I'd already taken my contact lenses out so that tear gas wouldn't get trapped behind them. We did puppy piles, where a lot of people would jump on those getting hit to protect each other. The new activism offers resemblances to the '60s beyond this familiar protest scenario. Politics also affects culture and personal lifestyle, an obvious '60s parallel. A lot of people I know listen to techno, ambient, and hip-hop music.
Rave culture is important to many students.
It's a huge, global influence. Singers like Ani Di Franco also inspire me. But while it's tempting to call Seattle et al. Unlike the '60s, for instance, she says many of the activists she knows personally have had the experience of working within the system and growing up under corporate culture. A lot of people I know who have become activists in the '80s and '90s have more experience in the system because of working inside some of these corporations.