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Abbie Hoffman — Part 26

163 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Apr 30, 1969 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 160 pages OCR'd
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: ee ae 1 t rt een ¥ 1 hot at aed iew.. ta He | + | 7,7 rm ~t 4: _— FCT F ] a + : CV 176-97 DOUGLAS: HOFFMAN; alive like he was talking about a dying death. Well, they already see that. They see their parents. There into that. They're already iin that coma called American life, and, uh, they don't want it. They reject it and so they seek other things. And they end up in San Francisco and New York. It's just cause the oceans are there. They just keep going, but the oceans, but the oceans are there so they stop at the edge of the ocean and settle in. Some go across, They' ve gone all over Africa, Greece. I don't know, islands. People are running away. What's a good an ; ‘ People find out. You see, what the hippies found out is that when they pull out to like say Hill Communion in Vermont or Colorado, to do their little thing, or in Florida, with an old friend and start a little community. Well, that, uh, this is a threat to the parent culture, The parent culture sends in their, you know, their cops. They | own the _COPS, they send them in, get em out. So they found out that they have to fight. So, in fact, there are no hippies except in Time Magazine any more. But there are none on the lower East Side, and i, I'm not sure that there ever were any. I never was a hippie, and none of my cousins ever called themselves hippies. But we knew that, you see, we knew the way that the media, the media has to label things, you see, 50 we just said, well, hippie, Okay, Wow. We'll just change the H to a Y, make it Yippie, and then just stick our information in, cause anytime anyone hears the word Yippie, they'll say, wow, yeah, oh I know what a yippie tis. They go to Chicago during the Democratic con- vention. You see. It's already defined. And that's all it is. The rest is all baloney. It's all made up. So we learn from the media, from their use of the word hippie. ad ~]
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