The Black Liberation Collective has something that its Sixties predecessors never had

According to a Chronicle of Higher Education article,  the activist group, which ousted a university president in Missouri, is going national thanks to social media.  Want to keep
up with the movement?  Go to #StudentBlackOut on Twitter.  There's also a website.

Meanwhile, 400 protesters, part of a group called Democracy Spring, were arrested outside the Capitol building yesterday.

This election year just keeps getting more and more interesting, as my Sixties flashbacks become increasingly intense.  I can't wait to see what happens when the Democrats bring their flying circus to the Pennsylvania Convention in my hometown  in July.

Meanwhile, I am in awe of what technology can do for a mass movement.  "The collective’s social-media timelines quickly filled with photos taken by activists — including a solidarity pose of students in lab coats at Thomas Jefferson University’s medical school and a long chain of silent students with tape over their mouths at the University of Cincinnati. A photo of a student demonstration in Atlanta appeared on the collective’s Tumblr feed with an inspirational message: 'Tonight we shut the city down. Tonight we were heard. Tonight, regardless of the rain, we stood in solidarity with Mizzou, Yale, and campuses nationwide,'"  goes the Chronicle story.

By contrast, back in the sixties we had the mimeograph machine and the typewriter.  Of course, there was television... and that made all the difference in its heyday.  It brought the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights marches and JFK's funeral into our living rooms, as has often been pointed out.  I wonder how relevant TV is today?  More from the Chronicle piece:

"The revolution might not be televised, but it will be tweeted!" Ms. Bell wrote on Twitter that afternoon. (Those words were a glib reference to the Gil Scott-Heron poem "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" and a 2010 New Yorker article by the author Malcolm Gladwell, which appeared under the headline, "Why the revolution won’t be tweeted." He argued that social-media activism was characterized by a system of "weak ties," and that such a strategy "succeeds not by motivating people to make a real sacrifice but by motivating them to do the things that people do when they are not motivated enough to make a real sacrifice.")

As I've pointed out repeatedly in this space, TV journalism by and large, has been reduced to infotainment.  While Generation "Z" is all about zombies, aka, "The Walking Dead," it appears to me they get their news from the Internet.  That's their second home.  And it seems to be where this mass movement --- if there is to be one ---will gain its cohesiveness and draw its energy.