and the War on Drugs<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ask anyone who lived through it, and they\u2019ll probably tell you that the \u201860s were a powerful time: socially, culturally, and politically. The Civil Rights Movement was in full swing, public protests against the Vietnam War were ongoing, and countercultures were growing. Media about this era\u2019s civil unrest feels eerily familiar to the present-day energy across the globe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As subcultures and political groups like the hippies, the Freak Scene, the Chicano Movement, and the Black Panthers gained strength, activism rose. A new culture began to take hold, rooted in speaking truth to power, rejecting authority, and questioning government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The U.S. government began to lose the trust of its citizens.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At the same time, marijuana and psychedelics were gaining popularity across the country. In 1971, amidst unrest across the country, Nixon declared an official \u201cwar on drugs.\u201d And although the government has long used drugs to target specific communities, Nixon\u2019s declaration of drugs as \u201cpublic enemy number one\u201d introduced a new level of stigma, legally enforceable and built on longstanding prejudice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Decades later, Nixon\u2019s former domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman<\/a> revealed the motives behind the movement in an interview with journalist Dan Baum: \u201cThe Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I\u2019m saying? We knew we couldn\u2019t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.<\/span>\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Nixon\u2019s war was, in other words, a last-ditch effort to shut down anti-war activists and shift the country\u2019s anger away from the government and toward a new villain: Black and Brown Americans. <\/span>To this day, we don\u2019t know how many people are in jail for cannabis offenses<\/a>, though some rough estimates are as high as <\/span>32,000<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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No Kings Protest in Denver, CO, 2025 | Photo by Brooke Austin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here we are more than 50 years later, still feeling its impacts.\u00a0 Stduents were arrested for engaging in pro-Palestinian demonstrations on college campuses in 2025 (despite constitutional protection from the First Amendment).\u00a0 And in 2026, the Trump administration has elevated persecution from multiple directions: sending the National Guard to combat protestors and simultaneously deploying Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) across the country. <\/span><\/p>\n

As of February 2026, an estimated 68,289 individuals are held in detention by ICE, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse<\/a> (TRAC). Given that approximately 74% of those individuals have no criminal conviction on record (about 50,500 individuals), these detainments don’t appear to be driven by legal motives. Instead, ICE’s actions seem to be largely motivated by racial profiling against communities of Latin American heritage, amongst other non-white communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

READ MORE: First They Came For The Migrants: Confronting the Decay of the American Dream<\/a><\/h4>\n

But if United States lawmakers are building on ancient foundation, we can too \u2014 and we can start by looking to the revolutionaries who fought back decades ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

What Can We Learn From Our Activist Ancestors?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Countless acts of defiance define the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War era. The following activists are just four examples of how individuals challenges authority and redefined what protest could look like.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Teach-Ins Prove The Power In Sharing Knowledge\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In March 1965, fifty-eight University of Michigan professors<\/a> pulled an all-nighter to stage an experiment in activism: an open forum on the Vietnam War. Students, journalists, activists, and curious community members crowded in to debate, swap stories, and hear guest lecturers unpack the conflict in ways the mainstream media never would. Within these teach-ins, classrooms became incubators for grassroots intellectual resistance, and young people started to recognize their place in democracy.<\/span>
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What can we learn? <\/b>Classrooms can be catalysts for change, and curious conversation is a powerful tool that cannot be taken away from communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Abbie Hoffman Teaches Us To Leverage Absurdity\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Abbie Hoffman\u2019s protest performance art threw fistfuls of dollars on the NYSE Trading Floor and nominated a 145-pound pig named Pigasus for President. In fact, it was his counter-conventions and radical outlandishness that found him at the center of one of the most famous court cases in American history, the trial of the Chicago 7<\/a>.\u00a0 Hoffman\u2019s satirical clownery caught anger from authority \u2014 and the primetime spot on the evening news countless times. As a result, protest for civil rights was always at the forefront of the American hive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What can we learn? <\/b>Spectacle and satire can be just as impactful as speeches or marches in challenging authority and keeping injustice in the public eye.<\/span><\/p>\n

David Halberstam, Catherine Leroy, and The Journalists Who Teach Us To Tell The Truth<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Journalists like David Halberstam<\/a> and Catherine Leroy<\/a> covered the Vietnam War with unflinching truth: exposing lies, missteps, and the human cost of combat. Halberstam\u2019s investigative reporting for <\/span>The New York Times<\/span><\/i> exposed the gap between U.S. government claims and reality. Leroy\u2019s frontline photography captured the raw brutality of the war, making it impossible for the public to ignore the human consequences of the conflict. Together with other journalists, their fearless truthtelling eroded public confidence in official strategy and governance, contributing directly to the rise of anti war activism, influencing policy debates, and establishing the standards for modern investigative journalism.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What can we learn? <\/b>Speaking truth can expose what others try to hide and help turn outrage into action.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Chicano Movement\u2019s East L.A. Walkouts Show the Power of Collective Action\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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In 1968, thousands of Mexican American high schoolers<\/a> in East Los Angeles walked out of their classrooms and onto the streets, demanding an end to overcrowded schools, discriminatory tracking, and the erasure of their culture from the curriculum. Their bold defiance, known as the \u201cBlowouts,\u201d landed student leaders in handcuffs and landed their struggles in national headlines. By refusing to stay silent, these teenagers pushed Chicano identity and educational justice to the center of America\u2019s civil rights conversation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What can we learn? <\/b>Collective courage and community action can force institutions to pay attention.<\/span><\/p>\n

Each of these moments show that resistance doesn\u2019t have a single shape: it appears in classroom debates, flashes of satire, unflinching reporting, mass walkouts, and any other brave act of protest that forces authority to pay attention. Together, they remind us that dissent, when voiced with conviction, has the power to reshape society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While this ending may feel as naively optimistic as the beginning, as we face our own era of unrest, their example offers a reminder that change is possible, and it starts with remembering our power and refusing to stay silent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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