“New Social Movements”:The 1970s and Beyond

History 337 / March 21, 2012

Frankfurt’s “sponti” scene(here: strikes against higher ticket prices for public transit in 1974)

“Occupied” house in Frankfurt, 1979

Punks in London, 1978

Punks in Fulda, 1989

Jimmy Carter and Helmut Schmidt, pretending to like each other

A Pershing II intermediate-range rocket

“No atomic weapons in East and West”

Helmut Kohl (right) congratulated by Helmut Schmidt, October 1982

An “Easter March” in the Ruhr, 1983(No new atomic rockets in our country – fight atomic death)

Atomic power?No, thank you.

Protestors at Brokdorf, Lower Saxony, 1976

The police presence at Brokdorf (after earlier violent clashes)

The greens enter the Bundestag, 1983(here with Chancellor Helmut Kohl, looking perplexed)

Demonstrations against the construction of a new runwayat the Frankfurt airport (1984)

Joschka Fischer sworn in as “Minister of the Environment”

in Hesse (December 1985)