Download or read book Woodstock Nation written by Abbie Hoffman and published by New York : Vintage Books. This book was released on 1969 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Abbie Hoffman, Yippie non-leader, notorious dope addict and up-and-coming rock group (the WHAT), is currently on trial with seven others for conspiracy to incite riot during the Democratic Convention. When he returned from the Woodstock Festival he had five days before leaving for Chicago to prepare for the trial. Woodstock Nation, which the author wrote in longhand while lying upside down, stoned, on the floor of an unused office of the publisher, is the product of those five days. Other works by Mr. Hoffman include Revolution for the Hell of It and Fuck the System, which he describes as a "tender love epic"."-- Back cover.

Download or read book Chicago 68 written by David Farber and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-08-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertaining and scrupulously researched, Chicago '68 reconstructs the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago—an epochal moment in American cultural and political history. By drawing on a wide range of sources, Farber tells and retells the story of the protests in three different voices, from the perspectives of the major protagonists—the Yippies, the National Mobilization to End the War, and Mayor Richard J. Daley and his police. He brilliantly recreates all the excitement and drama, the violently charged action and language of this period of crisis, giving life to the whole set of cultural experiences we call "the sixties." "Chicago '68 was a watershed summer. Chicago '68 is a watershed book. Farber succeeds in presenting a sensitive, fairminded composite portrait that is at once a model of fine narrative history and an example of how one can walk the intellectual tightrope between 'reporting one's findings' and offering judgements about them."—Peter I. Rose, Contemporary Sociology

Download or read book Did It From Yippie to Yuppie written by Pat Thomas and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a coffee table art book and biography of Yippie Jerry Rubin. This overstuffed coffee table book is not only the first biography of the infamous and ubiquitous Jerry Rubin―co-founder of the Yippies, Anti-Vietnam War activist, Chicago 8 defendant, social-networking pioneer, and a proponent of the Yuppie era―but a visual retrospective, with countless candid photos, personal diaries, and lost newspaper clippings. It includes correspondence with Abbie Hoffman, Norman Mailer, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Eldridge Cleaver, the Weathermen, and interviews with more than 75 of Rubin’s friends, foes, and comrades. It reveals Rubins' and the Yippies’ historical-and-bizarre personal interactions with the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Charles Manson, Mick Jagger, and other iconic figures of the era.

Download or read book Youth International Party Yippies written by Youth International Party and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Yippie Girl Exploits in Protest and Defeating the FBI written by Judy Gumbo and published by Three Rooms Press. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lifelong activist Judy Gumbo, an original member of the Yippies (Youth International Party), a 1960s counter culture and satirical anti-war group, offers an insider feminist memoir of her involvment with the Yippies, Black Panthers, Chicago Eight Conspiracy Trial defendants, and her fight against secret FBI surveillance of her day-to-day activities. In this positive story of a young woman's self-actualization and constructive radicalism mixed with humor, author Judy Gumbo offers the first insider's feminist perspective of life as a member of the Yippies. In 1967, Gumbo arrived in Berkeley and immediately became involved with the activist community. In the Spring of 1968, she joined the Yippies as one of its few female members, and--at the raucous Chicago Democratic National Convention--helped with their efforts to run a pig named Pigasus for President. She continued her activism, helping stage Berkeley's People's Park protests, advocating for women's rights through W.I.T.C.H. (Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell), a Yippie guerilla theater feminist group, and becoming involved with the Black Panthers. Gumbo's activism was so extensive, that by 1972, the FBI described her as "the most vicious, the most anti-American, the most anti-establishment, and the most dangerous to the internal security of the United States." In 1975, she discovered that the FBI had placed a tracking device on her car. Her home was broken into and a listening device was installed. As a result, she was part of a lawsuit that successfully challenged warrantless wiretapping. Yet through it all, Gumbo maintains her commitment to radicalism mixed with humor. She details her life as a protester to show that, while circumstances always change, protesters can stay loyal to the causes they believe in and remain true to themselves. At the same time, she reveals how dogmatism, authoritarianism, and interpersonal conflict can damage those same just causes. Ultimately, Yippie Girl serves as a strategic guide for activists on having fun with politics while experiencing the joy of protesting against injustice in all its forms.

Download or read book Revolutionaries written by Joshua Furst and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Austin Chronicle Best Book of the Year Fred, given name Freedom, is the sole offspring of Lenny Snyder, the infamous pied piper of 1960s counterculture. From a young age, Fred has been exploited by his father and used to enhance Lenny's mystique. Now middle-aged, Fred looks back on life with this charismatic, brilliant, and volatile ringmaster, who is as captivating in these pages as he was to his devoted disciples back then. We see Lenny in his prime and then as he gradually loses his magnetic confidence and leading role at the end of the sixties. Lenny demands loyaty but gives none back in return; he preaches love but treats his family with almost reflexive cruelty. And Fred remembers all of it--the chaos, the spite, the affection. A kaledoscopic saga, this novel is at once a profound allegory for America and a deeply intimate portrait of a father and son.

Download or read book An Intro To Yippie or what 21st Century Revolutionaries Can Learn from the Youth International Party written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A zine introduction to the Youth International Party, or Yippies.

Download or read book Steal This Book written by Abbie Hoffman and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2002-02-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook of survival and warfare for the citizens of Woodstock Nation A classic of counterculture literature and one of the most influential--and controversial--documents of the twentieth century, Steal This Book is as valuable today as the day it was published. It has been in print continuously for more than four decades, and it has educated and inspired countless thousands of young activists. Conceived as an instruction manual for radical social change, Steal This Book is divided into three sections--Survive! Fight! and Liberate! Ever wonder how to start a guerilla radio station? Or maybe you want to brush up on your shoplifting techniques. Perhaps you're just looking for the best free entertainment in New York City. (The Frick Collection--"Great when you're stoned.") Packed with information, advice, and Abbie's unique outlaw wisdom ("Avoid all needle drugs--the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon."), Steal This Book is a timeless reminder that, no matter what the struggle, freedom is always worth fighting for. "All Power to the Imagination was his credo. Abbie was the best."--Studs Terkel

Download or read book Conspiracy to Riot written by Lee Weiner and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of a life in activism by one of the original defendants in the Trial of the Chicago 7, subject of the 2020 Oscar-nominated Aaron Sorkin film of the same name. In March 1969, eight young men were indicted by the federal

Download or read book Battleground Chicago written by Frank Kusch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1968 Democratic Convention, best known for police brutality against demonstrators, has been relegated to a dark place in American historical memory. Battleground Chicago ventures beyond the stereotypical image of rioting protestors and violent cops to reevaluate exactly how—and why—the police attacked antiwar activists at the convention. Working from interviews with eighty former Chicago police officers who were on the scene, Frank Kusch uncovers the other side of the story of ’68, deepening our understanding of a turbulent decade. “Frank Kusch’s compelling account of the clash between Mayor Richard Daley’s men in blue and anti-war rebels reveals why the 1960s was such a painful era for many Americans. . . . to his great credit, [Kusch] allows ‘the pigs’ to speak up for themselves.”—Michael Kazin “Kusch’s history of white Chicago policemen and the 1968 Democratic National Convention is a solid addition to a growing literature on the cultural sensibility and political perspective of the conservative white working class in the last third of the twentieth century.”—David Farber, Journal of American History

Download or read book Peace Eye written by Ed Sanders and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Living the Revolution written by David Lewis Stein and published by Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill Company. This book was released on 1969 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A behind the scenes report on that momentous week-and on the people and planning that led to it.

Download or read book Square Dancing in the Ice Age written by Abbie Hoffman and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book from the U.S. underground, covering Abbie--in disguise--interviewing people, touring the FBI building, and organizing a campaign to save the St. Lawrence River. The articles are creative, funny, nervy, and political.

Download or read book Yippie Announcement Yippie written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two corner-stapled typescript mimeographed sheets of yellow paper issued by the Yippies regarding their gathering in Chigago for the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Download or read book Blacklisted News Secret History written by New Yippie Book Collective and published by Bleecker Pub. This book was released on 1983 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Radical Street Theatre and the Yippie Legacy written by Susanne Elizabeth Shawyer and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1967 and 1968, members of the Youth International Party, also known as Yippies, created several mass street demonstrations to protest President Lyndon Baines Johnson's handling of the United States' military involvement in the war in Vietnam. The Yippies were a loose network of hippies, anti-war activists, and left-wing radicals committed to cultural and political change. This dissertation investigates how the Yippies used avant-garde theories of theatre and performance in their year of demonstrating against the Johnson administration. The Yippies receive little attention in most histories of American performance, and theatre remains on the margins of political and social histories of the 1960s; therefore this dissertation places performance and political archives side by side to create a new historical narrative of the Yippies and performance. The Yippies created their own networked participatory street performance form by drawing on the political philosophy of the New Left student movement, the organizational strategies of the anti-war movement, and the countercultural values of the hippies. They modified this performance form, which they termed "revolutionary actiontheater," with performance theories drawn from New York's avant-garde art world, the concept of guerrilla theatre outlined by R.G. Davis of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and the notion of Theater of Cruelty created by Antonin Artaud. Using performance theory and cultural history as primary methodologies, this project traces the Yippies' adoption of revolutionary action-theater with three examples: the 1967 "March on the Pentagon" where future Yippie leaders performed an exorcism ritual at the Pentagon; the 1968 "Grand Central Station Yip-In" event that advertised for the Yippie movement; and the 1968 "Festival of Life" at the National Democratic Convention in Chicago where the Yippies nominated a pig as presidential candidate. The final chapter on the recent phenomenon of flash mobs argues that the Yippies' legacy lives on in this participatory street performance form, and suggests that revolutionary action-theater can still serve as a model for political action.

Download or read book Bags Yippies Can Get Into in Your Hometown written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issued by the Youth International Party, known as the Yippies, to promote a festival and non-violent protest in Chicago's Lincoln Park during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.