Activism
Redstockings (Bitch) Manifesto (1969)
Redstockings Manifesto (1969) I. After centuries of individual and preliminary political struggle, women are united to achieve their final liberation from male supremacy. Redstockings is dedicated to building this unity and winning our freedom. II. Women are an oppressed class. Our oppression is total, affecting every facet of our lives. We are exploited as sex […] Continue reading
The Peace and Freedom Party
The Peace and Freedom Party was organized on June 23, 1967 by social activists in the farm workers, civil rights, and anti-Vietnam War movements. Its initial registration drive began at a demonstration against Lyndon Johnson at the Century City Plaza in Los Angeles California. The party’s name has sometimes created confusion with the Women’s International […] Continue reading
Hippyland Song – By Tommy Chong
Hippyland by Tommy Chong from the movie Far Out Man 1990 When my woman left I had a brilliant flash I started Hippyland, man Just to raise some cash I wanted it to be just like Disneyland, Man For all the hippy-dippy people all across this land With a Big-Bong ride that would suck you […] Continue reading
The Communist Manifesto Part II (1848)
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels Manifesto of the Communist Party Part II1848 Bourgeois and Proletarians | Proletarians and Communists | Socialist and Communist Literature | Position of the Communists in relation to the various existing opposition parties | Preface to 1872 German edition | Preface to 1882 Russian edition | Preface to 1883 German edition […] Continue reading
Free Speech Movement
Free Speech Movement: Do Not Fold, Bend, Mutilate or Spindle At the beginning, we did not realize the strength of the forces we were up against. We have learned that we must fight not only Dean Towle, Chancellor Strong, and President Kerr, but also the Board of Regents with their billions of dollars and Governor […] Continue reading
Rules of the Black Panther Party
Rules of the Black Panther Party Every member of the Black Panther Party throughout this country of racist America must abide by these rules as functional members of this party. Central Committee members, Central Staffs, and Local Staffs, including all captains subordinated to either national, state, and local leadership of the Black Panther Party will […] Continue reading
Claiming Turf in Berkeley (1968)
Claiming Turf in Berkeley by Michael Rossman People are considering the First Battle of Berkeley in terms of police brutality, civil liberties, Berkeley civic politics, or even the emergence of a revolutionary political vanguard, god help us. There is much confusion about what the Battle meant, in what if any sense it was a victory, […] Continue reading
The Communist Manifesto (1848)
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels Manifesto of the Communist Party 1848 Bourgeois and Proletarians | Proletarians and Communists | Socialist and Communist Literature | Position of the Communists in relation to the various existing opposition parties | Preface to 1872 German edition | Preface to 1882 Russian edition | Preface to 1883 German edition […] Continue reading
A Definition of Anarchy
Anarchism is the doctrine which proposes that society shall be reorganized on the basis of small, self-governing communities in which the land, produce, and machinery of production will be owned in common, and the power of the political state abolished in order that the fullest measure of individual liberty and equality may prevail. The philosophy […] Continue reading
Hippie Roots & The Perennial Subculture
By Gordon Kennedy & Kody Ryan Wandervogels Abschied by Fidus, 1900 According to Webster’s dictionary (2003) a hippie or hippy is: a young person of the 1960’s who rejected established social mores, advocated spontaneity, free expression of love and the expansion of consciousness, often wore long hair and unconventional clothes, and used psychedelic drugs. This […] Continue reading