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Abbie Hoffman — Part 12
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The "Washington Square Journal" in its May 8, 1970,
issue ¢ ontained an article entitled “Hoffman - Kunstler Plead
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" Abbie Hoffinan and attorney William Kunstler,
made impassioned pleas for unity to an overflow crowd of
1200 striking students at Eisner and Lubin Auditorium last
night.
"'This is the week,' Hoffman told the crowd, ‘This
is the week we're going to Washington and place those war
criminals under house arrest. We're going for a search and
destroy mission to find enemy headquarters.'!
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in @ relatively mild display of his flamboyant satirical
style, Hoffman seemed more serious with his audience than usual
At the end of his performance, he explained that we was ‘pooped.'
"tWe don't want to live under a system that makes
war on Southeast Asia and black people,’ Hoffman said. 'What
we've got now is a jailbreak, The biggest (obscene) jail
break this country's every seen,.'
"Hoffman said that people are ‘at wart with the government
and that, 'We refuse to participate in the pig empire that
devours its children for its breakfast program.''
The December, 1968,issue of
"The Bill of Rights Journal" . 4
published by the NECLC, on the !
inside cover lists WILLIAM
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KUNSTLER @s a member of the
National Council of the NECLC.
U. Brooklyn College ,
' Brooklyn, New York
May 14, 1970
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