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 "The correct stance, especially now in these times, is one foot in the street - the foot of courage, that gets off the curbstone of indifference - and one foot in the system - the intelligent foot, the one that learns how to develop strategies, to build coalitions, to negotiate differences, to raise money, to do mailing lists, to make use of the electronic media. You need that foot, too. The brave foot goes out into the street to strike out against the enculturation process that says: "Stay indoors," "Don't go out in the street," "There's crime in the street," "It's bad in the street," "You lose your job in the street," "You'll be homeless," "It's terrible." Civil disobedience - (I spent my summer vacation chained to a fence) - can be a necessary act of courage, but it doesn't take a hell of a lot of brains."
"Avoid all needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon."
(ME: I suppose another name could be inserted there.)
Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman (November 30, 1936 - April 12, 1989) was a social and political activist in the United States who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies"). Hoffman was arrested and tried for conspiracy and inciting to riot as a result of his role in protests that led to violent confrontations with police during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, along with Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner and Bobby Seale. The group was known collectively as the "Chicago Eight"; when Seale's prosecution was separated from the others, they became known as the Chicago Seven.
Hoffman committed suicide on April 12, 1989. At the time of his death, he was at the height of a renewed public visibility, one of the few '60s radicals who still commanded the attention of all kinds of mass media. He regularly lectured audiences about the CIA's covert activities, including assassinations disguised as suicides. His Playboy article (October, 1988) outlining the connections that constitute the "October Surprise" brought that alleged conspiracy to the attention of a wide-ranging American readership for the first time.
ME: I remember the 1968 convention in Chicago - I was only 17 but had a `friend' who was arrested at those riots. I also remember the Chicago Seven and the name Abbie Hoffman. Looking back now, I am flabbergasted to realize that this guy was only 10 years younger than my mother.
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