Hippie Havens
The following is a list of places where there exists a sizable hippy population, where there is tolerance towards hippies, where hippies are free to pursue their lifestyle with community support. Whether you’re looking to visit or relocate, you can be sure there’ll be places to stay, interesting things to see and do, and lots of other hippies in these places. Please note, most of these were reader contributions! If you know of any other places to add to this list please write to us.
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San Francisco, California
The place where it all began in the Summer of Love, 1967. Is it still happening here? Well almost. The Haight-Ashbury area is just a tourist attraction, and not really so cool. While Berkeley still has a lot of the old spirit and feeling. The S.F. area is way too expensive for hippies anymore, unless […] Continue reading
Amsterdam Coffeeshops and Cannabis
Amsterdam Coffeeshops and Cannabis See Our Coffeeshop List for reviews & ratings. The Dutch have an attitude of tolerance dating back to the 16th century when they forced out the Spanish and their inquisition. Since then, the Dutch make a point of not criminalizing or feigning moral outrage at victimless crimes. Prostitution, pornography, homosexuality, euthanasia, […] Continue reading
Black Power & Urban Politics by Albert Cleage (1968)
What is now happening in Detroit, I think, is typical in at least one way of black communities throughout America: it represents the determination of the black people to control their own community. This marks a new day for black people. Wherever the black revolution is in progress, specific steps have to be taken to […] Continue reading
Technology for Life by Lewis Herber (1969)
In a future revolution, the most pressing task assigned to technology will be to produce a surfeit of goods with a minimum of toil. The immediate purpose of this task will be to permanently open the social arena to the revolutionary people, to keep the revolution in permanence. Thus far, every social revolution has foundered […] Continue reading
The Vietnam Moratorium by Jeremy Brecher (1969)
True mass movements develop quickly; they contain contradictory impulses; they change rapidly in the face of events their leaders cannot control. The great mass movement called the Moratorium already shows three explicit political strands, each with its own assumptions and its own trajectory for the movement. 1) For the great majority of participants, the Moratorium […] Continue reading
Cyberactivists bring down World Economic Forum Website
Cyberactivists brought down the the web site of the World Economic Forum in a virtual sit-in. The attack was coordinated by the Electronic Disturbance Theater, Electronic Civil Disobedience and the Federation of Random Action. The activists have been urging people to help with the attacks on www.weforum.org. At Indymedia.org. messages from those groups took credit […] Continue reading
Hippy Fashions and Lifestyles
The same costume will be …amusing 30 years after its time. James Laver At the risk of seeming trite, we shall now delve into the superficial world of hippy fashions. Please bear with me as you will see it leads us to some very interesting places. Today, the fashion world has once again discovered the […] Continue reading
People’s Park Leaflets (1969)
Berkeley residents at work fixing up People’s Park TO OUR BROTHERS These National Guardsmen are not pigs. They’re not even gung-ho soldiers. Most of them share our view that the Vietnam war is an unworthy act of aggression. By joining the guard they avoided two years of active duty and a tour in Vietnam. As […] Continue reading
People’s Park: Just the Beginning by John Simon (1969)
Like who knows how many thousand others, I got involved in the battle of People’s Park when somebody handed me a shovel and said, over there, we’re breaking it up so we can lay sod down. Packed by weight of years of houses and months of cars, the hard earth barely yielded to any tool, […] Continue reading
The Nurnberg Principles & Crimes Against Humanity
The following is the International Law currently being used to prosecute Slobodan Milosovich for crimes against humanity. Everyone should be aware of this law and remember that NO ONE IS IMMUNE from this, including politicians who wage war! The Treaty of London, August 8, 1945 (59 Stat. 7544), provided for the creation of the International […] Continue reading