Youth everywhere is venting its dissatisfaction with society through more or less respectable political means. We saw it in England, and then in France and the U.S., with the rise and fall of the peace movement.
Pleading gets to be a bore after a while.
Aimed primarily at television, the marches should be shown on the Late Show with the other old movies. We see recuperation being purposefully perfected in America. When they return to the States they spend their summers in the South or in northern ghettoes killing the poor with kindness. Then, since their devastating altruism knows no bounds, these children will walk a picket line in a trade union strike, mouthing incoherencies about restructuring the world through economism. From the start they have seen their revolt against the university hierarchy as a revolt against the whole hierarchical system , the dictatorship of the economy and the State.