October 14, 1962 is usually considered as the beginning of the "Cuban Missile Crisis," even in some Russian media like Sputnik today. Because on that date a US Air Force U-2 spy plane took pictures confirming the deployment of Soviet R-12 missiles on Cuba.
But why were the missiles deployed? In the United States it is presented as another act of "aggression" from the USSR, omitting the fact that a year earlier, in 1961, the United States began deploying its PGM-19 Jupiter nuclear tipped medium-range ballistic missiles in Turkey that were able to reach Moscow, to say nothing of the Eastern European parts of the USSR. The USSR realized they were defenseless against those unless they achieved nuclear parity by deploying missiles in Cuba. But of course the real beginning of this missile crisis dates back not only to the beginning of the Cold War, but to the creation of the USSR and, way before that, to the Big Bang Theory, when history and maths were created out of nothing by Christian God. Hegel spoke of the "slaughter-bench of history." It is. Shit's nasty. The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles, so what do you expect, really?
In Cuba, the entire event is called The October Crisis (Crisis de Octubre), in Russia, the Carribean Crisis (Карибский кризис).
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I think all protest is a direct action against car culture.
Think about it, before the interstate system, the main form of protest is the strike, the armed rebellion, machine breaking, even illegal hiking
But post suburbanization and post interstate you start to see more street protests, road barricades, occupations of public squares and streets like CHOP.
It's like when people dream of another world, even if they can't articulate it, it's a world of community in the streets, of pedestrians, and their actions reflect it.
really selling this centuries-old tactic short by characterizing it as 'direct action against car culture'
The paris communards were incredibly prescient
I think it's a common subconscious desire. When I was a teenager I used to stay up late and walk down the arterials and the streets of downtown when there were no cars and feel powerful. I didn't have a critique of car infrastructure, but I had a desire to move beyond it.