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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Rock Concert Review by Sandy Darlington (1968)
Saturday at Santa Clara Fairgrounds. Hot weather and a good sound system. About 8000 people came to hear the rock bands. There were a lot of long-haired people there, but the major part of the audience was 15-17 year old white, kids. Lots of short sleeves, some Bermuda shorts. Kids with straight faces held in […] Continue reading
Yippie Workshop Speech by Abbie Hoffman (1968)
Listen to soundclip! Cops are like Yippies-you can never find the leaders… You just let ’em know that you’re stronger psychically than they are. And you are, because you came here for nothin’ and they’re holdin’ on to their fuckin’ pig jobs ’cause of that little fuckin’ paycheck and workin’ themselves up, you know. Up […] Continue reading
Break the Dishes by Arlene Brown
Disruptive guerrilla actions became a big part of the work on tour. Disrupting a faculty meeting at Keuka College, disrupting Plimpton speaking to students at Amherst, disrupting classrooms, etc. Each action had basically the same two-fold purpose: To advertise our evening performance and to interrupt the bullshit of the moment, whether it be the President’s […] Continue reading
Send some love to the world!
Dear Old Hippy, I just don’t understand all of the haters today… racists, gangs, it is insane. How can anyone say i hate everyone? It’s not possible. I find an infinite love for everything. There is good in every person. You just have to believe it and find it. My faith in humanity wears everyone […] Continue reading
Something in my heart
Dear old hippy, hello my name is kimber and i am 17 years old. A lot of my friends have left town to join a thing called the renaissance festival. Right now it is in arizona I really want to join but everyone thinks it is a bad idea since you live out of a […] Continue reading
Rolling Stones Concert Review (1969)
On November 29, the Stones played their second concert in Boston. The first, over three years ago, had been played in Manning Bowl in Lynn. Then the press referred to the Stones as the GROUP SECOND TO THE BEATLES, but to the bikies, high school kids and college rock freaks who packed the Bowl, sat […] Continue reading
Bootleg Records (1970)
Madison (WI) has seen a rash of bootleg records-most sold at super high prices-and the gigantic profits going to who knows who. Now, however, some of us who feel that freak-rock belongs to the people from where it came, have liberated Dylan and Beatles tapes and returned the music to the people. Here’s the story, […] Continue reading
Music, Capitalism & Revolution (1969)
Stop Look, what’s that sound. Everybody look what’s goin’ down. by Bonny Cohen (with a little help from Keith Maillard) The sound is rock music. What’s going down is money. Columbia records nets billions from sales. On album jackets recording artists are called revolutionaries, but CBS, which owns Columbia, has defense contracts to help murder […] Continue reading
The System Does Not Work by Marvin Garson (1969)
The Democratic National Convention ended for me in December, with a 20-day stretch in the Chicago House of Correction. I was the only political prisoner in a dormitory of about fifty men-some of them criminals, some outlaws, some there entirely by mistake. In the evenings we would drag out our mattresses and blankets and lay […] Continue reading
Liberation Magazine (1956-1977)
The monthly magazine Liberation was founded, published, and edited by David Dellinger from 1956-1975 out of New York. In the 1970s it became increasingly collectivized, and by 1977 was edited by Jan Edwards and Michael Nill out of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Once Dellinger was gone, it went the way of most left publications of that era […] Continue reading