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Abbie Hoffman — Part 5
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ABBIC 10 PPMAN then spoxe and stxrted that he had two
friends with him, one was “cousin CLYDE" frem the "Hell's
Angels" and the other was 32N ORTIZ, who HCFPMAN said was
facing five years in Chicaso for ineiting to riot. HOFFMAN’
Speech was replete with profanities and obscenities and
initially noted that he disapnroved of the presence of the
police in the area of the rally. We first spoke about the
work "repression" and said ‘hat what is hacpentng to the |
panthers and what is soing cn all ver the country is 2 sign
of repression. lia urged the audience to organize and. pointed
out that this rally was an anti-war demonstration and that
the next demonstraticn would be 2 rro-war demonstration
because this would be the beginning of the spring cffensive.
He concluded with the remark that “this is a dying system and
these are symptoms of the dying system and we, the conspiracy
are going to dance :on the grave of this system, free the hy B>)
panthers." .
cerning e suoject's appearance 15 a speaker 2 at the r rally
in Central Park, New York City, on April $, 1969. sponsored
by the FAVPPC.
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Included in the broadcast was the following speech
by ABSIE HOFFRAN:
"Iowasn't asxed to Like give a rap up here but I
got ten minutes of heavy juice thst IT want to give, see. And
ike there's some like funny kind of monitors and the sound
micht go off, but = gct two friends with ma. This ts cousin
CLYDE From Hells Angels. His first LSD trip ke went out and
beat up a cop. ind this is Day ontia. San ORTIZ t3 facing
five years in vhicago for inc!ting ' to rict sce he's got a
loud encugh mother (cbscene) voice so if they cut these mikes
off they'll hear us anyway. ase we got to establish sore
ground rules. The second groun is that we disapprove of .
rallies with beri4e2des. The other ground rule is that these.
cops are not here for dur protection. Right.
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