The spread of long hair and the peace symbol were part and parcel and an indispensable part of what made the Sixties the Sixties. It is impossible to imagine the Sixties without that whole panoply of forms of resistance, symbolic and material. (This was reflected as well in the music and the arts and so on.)
They were part of a society-wide reaction against the government and its policies and the larger zeitgeist of the 1950s American century.
There needs to be a society-wide sized repudiation of this government (and not just the Bush White House). We have virtually the entire leadership class in this country against us – public officials and mass media. They are not - they have already demonstrated this - going to do what should be done without being confronted with a social situation in which they are risking, by continuing to refuse to hold the Bush regime accountable, the possibility of tremendous social upheaval and even the possibility of something like a revolutionary situation.
What is such a society-wide repudiation going to look like? It’s got to adopt a visible form in daily life on an endemic level in which millions, at least 1% of the population (3 million people) are in visible resistance, with their manifest stand and actions reflecting the most advanced and cutting edge of majority sentiment, the iceberg above water.
Wearing and spreading orange daily provides a crucial concrete manifestation of that society-wide repudiation.
Wear it. Spread it.
