Youth International Party

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music festivals, radio and television shows, rock bands, T-shirts, buttons, (decades later) countless websites and other related social phenomena. The die-hard dedication to the 'option' of Nobody for President and None of the Above has not abated since the counter-cultural 70s, but has only grown,

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A frequent 'national' complaint among Yippies was that the New York 'central HQ' chapter acted as if other chapters did not exist and kept them out of the decision-making process. At one point, at a YIP conference in Ohio in 1972, Yippies voted to 'exclude' Abbie and Jerry as official spokespersons

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Some of the brokers, clerks and stock runners below laughed and waved; others jeered angrily and shook their fists. The bills barely had time to land on the ground before guards began removing the group from the building, but news photos had been taken and the Stock Exchange "happening" quickly slid

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as a political act was invented by Yippies. The first political pie throwing was carried out in Bloomington, Indiana, October 14, 1969, when Jim Retherford, former underground newspaper editor and ghost writer of Jerry Rubin's Do It!, landed a cream pie in the face of former UC Berkeley president

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in New York City for $ 1.2 million. After official purchase, it was converted into the "Yippie Museum/Café and Gift Shop", housing a multitude of counter-cultural and leftist memorabilia from all over the world, as well as providing an independently operated café that featured live music on

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through the downtown area in which they intimidated shoppers, splattered paint and burned an American flag. The demonstrators, members of the Youth International Party, or Yippies, completed the spree through downtown by jumping into the reflecting pool at City Hall in the sweltering Dallas

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to make a point of exploiting mass media. Colorful, theatrical Yippie actions were tailored to attract media coverage and also to provide a stage where people could express the "repressed" Yippie inside them. "We believe every nonyippie is a repressed yippie," Jerry Rubin wrote in

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Once outside, the activists formed a circle, holding hands and chanting "Free! Free!" At one point, Hoffman stood in the center of the circle and lit the edge of a $ 5 bill while grinning madly, but an NYSE runner grabbed it from him, stamped on it, and said: "You're disgusting."

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Along with the name Youth International Party, the organization was also simply called Yippie!, as in a shout for joy (with an exclamation mark to express exhilaration). "What does Yippie! mean?" Abbie Hoffman wrote. "Energy – fun – fierceness – exclamation point!"

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in Chicago's water supply. "We will fuck on the beaches! ... We demand the Politics of Ecstasy! ... Abandon the Creeping Meatball! ... And all the time 'Yippie! Chicago – August 25–30.'" First on a list of Yippie demands: "An immediate end to the war in Vietnam."

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In Summer 2013, The Yippie Cafe officially closed. At the beginning of 2014, the Yippie building (Museum) at #9 Bleecker was sold, closed and permanently cleaned out; most of the memorabilia and historic materials dispersed among the remaining New York Yippies.

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hippies and political activists. In the process of cross-fertilization at antiwar demonstrations, we had come to share an awareness that there was a linear connection between putting kids in prison for smoking pot in this country and burning them to death with

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Conspiracy trial of 1969. They both used the phrase "ideology is a brain disease" to separate the Yippies from mainstream political parties that played the game by the rules. Hoffman and Rubin were arguably the most colorful of the seven defendants accused of

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with the long-haired, grass-smoking lifestyle of the counterculture. Today that combination is so familiar that many people don't even realize that the protesters and the hippies initially distrusted each other. What seems most curious about the yippies

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group of pranksters began throwing handfuls of one-dollar bills over the railing, laughing the entire time. (The exact number of bills is a matter of dispute; Hoffman later wrote that it was 300, while others said no more than 30 or 40 were thrown.)

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The Yippies' unorthodox approach to revolution, which emphasized spontaneity over structure, and media blitz over community organizing, put them almost as much at odds with the rest of the left as with mainstream culture. Wrote (Jerry) Rubin in the

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and draw a crowd of tens if not hundreds of thousands from across the country. The city of Chicago refused to issue any permits for the festival and most musicians withdrew from the project. Of the rock bands who had agreed to perform, only the

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and a protest against the state of the nation. This was supposed to counter the "Convention of Death." This promised to be "the blending of pot and politics into a political grass leaves movement – a cross-fertilization of the hippie and

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Yippie Betty "Zaria" Andrew ran as the Youth International Party's candidate for mayor in 1970. One of her campaign promises was to repeal every law, including the law of gravity so that everyone could get high. That same year,

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building. After the permit was denied, the Yippies said that it just goes to show you can't work within the system to change the system. "This destroys my last hope for legal channels," said Detroit Yippie Jumpin' Jack Flash.

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and other "strait-laced types" needed a more formal name to take the movement seriously. That same night she came up with Youth International Party, because it symbolized the movement and made for a good play on words.

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below, some of whom booed, while others began to scramble frantically to grab the money as fast as they could. The visitors' gallery was closed until a glass barrier could be installed, to prevent similar incidents.

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movement. "We want everyone to control their own life and to care for one another ... We cannot tolerate attitudes, institutions, and machines whose purpose is the destruction of life, the accumulation of profit."

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yodeling while wearing their flag shirts. Hoffman insisted that the flag represented all Americans, including those opposed to the war; he resisted efforts of the Right to annex it as their exclusive ideological

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has an interesting task, playing the role, since Hoffman seems on autopilot much of the time. He is charismatic and has an instinctive grasp of the dramatic gesture, but can be infuriating on a one-to-one level

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If the prank accomplished nothing else, it helped cement Hoffman's reputation as one of America's most outlandish and creative protestors ... the "Yippie" movement quickly became a prominent part of America's

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On the final day of the Madison conference, April 4, 1971, hundreds of riot police broke up a block party organized by local Yippies to cap the event, resulting in a street clash between Yippies and police.

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YIP was a member of the coalition of anti-Vietnam War activists who, over several days in early May 1971, tried to shut down the US government by occupying intersections and bridges in Washington, D.C. The

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movement in 1979. Rock Against Racism USA later morphed into the critically acclaimed, Yippie-organized, widely recognized national Rock Against Reagan tour in 1983. Well-known bands on the tour included

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in 1976. This represented an incipient libertarian impulse of Yippies and the first example in the United States of this election ballot alternative, in what one of the resolution's two co-sponsors,

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The Youth International Party quickly spread beyond Rubin, Hoffman and the other founders. YIP had chapters all over the US and in other countries, with particularly active groups in New York City,

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From the experimental combination of Isla Vista local politics, presidential campaigns and the Yippies, the name and spirit of this unexpected ballot initiative spread quickly—in the form of

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stared down courtroom farce to decide the civil dispute of the era: the Movement vs. the Establishment. The eight defendants seemed finically chosen to represent the world of dissent:

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shows a different flag for the new nation. It is not the marijuana leaf. It has the word NOW under what looks like the all-seeing eye on a pyramid seen on the back of a dollar bill.

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not just to his girlfriend but to "Dope, Color TV, and Violent Revolution." Even when praising a form of mass culture that had earned some grudging respect from the late-'60s left—

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According to the original curator's message, the museum was founded "to preserve the history of the Youth International Party and all of its offshoots." The Board of Directors:

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The flag for the "new nation" consisted of a black background with a red five pointed star in the center and a green marijuana leaf superimposed over it (same as the YIP flag).

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Rights in Conflict: The violent confrontation between demonstrators and police in the parks and streets of Chicago during the week of the Democratic National Convention

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to keep from being identified in photographs. Other Yippies reveled in the spotlight, allowing their stealthier comrades the anonymity they needed for their pranks.

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were Yippies. "I helped design the party, formulate the idea of what Yippie was going to be, in the early part of 1968," Ochs testified at the Chicago Eight trial.

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The Yippies continued as a small movement into the early 2000s. The New York chapter was known for their annual marches for decades in New York City to legalize

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Following the convention, eight protesters were charged with conspiracy to incite the riots. Their trial, which lasted five months, was heavily publicized. The

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We needed a name to signify the radicalization of hippies, and I came up with Yippie as a label for a phenomenon that already existed, an organic coalition of

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which has been called the original Yippie book. This book claims that there were no actual yippies, and that the name was just a term used to create a myth.

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gave the movie a positive review, remarking that although it is often difficult to credibly bring historic events to life, he believed the movie succeeded:

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to "fight the New Right with Yippie-like myth-making tactics." The Brain Trust was inspired by a series of meetings and interviews between Wagner and

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Many Yippies were involved in the underground press. Some were the editors of major underground newspapers or alternative magazines, including Yippies

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club called "Overthrow", deliberately and artfully retaining much of its original Yippie/60s-revolutionary decor. Tourists still drop by to see it.

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scheduled nights. The cafe closed in summer 2011 and reopened in December the same year with a renovated basement. The museum was chartered by the

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is the way they mixed hard left politics with a deep appreciation for pop culture. Abbie Hoffman announced that he wanted to combine the styles of

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In 2004, the Yippies, along with the National AIDS Brigade, purchased the long-time Yippie "headquarters" (which had initially been acquired by

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We shall not defeat Amerika by organizing a political party. We shall do it by building a new nation—a nation as rugged as the marijuana leaf.

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Review: They Fought the Law ; Aaron Sorkin and an all-star cast re-enact a real-life '60s courtroom drama with present-day implications"

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Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin became the most famous Yippies—and bestselling authors—in part due to publicity surrounding the five-month

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During an anti-war protest in Washington, D.C., on November 15, 1969, East Coast Yippies led thousands of youths in the storming of the

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The New Yippie Book Collective (eds.), Blacklisted News: Secret Histories from Chicago to 1984, page 514. Bleecker Publishing, 1983.

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Radical musicians usually found enthusiastic audiences at Yippie-sponsored events and frequently offered to play. YIP-affiliated

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There was a clash with police on March 22, 1968, where a large group of countercultural youths led by the Yippies descended into

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Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs and Counterculture in the Lower East Side

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The Yippies held their first press conference in New York at the Americana Hotel March 17, 1968, five months before the August

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The New Yippie Book Collective, Blacklisted News: Secret Histories from Chicago to 1984, Page 321. Bleecker Publishing, 1983.

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The New Yippie Book Collective, Blacklisted News: Secret Histories from Chicago to 1984, Page 414. Bleecker Publishing, 1983.

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Abbie Hoffman is seen wearing an American flag shirt and getting in trouble for desecrating it; the movie cuts to footage of

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Clark Kerr. Retherford was also the first to be arrested. The next pie was thrown by Tom Forcade, who nailed a member of the

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Democracy in America, Yippie! Guerilla Theater and the Reinvigoration of the American Democratic Process During the Cold War

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account of Chicago during the '68 convention, using actual riot footage as backdrop for the actors and (improvised) events.

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and speculation about tramps on the Grassy Knoll through various websites. Weberman has for a long time been active in the

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when he was the guest on the popular British host's TV program. In all the chaos, a Yippie fired a water pistol into host

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Jonah Raskin, For the hell of it: The life and times of Abbie Hoffman, Page 117, University of California Press, 1996

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Vancouver Yippies Ken Lester and David Spaner were the managers of Canada's two most notorious political punk bands,

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came to Chicago to play and their set was cut short by a clash between the audience of a couple thousand and police.

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and political irreverence was often in direct conflict with the sensibility of the 60s American Left/peace movement:

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in 1970. Columbus Yippie Steve Conliff pied Ohio Governor James Rhodes in 1977 to protest the Kent State shootings.

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Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture: The Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman, First Edition, Perigree Books, 1980, p. 101.

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campus in the mid-1970s, was promoted by Hoffman, who said the book "manages to reach to the limits of bad taste."

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as Jerry Rubin, attracted interest in the topic from a new generation. In October 2008, it appeared nationally on

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DALLAS, Aug 22 — Ninety-nine demonstrators were arrested today outside the Republican National Convention after a

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Columbus Yippies were charged with inciting the rioting that occurred in the city on May 11, 1972, in response to

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Lester Friedman, American cinema of the 1970s: themes and variations, Page 49, NJ Rutgers University Press, 2007

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leaf superimposed over it. When asked about the Yippie flag, an anonymous Yippie identified only as "Jung" told

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an internationally known journal of the anti-authoritarian left, was founded by a core of Vancouver Yippies.

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philosophies." Yippies' sensational statements before the convention were part of the theatrics, including a

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of the late 1960s. It was founded on December 31, 1967. They employed theatrical gestures to mock the social

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was a semi-frequent speaker at the Yippies' Open-Mic, known as "Occupational Hazards/The People's Soapbox."

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Neil A. Hamilton, The ABC-CLIO companion to the 1960s counterculture in America, Page 339, ABC-CLIO, 1997

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activist. Witnesses like Jerry Rubin have openly boasted of their contempt for American institutions. A

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Neil Hamilton, The ABC-CLIO companion to the 1960s counterculture in America, Page 340, ABC-CLIO, 1997.

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David T. Dellinger, Judy Clavir and John Spitzer, The Conspiracy Trial, page 349. Bobbs-Merrill, 1970.

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David T. Dellinger, Judy Clavir and John Spitzer, The Conspiracy Trial, page 601. Bobbs-Merrill, 1970.

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On another occasion, police stopped Hoffman at the building entrance and arrested him for wearing an

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The Yippie "New Nation" concept called for the creation of alternative, counterculture institutions:

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Yippies mocked the system and its authority. The Youth International Party, having nominated a pig (

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nation rooted in the borderless hippie counterculture and its communal ethos. Abbie Hoffman wrote:

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As of 2017, the old Yippie building at #9 Bleecker had been totally transformed into a successful

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Aron "The Pieman" Kay became the best-known Yippie pie-thrower. Kay's many targets included Sen.

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In the fifties, the most effective sanction was terror. Almost any publicity from HUAC meant the '

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Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America

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Forty years ago, the yippies seemed unusual because they fused the political radicalism of the

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NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: GREENWICH VILLAGE; House of Yippies: Chicago Convention A Recurring Dream

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Sisterhood is powerful : an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement

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On August 7, 1971, a Yippie smoke-in in Vancouver was attacked by police, resulting in the

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The annual July 4 Yippie smoke-in in Washington, D.C., became a counterculture tradition.

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By contrast, Jerry Rubin became a fast-talking (and by all accounts, fairly successful)

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for a "Yip-In". The night erupted into a violent clash with police that Don McNeill of

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The Yippies' love of pop-culture was one way to differentiate the Old and New Left, as

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Once a Jewish hero of the counterculture, Aron Kay looks back on his pie-throwing days

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Rubin, Jerry, DO IT! Scenarios of the Revolution, page 81, Simon and Schuster, 1970.

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unexpectedly taking the Yippie legacy into a new century and succeeding generations.

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Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana – Medical, Recreational and Scientific

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Yippies organized alternative institutions in their counterculture communities. In

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organized event, approximately five miles north of the convention center. The band

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was invented by Krassner, as well Abbie and Anita Hoffman, on New Year's Eve 1967.

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Jonah Raskin, For the Hell of It, page 129. University of California Press, 1996.

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Jonah Raskin, For the Hell of It, University of California Press, Page 228, 1996.

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Jonah Raskin, For the Hell of It, page 132. University of California Press, 1996.

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Abbie Hoffman, Soon to be a Major Motion Picture, page 128. Perigee Books, 1980.

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K.R. Alper; H.S. Lotsof; C.D. Kaplan (2008). "The Ibogaine Medical Subculture".

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Abbie Hoffman, Soon to be a Major Motion Picture, page 278. Perigee Books, 1980.

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Abbie Hoffman, Soon to be a Major Motion Picture, page 170. Perigee Books, 1980.

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Play, Creativity, and Social Movements: If I Can't Dance, It's Not My Revolution

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The Party of Fear: From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History

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Steal This Dream: Abbie Hoffman & the Countercultural Revolution in America

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MDC: Memoir from a Damaged Civilization: Stories of Punk, Fear, and Redemption

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PHOTO: Nobody For President, Curtis Spangler and Wavy Gravy, October 12, 1976

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Abbie Hoffman, Soon to be a Major Motion Picture, p. 86. Perigee Books, 1980.

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Confessions of a raving, unconfined nut: misadventures in the counter-culture

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the first of the anarchist zines later to become so popular in many cities.

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Stew Albert, Who the Hell is Stew Albert?, Page 131. Red Hen Press, 2003.

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Generation on Fire: Voices of Protest From The 1960s : An oral history

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YIPster Times, "Midwest Activism featuring May Midwest" p. 2, December 1977

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Yippie organizers hoped that well-known musicians would participate in the

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Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll: The Rise of America's 1960s Counterculture

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High In America: The True Story Behind NORML And The Politics Of Marijuana

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in Chicago. YIP planned a six-day Festival of Life – a celebration of the

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flag, shouted that the police were Communists for not arresting him also.

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Abbie Hoffman, Revolution For the Hell of It, page 81. Dial Press, 1968.

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and several other singer-songwriters also performed during the festival.

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PHOTO : Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan hit with pie by Aron Kay, 1976

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Yippies were active in alternative music and movies. Singer-songwriters

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A Yippie flag was often seen at anti-war demonstrations. The flag had a

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Punk in NYC's Lower East Side 1981–1991: Scene History Series, Volume 1

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Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven

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from HUAC would be unlikely to scandalize Abbie Hoffman or his friends.

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OffTheGrid : Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

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At the Edge of History: Speculations on the Transformation of Culture

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and showed no regrets. In 1994 he was fatally injured by a car while

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Jerry Rubin published his account of the Yippie movement in his book

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reported it with an article titled: "Yipes! The Yippies Are Coming!"

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Democracy is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago

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Throughout this decade, NYC Yippies frequently joined in local anti-

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Leaflet advertising Yippie-sponsored Rock Against Racism concert in

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Another famous prank just before the term "Yippie" was coined was a

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Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000

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Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000

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approving this option in a change to state election laws in 1986.

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Yippies went to city hall and applied for a permit to blow up the

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Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism

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Abbie Hoffman, Woodstock Nation, back cover. Vintage Books, 1969.

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Collision at Home Plate: The Lives of Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti

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Woodstock Census: The Nationwide Survey of the Sixties Generation

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for president, competing against both "Nobody for President" and

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in 1972 and published in New York City; the name was changed to

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up-yours." Years earlier Steen had been a Yippie activist with

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and a group of future Yippies managed to get into a tour of the

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List of American politicians who have acknowledged cannabis use

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Jerilyn Lee Brandelius, "Every Structure Became a Dwelling" in

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Anti-Disciplinary Protest: Sixties Radicalism and Postmodernism

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Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City

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US National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence

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List of British politicians who have acknowledged cannabis use

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The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night

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The Ballad of Ken and Emily: or, Tales from the Counterculture

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recounts efforts by a guerrilla street theater gang named the

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The Ballad of Ken and Emily: or, Tales from the Counterculture

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The most famous writing to come out of the Yippie movement is

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1960s American youth-oriented counter-cultural political party

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Blacklisted News: Secret Histories from Chicago, '68, to 1984

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Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America

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Cannabis law reform organizations based in the United States

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The Paper Revolutionaries: The Rise of the Underground Press

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Blacklisted News: Secret Histories from Chicago '68, to 1984

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In June 1971, Abbie Hoffman and Al Bell started the pioneer

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Pie Any Means Necessary: The Biotic Baking Brigade Cookbook

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Rock Against Racism USA - Tour Dates & Concert Calender

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Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book, page 73. Grove Press, 1971.

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YIPster Times, "Abbie Hoffman: Back to Chicago," June 1978

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The Youth International Party founded the US branch of the

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from the party, since they had become too famous and rich.

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Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War

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Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District

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Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War

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Judith Clavir Albert; Stewart Edward Albert, eds. (1984).

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Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital

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The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate

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Tales of the Lavender Menace : A Memoir of Liberation

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Mass Media and the Shaping of American Feminism, 1963–1975

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protests over the continuing transformation of New York's

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was a groundbreaking effort to place a new voting option,

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of the Yippies in 1967, and again in the aftermath of the

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in 1968. They have been described as a highly theatrical,

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State and local political parties (without national body)

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National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam

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National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam

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that "The black is for anarchy. The red star is for our

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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the cannabis industry

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Theatre in the Raw, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, 2011

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the who – woodstock incident with abbie hoffman and pete

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and fellow founding-Yippie, popular New York radio host

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during the presidential primary campaign of that year.)

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had become treasurer of a student-led campaign to elect

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Yippie van makes a few passes by the July 4th Smoke-In,

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Groove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion

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