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Abbie Hoffman — Part 33

100 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Apr 28, 1971 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 100 pages OCR'd
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ee Eernne ert a ' or OC 176-22 (Unidentified voice from audiences "I'm not cynical. I just want toe lmow what youre doing bk that needs to be done. You're sitting to a bunch of people who agree with you.") “I'1L tell you something. un ne Fon aim fH tha * FN ee ee ere talking Somaone called me Bt two &.M. an tne worming last night and he didn’t agree at all. In fact, we had to move pretty quick. I'11 tell you, that would be weird you know, cause people in Oklehona erreed. (Illegible), but it's possible, things that I don't understand. I mean, there are Seventy-five per cent of the people now favor inmediate withdraval _ from Vietnam in the country, according to the polls, and yet the Goverment docen't move. Well, you know, I'm saying that, you Iniow, it has to go beyond this, you know, petty Little dialogue here, the people have to begin to move. That they can’t learn any of the things that I wrote about in that book, about swiping, about living as an outlaw, about creating radical change in this country unless they do it. know what a pear tastes like is NAO's frermamiee wank ayence finn nme The cnly way you take a bite, that IAO'sS Lamous rock group from the East. And revolution ls the same wey. If you want to lnow about it, you have to get in and work with the struggle, to work with the contradictions, you know, and fight and you can do it risht, you can do it here in Oklahoma. JULIUS HOrfHsh is the judge down the street. Every political trial at Chicago takes place every day here. Because all trials are political, It just takes a lawyer with certain kind cf vision, you-knoiwv, to sce it as a political trial and it takes certain kinds of people who identify and recognize that all trials are political, you lmew, and that the institutions of the courts are not there for there to protect the power and property of people who already have it, and you start locki justice, but are ng around like that and (illegible) all the early misfits, you imow, we were taught in schools, we can start to struggle, you kuow, we got to do it. (Illegible ques- tion asked in audience.) Muh? I've got the flu, so, em nme ewe
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