Flower Power

"Will you take the flower?" a woman asked the police. "Please do take my flower. Are you afraid of flowers? This picture above is about a female protester offered a flower to the military police at an anti-Vietnam war protest in Arlington, Virginia. "Flower power was a slogan used by the anti-Vietnam war protesters early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and non-violence ideology. It is rooted in the opposition movement to the Vietnam War. [1]"The expression was created by a famous American poet Allen Ginsburg in 1965 as a means to transform war protests into a peaceful way.

Flower Power originated in Berkeley California as a symbolic action of protest against the Vietnam War. In Allen Ginsberg's essay "How to Make a March/Spectacle,"he said that protesters should be provided with masses of flowers to hand out to policemen, press, politicians and spectators.The use of flowers, toys, flags, candy and music were meant to turn anti-war rally into a form of street theater in order to reduce the fear, anger and threat that created by the anti-war rally.[1]

Source: [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_Power

http://www.yesterdaysbread.co.uk/history-flowerpower.html

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