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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The Post Competitive Comparative Game of a Free City (1968)
Our state of awareness demands that we uplift our efforts from competitive game playing in the underground to the comparative roles of free families in free cities. We must pool our resources and interact our energies to provide the freedom for our individual activities. In each city of the world there is a loose competitive […] Continue reading
Disruption of the New Left, an FBI Counterintelligence Program (1968)
COINTELPRO letter from J. Edgar Hoover to Special Agent in Charge, Albany SAC, Albany 7/5/68 Director, FBI (100-449698) COUNTERINTELLIGENCE PROGRAM INTERNAL SECURITY DISRUPTION OF THE NEW LEFT (COINTELPRO – NEW LEFT) Bulet 5/10/68 requested suggestions for counterintelligence action against the New Left. The replies to the Bureau’s request have been analyzed and it is felt […] Continue reading
Genocide by Jean-Paul Sartre
The word genocide is relatively new. It was coined by the jurist Raphael Lemkin between the two world wars. But the fact of genocide is as old as humanity. To this day there has been no society protected by its structure from committing that crime. Every case of genocide is a product of history and […] Continue reading
Ramparts Magazine (1962-1975)
Founded by a rich convert, Ramparts magazine was envisaged as a monthly Church-and-secular-affairs magazine for moderately hip Catholic lay people. By a twist of fate, the magazine fell into the hands of journalist (and former Catholic-school problem child) Warren Hinckle, who became its editor. What happened next is subject to interpretation. According to the revisionist […] Continue reading
Understanding Orgasm (1968)
Tiresias who had been both man and woman, was asked, as Ovid’s legend goes, to mediate in a dispute between Jove and Juno as to which sex got more pleasure from lovemaking. Tiresias unhesitatingly answered that women did. Yet in the intervening 2000 years between Ovid’s time and our own, a mythology has been built […] Continue reading
About The Hippie Archives
Welcome to the Hippie Archives. In this section we store some important original works, documents and images from the period of the 1960s-1970s that have influenced people and society. We are scouring sources for these items to put online as a FREE educational service to preserve and perpetuate the spirit and values of that period. […] Continue reading
2003 – What a year!
I guess it’s time to write another end-of-the-year editorial about what happened on Hippyland & the Hip Forums. First, the site continued to grow rapidly with our registered membership reaching 45,000. This has affected the performance of the site, and thus we shall move it to a new server yet again early next year. This […] Continue reading
A Call to Arms (1969?)
A People’s Militia should be formed in Berkeley. Collective, armed self-defense is needed to protect our community against the dual threat of an expanding police state and right-wing vigilantism. Our community is creating collective institutions upon which our lifestyles and politics can be realized. We are building a Tenants’ Union to deal with housing conditions, […] Continue reading
The Spirit of Going Barefoot
The Spirit of Going Barefoot by Jon The Barefoot Pilgrim. E-mail: wotnoshoes@bigfoot.com I’d just like to share with you some of my thoughts about the spirit of barefooting. I own a book called Barefoot Dreaming by Adele Coombs which is a collection of creative prose and photography inspired by the natural landscape of Australia. She […] Continue reading
Common Sense by Paul Williams
COMMON SENSE A guide to the present situation By Paul Williams (author of Das Energi) Copyright 1982 Our purpose here is to take action and have an effect on the world. We have been born into a moment of unprecedented danger and opportunity. Our failure to act is itself a choice. There is nowhere to […] Continue reading