Beauty is in the Street Audiobook Libro.fm

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In postwar Europe protest was everywhere On both sides of the Iron Curtain from Paris to Prague Milan to Wroclaw ordinary people took to the streets fighting for a better world Their efforts came to a head most dramatically in 1968 and 1989 when mass movements swept Europe and rewrote its history

In the decades between Joachim C Hberlen argues new movements emerged that transformed the nature of protesting Activism moved beyond traditional demonstrations from squatting to staging happenings and camping out at nuclear power plants People protested in the way they dressed the music they listened to the lovers they slept with the clubs where they danced all night New movements were born notably antiracism womens liberation gay liberation and environmentalism And protest turned inward as activists experimented with new ways of living and feeling from communes to group therapy in their efforts to live a better life in the here and now

Some of these struggles succeeded others failed But successful or not their history provides a glimpse into roads not taken into futures that did not happen The stories in Hberlens book invite us to imagine different futures to struggle to fail and to try again In a time when we are told that there are no alternatives they show us that there could be another way

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