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Abbie Hoffman — Part 29

130 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Apr 13, 1970 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 128 pages OCR'd
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ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN “prison--it's sorta weird, you know, like standing in the middle of this fuckin country and the CIA is on one side and MGM is on the other and everybody is bidding for your fuckin scalp--sometimes you get the feeling that the revolution will come not so much by popular will as by popular demand." (Laughter: "Well, Bobby Seale--we get kind of uptight when people Bay it's Chicago Seven because even though Julius axed Bebby in the middle of the trial for what the press commonly terms antics, it's the first time demanding the right to have a lawyer of your choice and then when that's denied demanding the right to defend yourself has ever been termed an antic in this country--an antic punishable by four years in prison. We're still the Chicago he we're the Chicago Ten Million because a lot of people consider ; 3 themselves part of the conspiracy." (Light clapping) no “Well, they're trying to send Bobby Seale into the — electric chair in a place called New Haven, Connecticut--one of ~ the enlightened intellectual centers of the liberal East. They 3 Ente Eight, in fact we're the Chicago Ten ‘cause the two lawyers; have a4 university up there, just like this. It's not an irrational unreasonable antic-type place. It's run by reasonable men, rational men, nonviolent men--call themselves the Board of Trustees. I think it's about the twelfth largest corporation in America, Yale eed sr is. In fact, New Haven is nothing but a ghetto and Yale
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