Four months later: the anti-Woodstock: Altamont

1. Four months later: the anti-Woodstock: Altamont • A major concert held in December 1969 at Altamont Speedway marred by extreme drug use and violence • Hell’s Angels, a motorcycle gang, was hired to perform security. • The event was so ugly that The Grateful Dead, one of its main organizers, would not take the stage to play. • For many, it soured them on the 1960s counterculture • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qTKsylrpsg • “This moment and the Manson murders are about the time where the peace and love generation came crumbling down - we had experienced the highs of the drug scene and now the horrors of it began unfolding - reality.”

2. Symbol of the Dark Side-Charles Manson • This dark side was epitomized in the summer of 1969 when the Charles Manson family committed a series of grisly murders in the southern California. • The murders received huge media attention and became associated in many people’s minds with communal living and the excesses of the “alternative” lifestyle.

3. 1970s-Crime skyrockets (started in the 1960s)

4. Divorce rates shoot up

5. So does the prison population

6. Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, published in 1962, it warned of the harm pesticides and other chemicals were doing to the environment.aarson’sSilent Spring

7. Executive Privilege • Executive privilegeis the power of the President of the United States and other members of the executive branch of the United States Government to resist certain subpoenas and other interventions by the legislative and judicial branches of government in pursuit of information or personnel relating to confidential communications that would impair governmental functions. The power of Congress or the federal courts to obtain such information is not mentioned explicitly in the United States Constitution, nor is there any explicit mention in the Constitution of an executive privilege to resist such requests from Congress or courts.The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled this privilege may qualify as an element of the separation of powers doctrine, derived from the supremacy of the executive branch in its own area of Constitutional activity.[2]

8. 1970 • April 22 First Earth DayMillions participate. Birth of modern environmental movement. • May 4 Kent State Killingsinspires CSNY’s “Four Dead in Ohio” • Rock-Opera “Jesus Christ Superstar” released. Briefly banned in Britain. Becomes the best-selling album of 1971.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqoeM18vCaU

9. Earth Day and the Environmental Movement • https://www.earthday.org/about/the-history-of-earth-day/

10. 1971 • June Nixon announces the War on Drugs • September, 42 inmates and prison guards die during at revolt at Attica Prison in New York • October: Duane Allman, 24, of the Allman Brothers Band dies in a motorcycle accident

11. 1972 • February Richard Nixon arrives in China, beginning the reestablishment of diplomatic relations after more than 20 years • June Five men with ties to the Nixon reelection campaign break into the offices of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate building in D.C. • November Richard Nixon is re-elected president in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern February

12. JanuaryRoe v. Wade The U.S. Supreme Court legalizes abortion based on a woman’s right to privacy September 11 With the approval of the U.S. rightwing military officers overthrow the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile 1973

13. The “Other September 11” 9/11/73 U.S. backs violent overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende

14. Salvador Allende Gossens, president of Chile November 1970-September 1973

15. 1970 Allende wins a three-way race for president with 36% of the popular vote.

16. Chile

19. Allende commits suicide9/11/73

20. Thousands of people imprisoned in the National Stadium.

21. Victor Jara, singer, political activist Jara was taken to the stadium the day after the coup where he was tortured in front of other prisoners and his fingers were crushed. His bullet-riddled body was found several days later.

22. New Chilean President General Augusto Pinochet orchestrates the coup with U.S. support

23. Pinochet (shown here with Henry Kissinger) Pinochet, head of Chile until 1990. Under military rule at least 3,000 killed (disappeared) and tens of thousands arrested and brutally tortured

24. Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe)

25. Henry Wade, District Attorney, Dallas County, Texas

26. Roe v. Wade • was not the decision that George Washington had to make when crossing the Delaware River.

27. ABORTION • For much of the 1800s, abortion was legal in the U.S. up to the point of the “quickening” the point at which the woman could feel the first movements of the fetus. • 1869, Catholic Church bans abortion • 1873, Congress passes the Comstock law, which made it illegal to send contraceptives and abortion inducing drugs through the mail. • By the 1880s, abortion was illegal in almost every state across the country

28. Historic Decision • On Jan 22, 1973, the Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision, struck down a Texas law banning abortion, effectively legalizing the procedure nationwide. In a majority opinion declared that a woman’s right to an abortion was implicit in the right to privacy protected by the 14th Amendment. • The court divided pregnancy into three trimesters, and declared that the choice to end a pregnancy in the first trimester was solely up to the woman. In the second trimester, the government could regulate abortion, although not ban it, in order to protect the mother’s health. • In the third trimester, the state could prohibit abortion to protect a fetus that could survive on its own outside the womb, except when a woman’s health was in danger.

29. ABORTION II • 1965: Griswold v. Connecticut Supreme Court decision strikes down a state law that prohibited giving married people information, instruction, or medical advice on contraception. • 1967: Colorado is the first state to liberalize its abortion laws. • 1970: Alaska, Hawaii, New York, and Washington liberalize abortion laws, making abortion available at the request of a woman and her doctor. • 1973: Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision strikes down state laws that made abortion illegal. • 1976: Congress adopts the first Hyde Amendment barring the use of federal Medicaid funds to provide abortions to low-income women. • 1977: A revised Hyde Amendment is passed allowing states to deny Medicaid funding except in cases of rape, incest, or “severe and long-lasting” damage to the woman’s physical health. • 1991: Rust v. Sullivan upholds the constitutionality of the 1988 “gag rule” which prohibits doctors and counselors at clinics which receive federal funding from providing their patients with information about and referrals for abortion. • 1992: Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey reaffirms the “core” holdings of Roe that women have a right to abortion before fetal viability, but allows states to restrict abortion access so long as these restrictions do not impose an “undue burden” on women seeking abortions.

30. Stare Decisis Stare decisis is a doctrine, or an instruction, used in all court cases and with all legal issues. Stare decisis means that courts look to past, similar issues to guide their decisions. These past decisions are known as precedent. Precedent is a legal principle, or a rule, that is created by a higher court decision.

31. Violence against Abortion Providers • From 1977 to 2015 there eight murders, 17 attempted murders, 42 bombings, and 186 arsons targeted at abortion clinics and providers across the United States. Sometimes clinics have been targeted multiple times.

33. Source Guttmacher Institute • 19 states have laws that could be used to restrict the legal status of abortion. • 9 states retain their unenforced, pre-Roe abortion bans. • 7 states have post-Roe laws to ban all or nearly all abortions that would be triggered if Roe were overturned.   • 5 states have unconstitutional post-Roe restrictions that are currently blocked by courts but could be brought back into effect with a court order in Roe’s absence. • 7 states have laws that express the intent to restrict the right to legal abortion to the maximum extent permitted by the U.S. Supreme Court in the absence of Roe. • 10 states have laws that protect the right to abortion.   • 1 state has codified the right to abortion throughout pregnancy without state interference. • 9 states explicitly permit abortion prior to viability or when necessary to protect the life or health of the woman.

34. Alabama The governor of Alabama recently signed the most restrictive abortion law in the nation, outlawing the procedure, except when it is necessary to prevent a "serious health risk" to the mother or if the "unborn child has a lethal anomaly.“ Performing an abortion would be a Class A felony in 10 years. The minimum sentence for a Class A felony is 10 years, but it can go as high as 99 years in prison or life. The exception is capital murder, which carries an automatic life sentence.

35. Georgia- “heartbeat law” • Makes abortion illegal after a “heartbeat” can be detected (about six weeks). • At six weeks, the “baby” is an embryo not a fetus. • Women, doctors, nurses and pharmacists can be prosecuted under Georgia’s criminal abortion statute, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. • Possible life sentence-depends on interpretation.

36. 1974Gas rationing Following a war between Israel and Arab neighbors, OPEC enforces oil embargo. Americans forced to sit in long lines for gas. • August Facing almost certain impeachment and conviction, Nixon resigns

37. 1975 • April North Vietnam occupied Saigon, U.S. pulls out of Indochina. • Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed a BASIC program for the Altair 8800. The name "Micro-soft" (for microcomputer software) and Microsoft becomes a registered trademark • NBC airs first episode of Saturday Night Live

38. 1976 • Democrat Jimmy Carter defeats Republican Gerald Ford for the presidency • Seattle Seahawks play their first football game • U.S. Supreme Court in Gregg v. Georgia reinstates the death penalty.

39. 1977 • January Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in the Utah. The first of about 1,500 people who have been executed in the U.S. since then. • May First Star Wars is released • Harvey Milk, openly gay politician, wins election in S.F. city council race.

40. 1978 • November More than 900 members of the People’s Temple cult die in a mass suicide in Guyana (South America). • November: Harvey Milk and SF Mayor George Moscone assassinated by SF Supervisor Dan White

41. 1979 • March Partial nuclear meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant near Harrisburg, PA pretty much kills the atomic energy industry in the U.S. • May White Night Riots in San Francisco after the man who killed Milk/Moscone was found guilty only of voluntary manslaughter • Talking Heads releases “Fear of Music” their 3rd studio album • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO7N2tFb0X8

42. https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2019/06/14/climate-change-psychology-orig-mg.cnnhttps://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2019/06/14/climate-change-psychology-orig-mg.cnn