ting involved in political change. A group of students formed the May 2nd Movement which was a protest in 1964 organized by students who felt that their universities were not providing a proper education. They wanted to learn vital skills and information necessary to be active in the political aspects of their nation. The main goal of the May 2nd Movement of 1964 was to form a way to counteract the actions of the imperialistic United States government, but in order to do so they knew their claims had to be well researched and backed. Students suspected that the U.S. invasion of Vietnam served no purpose but to gain more power and repress the Vietnamese people (What 2-4).In order to ensure that from this point forward students were no longer being poorly educated, they began to organize their own universities, the first being F.U.N.Y. (the Free University of New York). These schools were run and attended by those active in the May 2nd Movement. Efforts to spread their beliefs throughout the nation were made in two main ways. First was a publication known as the Free Student that documented student occurrences dealing with the war and the anti-war movement. This magazine was made readily available on nearly every college campus across the country. Second was through study groups where students met voluntarily to discuss and inform themselves about how to instigate political reform (What 5). These young people expressed great opposition to the war in Vietnam because they believed that it was not what was best for the United States as it affected everyone in one way or another. Students were affected through their education, laborers in the steel mills were affected as the government prevented them from walking out on the job in order to maintain production, and the entire country was damaged as billions of dollars were removed from the national budget in order to fund the efforts overseas(What 4-5).A turning point of the anti-war movemen...
