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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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_—y " Have you got the catalogue? Oh, you got it. What‘s your nane? Butch? You know Butch. Butch has the catalogue. You know this film and the next one, and there are about fifty other films - they're groups in San Francisco, Atlanta, New York's the largest, I guess, Chicago's setartin' up - of filmmakers who make these filus and send them around to schools and show them on the streets, communities and stuff like that. Next one won the academy award for most political relevance by SDS. It was close. There was another film called Cultural Imperialism in Antarctica, that only cost six bucks. This one cost twelve, so I think that's why we won. Twelve bucks = four of us made it. Ed Sanders, who was - I heard he was here last year - he did the soundtrack. Phil Oakes and some other Yippies just made up a song and stuck one in, and G. W. Griffith helped out - you'll see him in there. It was put tog ther by stolen footage and a little extra shooting, and it was made for twelve dollars by four guys who like don't know how to make a film. It's a groovy kind of way to meditate ~ make a movie. Try it, it’s easy. Mayor Daley, I forgot him. Oh, I gotta show you my shirt. I gave this cop some hash and... I wear it to trials and arraignments. I wear it to mod squad. Yippie. Ready, OK, here's Yippie. Oh, this was made for TV, so the words have been changed to protect the innocent. “ How did Oliver win? Well, there was one thing wrong with the film. We did put the LSD in the drinking water. LSD in the drinking water. They've all this evidence, eight people, conspiracy, put LSD in the drinking water. Everything was ready. Insanity. Real mission appears for the government. I'm here to check out a sight for the ABM System. This is one of our key programs. They‘re workin' for us. You see, a couple years ago we thought this country ought to take about eight billion dollars....He's busted, he's calling up DeGaulle. He's going to be the next Secretary of welfare in this country. So he asked me to come up here and look around, so if you know a good spot for it around, let me know. I'll be doing my duty. LSD in the drinking water. "They have fifteen bundred troops in Chicago guarding the filter system in the reservoirs for the LSD, and I'12 call up Deputy Mayor Stall, he's gotta stall for a permit for five months. That's his name, David Stall. There was a judge, we went before a judge in Chicago to get an wee ae ok we ee ee Pet
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