In 1968 what were the other protests/places not familiar with that should get attention

[thebeloitmoderate]

1968 was a crazy year in world history. The Vietnam War, alongside with the rapid increase in the counterculture movement, murders of MLK, and RFK, student movements in France and Mexico, alongside with everything else was memorable for the oldest baby boomers.
Everyone knows that most of America especially DC, Chicago and Baltimore was burning after MLK JR's assassination, and the crazy 1968 DNC in Chicago making it the spotlight of 1968 overall in America. The German student movement in 68 was something that historians mentioning 1968 that should come to the spotlight as well 

[Agonized-Statism]

In general, while acknowledging the very different circumstances behind each protest, I think historians should make a greater effort to tie the United States' 1968 protests, France's May '68, Italy's Years of Lead, the Prague Spring, China's Down to the Countryside movement, Mexico's Tlatelolco massacre, and so on together. All around the world, it was this critical mass of baby boomers asserting the power of the people, creating this zeitgeist/chaos (depending on your politics) that fed into itself, that then got defeated or compromised across the board. A pivotal moment in world history, and one we should all study when asking ourselves why hopelessness and powerlessness pervades now.

Latin America had some interesting '68 protests, as mentioned above, so you should check that out.

[PSOL]

Third Campism turned Czechoslovakia, Poland, and to a lesser extent Hungary (thanks Kadar) into an area full of wildcat strikes and 1969 was when Mao ordered the Chinese Army to kill dissenting collectives, thus ensuring China would remain a capitalist nation and go forward meeting “international norms”.

The late 60s was also a time of massive resistance to the new aristocratic abomination duck taped by the US-aligned Japan. The momentous backlash against US military occupation and the struggle “modernizing” soon turned Japan into a hotbed of militancy.

[progressive85]

I do want to add that Stonewall, which happened the next year, was not the only gay protest of the decade.  There had been several others, notably one in San Francisco I believe in the mid-60s, was it?  Stonewall possibly received more attention because it happened in the Northeast, where the nation's media was, and especially since it was in New York City around where much of the media establishment lived and worked.  Yet there were other "baby Stonewalls" that occurred in the U.S. and there was certainly work being done in other ways, such as a peaceful professional-style demonstration outside the White House by gays and lesbians in suits and dresses, as a way of boosting the national image of the homosexual - then almost entirely perceived by everyone as a danger to the national security of the nation.