Berkeley in the Sixties

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Summary: The 60s embalmed
Review: This movie is so imbued with nostalgia for the heyday of the new left that it seems to consign any notion of a radical politics to an unreclaimable past. To be watched by anyone who wants to know how NOT to make a political film. News flash to old hippes: the struggles against injustice were not a product of your youthful exuberance, and have not gone away because you (OK, we, I 'fess up) have gotten older and gone on to more staid pursuits. They existed before, and they continue today. To see Berkeley in the 60s as this film does, as 1) in isolation 2) as a moment gone, is to miss the point, that's it all one great big struggle that runs through the Haymarket Martyrsand Joe Hill, up to the WTO protests of today.