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Abbott Hoffman, Aka — Part 22
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aw The march to where? ™
HR: The biernadonal Armonithea.
CT
Senso
tre, where the convention 4s,
Phere ts definitely a march that
the mobilization is planning.
L: Those wlawishto.o7In other
words it’s optional for those who
wish to fo on the march?
H; Ail the eveats are optional,
of course,
L: What are you going to dowhen
you get there?
H: They plan to have a rally and
vigil, Our feeling is that peeple
who plan to go on that march or to
participate in civil disobedience
in downtown Chicago, as many
groups are planaing to do, ought
to be prozaived for a very heavy
scone, There ere ten thousand
Nationat Guard troops here,
Thore’s an eight foot barbed wire
fence with-a mile clreumference
around the Amphitheatre and an-
other fence within that, Very
heavy scene,
AUGUST 29th and 30th: We have
unschecuied events, although we -
plan to silll be in the park,
L; What events?
H: Wo’re unsure whal’s going to
happen that night, We do have
plans to do a death of Yippie
ceremony, Whore we burn afl the
posters and butions, ete.
L: Is that like the desth of Hip-
pie? Does that mean that Yinpee
fs only for this cccasion?
H: Our message is that people
are free, They shouldn't have
labels, ‘
L: But you're not adopting the
Free Man label thst they are in
San Francisco? Or ara you?
H: Well, birth of the free people,
L: Well, that's similar to the
San Franelsco event, But they
are keeping the name Free Sian,
“youtnew,
H; We are working mainly on Wie
roonts of the first three days, and
_ _
w+
ee = al tae at eit. 8 ec
O
bs—Then youl have the deaths oF
Yippie, and thal will be the cad
of this event?
HW: Yes,
L: Who else is coming besides
Allen? That you know of,
Hr:
Burrouzas, Genet,
L: Genet? I diaa’t krow he was
ta the country,
H: He's covering it for FSQUIRE,
Krassnor, of course, Ed Saniers
ts coming in tomorrow. He's the
music coordinator, There are two
croups of rock musicians, One
group of abcut twenty bands fs
tolally committed to coming, no
malter what, Another group often
(watch includes the heaviest
bands) is committed to coming
only if we col apermit, They may
be talked Into coming anyway,
L: Does that inctude the Afr-
plane?
H: The Airplane never was com-
ing in the first place,
L: How about Country Joe?
He. That would includ: Country
Joe and the Fish, Ario Guthrie ts
in the second group, Uwe geta
permit only,
L: How about the United States
of America?
H: I'm not sure where thoy are,
Er’s goiug to start the coorcina-
tion from hese, They pledjed to
come, but we haven’ Ubceit in touch
with then, It’s very difficutt for
us to give them information, They”
always ask you (s there 4 pera?
Now concerning the permit sit-
uation, We've had numerous cis-
cussions ond negotiations with
Deputy Mayor David Stahl, The
city officials are very scared,
They dowt inow what the hell to
do, sed we just impressed upon
them the tremendous number of
peopte coming.
L: What about the tremendous
number of poople? What word do
you have tat there will be a great
sotting up infern.ation Loetveatd ¢ number of pronle?
prepzring maps ondtzaining ses-
and atl that, “.
—— ee,
nee
Tine y
“Fe
H:
There were {vio thousand n-agie,
———y,
>
~4h.
Sst. Suushine is coming.
ta
We tad a relly yesterday.
.
te ee .
TT ee a em tin
faobhase: Qasumed from “estat.
that you cout) pet forether anys
where from tvs fothree thousand
Peopie in Chiraso alone,
HM; Yosh, they were at the rally
yesterday,
L; What aboutother celtics, onthe
East and West Cotsts.
H;: Well, there are bike groups
comiag in. J would cxpect 20-25,
000 poople from New York alone,
Every free bus is already booked
in New York,
L: Have you hac any Indication
from the West Coast?
H: A guy named Super Joe, the
guy that put the fiewers iu the
yesterday and sald that a lot of
i people fears Berkeley had siready
started oul, We've gotten letters
from L,A,, from the Coast and
even from Canada that say they're
\ rifles at the Pealngzon czme in
1
! corning, Our facling fs that we
| wou't got a permit, bul that they
will tolerate the event,
L: How aboul policing the evant?
HR: We piantopolice itourselves,
That’s what the Graining session
is about,
L: Of cow” 2 you'll ive moni-
tors, but dil ihe city express any
view ca this fssue?
H: They have not given us any
real information, They're just
trying (o get infor mation fromus,
L: ts Jerry Rubin wel} enoughto
ationd?
HR: Yes, Nel be hore intwo more
@ays. ll give you my ows private
Rumber: 312 area cede 327-9244,
L; How about crash pads for poo-~
pie coming, Is thereany vrrange-
ment of this sort?
H: We're raaking arrangements
with people thal live near tie park
for the housing of pocpin who
come before the Ziti. Aor that
e-would rather have evaystey
sleep in the pari, We foot that exer
strengun is it numbers oH het
the police woa'l do anytiing if
Hires are a lotof poopie thee. --
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