Hip Events
Surrealistic Summer Solstice, San Francisco 2017
The Surrealistic Summer Solstice will be held June 21 in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in front of the Conservatory of Flowers. JFK Drive will be closed that day to accommodate the vendors. Dusk to midnight. Free, but tickets are already gone. Hippie Hill 1967 – photo courtesy San Francisco Chronicle Good news for some, […] Continue reading
San Francisco’s Summer of Love 2017
It was fifty years ago when free love, peace and acid ruled the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. In that year artists, activists, writers, and musicians were all gathering with hopes of creating a new social paradigm. With as many as 100,000 young people from all over the nation, they used nearby Golden Gate Park […] Continue reading
Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
Declaration of the Occupation of New York City Posted on September 30, 2011 by NYCGA THIS DOCUMENT WAS ACCEPTED BY THE NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON SEPTEMBER 29, 2011 As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that […] Continue reading
Margo St. James Streaked the Bay to Breakers Run (1965)
IN THE ‘BAY TO BREAKERS’ I MAKE THE RECORD BOOK BUT MARGO ST. JAMES ‘STREAKS’ TO ESTABLISHING AN INSTITUTION From North Beach Leathers – Tailors to the Stars by Bill Morgan Besides Carol, the other grand dame of North Beach in those days was Margo St. James. She liked to think of herself as […] Continue reading
Hippie Timeline
Hippy TimelineHere are some of the more important events of the 1960s-1970s. They include the antecedents and descendants of the hippy movement, the civil rights, anti-war, women’s and environmental movements. The psychedelic and the protest movements were greatly enhanced by the revolution in music, so we’ve included some influential music milestones. For more on this […] Continue reading