Monthly Archives: February 2017
A Trip Through the Sixties – The Anti-War Movement
The Anti-War Movement We bled inside each other’s wounds we had caught the same disease we all sang the songs of peace. Melanie – Lay Down Protesters in D.C. The Vietnam war divided the country into hawks and doves. Thousands of young men fled to Canada rather than allow themselves to be drafted and sent […] Continue reading
Landmark Hippy Events
Hippies from A to Z by Skip Stone Landmark Hippy Events Part II This chapter reviews some of the major events of the hippie movement. These events defined the nature, objectives and results of our counter-cultural assault on the establishment. Anyone who participated in these events shared at least some of the hippy beliefs, and […] Continue reading
The Young Hippies
Hippies from A to Z by Skip Stone The Young Hippies There’s a whole generation with a new explanation. John Phillips/Scott McKenzie (San Francisco) I was very surprised to find when I started Hippyland that I wasn’t just attracting old hippies like myself. There seems to be a large contingent of young people who consider […] Continue reading
The Old Hippies
Hippies from A to Z by Skip Stone The Old Hippies Old hippies don’t die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again. Joseph Gallivan Whatever happened to all the old hippies? The millions who rallied, marched, protested, chanted and boycotted? Are they now just rebels without a cause? […] Continue reading
Hippy Philosophy and the Hippy Dream
Hippies from A to Z by Skip Stone Hippy Philosophy and the Hippy Dream We are stardust, we are golden, and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden. Joni Mitchell/CS&N (Woodstock) So what do hippies want anyway? What is their utopian fantasy? It’s easy to criticize the existing system, but just what do […] Continue reading
Black Panther Party Platform and Program (1966)
Black Panther Party Platform and Program What We Want What We Believe 1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community. We believe that black people will not be free until we are able to determine our destiny. 2. We want full employment for our people. We believe that […] Continue reading
Famous Hippies, Friends and Enemies
Hippies from A to Z by Skip Stone Famous Hippies, Friends and Enemies. The following list of people includes those who influenced or were part of the hippy movement as well as those who sought to repress it. Some of these outstanding individuals have devoted much of their lives to causes that benefit everyone. Many […] Continue reading
A Trip Through the Sixties – The Student Rights Movement
The Student Rights Movement The most exciting things going on in America today are movements to change America…The futures and careers for which American students now prepare are for the most part intellectual and moral wastelands. This chrome-plated consumers paradise would have us grow up to be well-behaved children. – Mario Savio (Free Speech Movement […] Continue reading
A Trip Through the Sixties – The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War We should declare war on North Vietnam. . . .We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas. – Ronald Reagan, 1965 The Vietnam War was something that affected everyone in America. If you didn’t get drafted, you knew someone who did, who […] Continue reading
A Trip Through the Sixties – The Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Black protesters getting the high pressure hose in Birmingham, Alabama 1963 For the 15 percent of Americans who were black, living in an American version of Apartheid meant being treated […] Continue reading