Paris 1968

Apathy sucks!

1968 was kind of a worldwide phenomenon. The protests took on a decidedly more violent and Marxist edge in France.

I love posters. You can say a lot with one image and one phrase. These are simple, and I think they are purposefully supposed to look "underground." I picked out some of my favorites. I'll translate them and explain where explanation is needed.

Factories, Universities, Union.

Civic Action; Fascist vermin

Ok this one needs explaining. The poster says "we are all undesirables." The man is Daniel Cohen-Bendt, and he was an instigator. He was decried as undesirable by the French government for being German and Jewish. I think he was kind of the French Abbie Hoffman.

A youth disturbed too often by the future

Support for the students against the establishment

My vertical blood. I love this one.

Power of the people
My favorite!! No to the bureaucracy.

Culture is dead.

Work together. The linked arms say Frenchman and Immigrant. Topical, no?

The worms of power must not be allowed to eat the fruit and destroy the garden.

Save the living first.

light salaries, heavy tanks.

OK thats all. Thats enough, right?

Well, I thought it was cool. Sorry for all the history lessons. Its kind of my thing.