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( ' - C CONFIDAINTIAL Oo “a WY 100-162445 HOFFMAN invited some questions fromthe audience, but the only clear answer was in response to the question of his movement's relation to the Black Panther Party. HOFFMAN replied, “They are doing their thing, and we are doing ours." IG hat the appearance of the subjec for a speech Union Building on the campus on April 29, 1969, was sponsored by the Associated Students of Gonzaga University (ASGU) as one of the seve Lo $ Week there. The “Spokesman-Review”, Spokane, Washington, in its April 30, 1969 issue on page six containelan article entitled, "Leader Says YIP Fights Fantasy With Fantasy", which stated in part as follows: "the Youth International Party (YIP) is fighting back against American society by pitting its fantasies against the fantasies of America, said one of the party's founders here Tuesday night. "Abbie Hoffman, a yippie founder, told Gonzaga University | students that the flower children have grown thorns and the ‘spring offensive has started. In the summer we'll be in the streets fighting. ' "Hoffman said that the yippies, who are most know for their activities at the Democratic Convention in Chicago, are members of the working class, ‘but are on strike.’ "The Establishment gets especially worried, he said, when people say they won't work. ‘That scares them the most because they're worried about who will pick up the garbage,’ he a ed. cL aan CO tte said there are no jobs worth doing and that our present system i8 dying, It's time to build something better and defend it, and that's what the yippies were trying to do in Lincoln Park in Chicago, he said. + o dame: un 66