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Abbie Hoffman — Part 31
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a E to wash those hs‘ out of our minds and begin to
= - see those so-called reasonable, responsible, rational
people that mm the banks, that run this miversity,
that run the Govermment, and you look ar and
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seen them all,
"So we hope you come to Washington and if you
don't, we hope you'll sign the People’s Peace Treaty
and declare peace and live it, and start to build a
new society, a new nation, you know, that refects
the velues and the institutions, the competition and
the greed and the brutality of a decadent racist
empire whose days have come, and like the dinosaurs
of old, the Philistines in Washington, we go down
there, we'll be joyously dancing on their graves,
because we kmow their days have come. We know we
can whip them in court rooms, we can whip them in
the’ street and whip them right in their own office
buildings, right in their own nests, and I hope
you can swipe a plane or something and come on
down. If you can’t make it, you might come out on
May 5, you know, and go on strike in this mursery
school, you know, and join the nationwide student
strike on May fifth, you know. But all the dates,
the dates are just high points in a, in an organizer's
trip. I mean we have got to begin to live the revolu-
tion in our daily lives and begin to have, you know,
get our minds straight so we walk down the street,
every place we go, we see an issue, every place we
go, we see pigs, you lkmow, and then we begin ta ~
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“We're, we got some bread from last night's
rappin’ and goes to a radio station that we started
called WPAX, a group of us in New York; and we
noticed for a long time there's been a tremendous
communication gap in the information broadcast b
the Voice of America and the Armed Forces Networ
and we prepared these tapes ~ radio shows, and we
send them to government s and stations around the
world that will play them two hours a day for
servicemen and servicewomen overseas;and we think
that if we are gonna affect U. S. foreign policy,
we've got to reach the people in the front lines
that are carryin’ it out and any day now before
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