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Stokely Charmichael’s Revolutionary Speech at Oakland Auditorium (1968)
STOKELY CARMICHAEL, American Revolutionary This is a complete transcript of Stokely Carmichael’s speech at the Oakland Auditorium February 17, 1968. The occasion was a benefit birthday party for Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Newton is awaiting trial on charges of killing a white Oakland policeman. The speech […] Continue reading
Summer of love
I left Alabama in 1967 with my first love and a friend. We left with $167.00 and a full tank of gas. We headed out west to see the great west. California bound. We would eat junkfoods and make sandwiches of sorts. We decided to vist LA first and and the Strip. We were invited into a Rolls […] Continue reading
All You Need Is Love!
All you need is love–such beautiful words that carry so much meaning. It is all I have need to be happy, all I need to find peace, and all I need to become the person I want to be. A virtue based on compassion, kindness, and affection. I believe that if you want to be […] Continue reading
Hippy Hill Needs HELP Rebuilding
Really bad news, but in the early hours of Friday April 13th, 2012 there was a fire on Hippie Hill. Thanks god noone was hurt. Hippie Hill is a non-profit organization that helps feed and give a place for people to stay at. If they lost everything Hippie Hill was always there to help you […] Continue reading
The Hair Rebellion
All that trully want to embrace nature and encourage conservation should grow long hair or dredlocks. Long hair is the natural state of the human dew. Thusly, encouraging the natural state of the body, you encourage the natural state of the mind and the planet, instead of manipulating and ravaging the land to our own […] Continue reading
Light Years: an Anthology (Multimedia in the East Village, 1960-1966)
LIGHT YEARS Edited by Carol Bergé In the last twenty years of her life, running an antique shop in Santa Fe, the writer Carol Berge asked for and put together a capacious set of sundry memoirs of people she had known in New York, writers of talent who lived mostly on the Lower East Side […] Continue reading
From the Novel, FLASHBACKS THROUGH A PURPLE HAZE
Author’s Note I MUST BE NUTS! You see, I already realize this radical, rabble-rousing book is going to be incredibly problematic and controversial. After it’s available to the general public the repercussions could completely ruin my scientific career: Possibly my life! But, like the chump that I am… I’m going to go right ahead […] Continue reading
Off the Grid in the Natural State
“To properly understand political power and trace its origins, we must consider the state that all people are in naturally. That is a state of perfect freedom of acting and disposing of their own possessions and persons as they think fit within the bounds of the law of nature. People in this state do not have to […] Continue reading
Hippie Songs Invade Texas Cowboy Country
MERCEDES – Can you imagine performing at a show in the Valley and seeing a crowd of Winter Texans with long hair, head bands and hippie garb all laughing and having the time of their lives? Well, that’s the experience James Marvell and his wife Faye had Friday night January 27 at Paradise South’s Hippie […] Continue reading
Comedy, Cocaine and Cable TV
by Robbie Jones Saturday Night Live producer Marci Klein SNL Sara Seth glanced up at the marquee on west 68th from the inside of the Hilton Hotel. 10 minutes to show time! Famous comedian famous comedian am I said she to the empty bar. She watched as the stepladder was placed in front of the […] Continue reading