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La Lutte Continue…The Struggle Continues …Lotta Continua…La Lucha Continúa…
Exhibition Dates: April 29–May 26, 2018
Opening: Sunday, April 29, 6-8pm
May '68 Propaganda Party: Sunday, April 29, 2-6pm
An exhibition and event series about the 50-year-legacy of the global uprisings in 1968.
1968 was a time of explosive global protest. May ’68 might be synonymous with the general strike in France and the Situationists who inspired it, but mass uprisings and occupations that year reached every corner of the globe, with millions of people rising up to build power in pursuit of liberation on their own terms. The events of 1968 represent one of the last major instances of truly global protest. In the immediate aftermath, political structures and social relations transformed, and the uprisings’ successes and failures prompted, informed, and bolstered burgeoning feminist, LBGTQ, anti-colonial, and Black Power movements. Key tactics of liberation—and repression—were developed and shared in this period; fifty years on, the traces of 1968 remain visible in the battles still being fought today. 1968 speaks to the power of utopian visions to spur radical action, and to the necessity of reimagining what is possible. Visit our website for more information.
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