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How to Write a Yippie Survival Manual (1969)
Editor’s Note: This was part of an advertisement to obtain info for a Yippie Survival manual. Abbie Hoffman ended up including the input in his Steal This Book!HOW TO MAKE $80 and not sell grit 1) Do you know of any hustles, ways to cheat or fuck the telephone companies, airlines, General Motors, government, Jackie […] Continue reading
The Woodstock Experience (1969)
The Woodstock Experience (1969) You could see them sitting around fires, maybe near a lean-to they had built from leaves and branches or near some crummy outasite truck or next to a big worn green tent. The new family. Tribes sharing their possessions, breaking down the obsolete patterns of race or religion or background. Classless. […] Continue reading
Torture at the 17th Precinct (1970)
Torture at the 17th Precinct (1970)by Jomo Raskin On December 9th I was arrested at 50th street and 5th Avenue during a demonstration and march to protest the murder of Chairman Fred Hampton. The demonstration started at Park Avenue and 48th Street. Nixon was in the Waldorf receiving an award. At 50th and 5th windows […] Continue reading
The African American Past and the American Present (1968)
The African American Past and the American Present (1968) By Vincent Harding NEGRO history suffers the same fate in the overall American story as the individual Negro’s integration Into American society. That is, small but prominent doses of Negro History can be dropped into the national saga, but these black drops should never be numerous […] Continue reading
Negro ‘Paranoia’ (1968)
NEGRO ‘PARANOIA’ (1968) White Racism Said to Push Blacks to the Brink By JOHN LEO White racism forces the American Negro to lead a life of cultural paranoia and often pushes him over the brink into true paranoid schizophrenia, a black psychiatrist said here yesterday. Paranoia, a withdrawal from reality with delusions of persecution, is […] Continue reading
Something Just Happened to the Black People of the United States (1968)
Something Just Happened to the Black People of the United States WE ARE NO LONGER WHAT WE WERE! Negotiation, which according to Rev. Cleage should amount to a real ‘transfer of power’, was not possible before the riots: one does not negotiate with slaves. Until July, the whites of Detroit, deep inside themselves, considered the […] Continue reading
Politics of Vandalism (1968)
Politics of Vandalism (1968) by Stanley Cohen Deviant behavior is not a static category: an act must be so labeled by others. This means that the sociologist should be on guard when society (or powerful groups in society) designates certain behavior problematic or deviant. In regard to some forms of mental illness, for example, R. […] Continue reading
Dr. King Planning Protests To ‘Dislocate’ Large Cities (1967)
Dr. King Planning Protests To ‘Dislocate’ Large Cities (1967) Massive but Nonviolent Campaign Is Sought, Before Congress Adjourns, to Get Federal Aid for Negroes By GENE ROBERTS Special to The New York Times ATLANTA, Aug. 15 – The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said today that he planned to dislocate Northern cities with massive […] Continue reading
Do we Love the Vietnamese More than our Black Brothers? (1967)
Do we Love the Vietnamese More than our Black Brothers?By Carol Wallace On July 18th I sat-in at Newark City Hall, middle of the floor; dialogued gently with all comers including rifle-toting cops; got off pretty nicely to a bloodlined paddy wagon; was released at the police station and offered bus fare to go home […] Continue reading
Nashville Protests Against Repression of Black Community (1968)
Nashville Protests Against Repression of Black Community (1968) NASHVILLE, Tenn. – People here are taking the offensive against attempts to repress the black community-and the power structure is backing down. Police rampaged through the ghetto for a week in late January, supposedly looking for some men who had killed a policeman (see February Patriot). Their […] Continue reading