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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Free Woman by Heather Dean (1966)
I was waiting for the light to change at Bloor and St. George when I saw the first whore waiting across from me. She was slumped, smile drooping, foot-sore from cruising Fraternity Row peddling counterfeit sex to the sons of the bourgeoisie who know no better. I felt a decent Pity. (Declension: I am pitying, […] Continue reading
What is Women’s Liberation? (1970)
What is women’s liberation? It is simply organized rage against real oppression. Recently a woman phoned to say she had just had an abortion at one of the best hospitals in the District of Columbia. Because she couldn’t find a doctor to help her before, she couldn’t have the abortion until her fifth month of […] Continue reading
SDS – Port Huron Statement (1962)
This is the first official document of the SDS, Students for A Democratic Society issued in Port Huron, Michigan, June 1962. Founding member, Tom Hayden helped create the draft this document. This is only the beginning of the document. INTRODUCTION: AGENDA FOR A GENERATION We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest […] Continue reading
SDS Vietnam Anti-War Speech (1965)
By Paul Potter, President of SDS MOST OF US grew up thinking that the United States was a strong but humble nation, that involved itself in world affairs only reluctantly, that respected the integrity of other nations and other systems, and that engaged in wars only as a last resort. This was a nation with […] Continue reading
Let Us Shape the Future (1965)
This is the text of a speech by Carl Oglesby, the president of the SDS. The position he presents here is what for many represents the core of hippie activism. 100,000 students joined the SDS on 400 campus across the US. As you can see NOTHING has changed in the past 37 years! We are […] Continue reading
Patriotism by Emma Goldman (1911)
WHAT is patriotism? Is it love of one’s birthplace, the place of childhood’s recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations ? Is it the place where, in childlike naivete, we would watch the fleeting clouds, and wonder why we, too, could not run so swiftly? The place where we would count the milliard glittering stars, terror-stricken […] Continue reading
A Prayer for America (2002)
A Prayer for America by US Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio) (to be sung as an overture for America) My country ’tis of thee. Sweet land of liberty of thee I sing. . . . From every mountain side, let freedom ring. . . . Long may our land be bright. With freedom’s holy light. […] Continue reading
The “Hippie” Label & Activism
From the time that hippie became a common term applied to a recognizable but mysterious phenomenon, the question of the political behavior of hippies became significant. The general snap conclusion was quite upsetting to most student activists. Hippie, to them, meant drop-out, from political behavior as well as everything else. Many, especially in the East, […] Continue reading
Obama Speaks Out on Race
Obama Speaks Out on Race The following speech by Barak Obama on the subject of Race was inspired by the racial debate that has soured the Democratic Primaries. His goal is to take America beyond race by confronting the long-standing issues that underly them rather than ignoring those issues. “We the people, in order to […] Continue reading
Two, Three, Many Columbias by Tom Hayden
THE goal written on the university walls was Create two, three, many Columbias; it meant expand the strike so that the U.S. must either change or send its troops to occupy American campuses. At this point the goal seems realistic; an explosive mix is present on dozens of campuses where demands for attention to student […] Continue reading