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Forty Years After Chicago, We Have Not Found the Things We Lost

Judy Collins | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Convention, Lee Weiner, The Chicago 10, 1968 Democratic National Convention, 1968 Chicago, Judy Collins, Police Brutality, Tom Hayden, Folk Music, Jerry Rubin, Rennie-Davis, Abbie Hoffman, Yippies, David Dellinger, John Froines, Politics News
Judy Collins

The Chicago Seven were very serious peace activists and were baited into a festival of confusion instead of a festival of life in Chicago in 1968, launched to take the focus off the war.

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That's The Way It Wasn't

Sam Leff | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: 1968 Democratic National Convention, Tom Brokaw, 1968, Yippies, Walter Cronkite, 1968 Election, A.O. Scott, Abbie Hoffman, Politics News
Sam Leff

Some forty years after Walter Cronkite told it like it was and called the Chicago of 1968 "a police state," Tom Brokaw, A.O. Scott, and Andie Tucher told their own versions -- like it wasn't.

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Remembering Woodstock: A 13-year-old's Experience Still Resonates Today

Jim Schumacher and Debbie Bookchin | Posted 09.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dave Marsh, Politics, Social Change, Woodstock, Music, Joan Baez, Pete Fornatale, Abbie Hoffman, Taking Woodstock, Entertainment News
Jim Schumacher and Debbie Bookchin

What I remember about Woodstock was that even though I was essentially alone -- dressed only in a tee-shirt and a pair of jeans with a few dollars in my pocket -- I never once felt afraid.

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On the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock

Paul Krassner | Posted 09.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Pete Townshend, Lsd, Wavy Gravy, John Sinclair, Jimi Hendrix, Woodstock, Abbie Hoffman, Woodstock 40th Anniversary, Woodstock Anniversary, Entertainment News
Paul Krassner

Four decades ago, along with 499,999 others on a countercultural pilgrimage, I headed to Woodstock. This was not merely a three-day outdoor concert. This was a Martian convention.

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Woodstock at 40: What it Means Today

Dave Marsh | Posted 09.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Woodstock 30th Anniversary Concert, Woodstock, Woodstock Nation, Sinclair, Abbie Hoffman, Entertainment News
Dave Marsh

The real legacy of Woodstock Nation is felt in the battles to create an American health care system, to end our wars and to save the lives devastated by the finance industry swindles.

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The Who vs Abbie Hoffman: Celebrating Woodstock's 40th Anniversary

Pete Fornatale | Posted 09.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Pete Townshend, The Sixties, The Who, 1960's, Country Joe McDonald, Woodstock, Entertainment News, Music, Book, Peace, Pete Fornatale, Abbie Hoffman, Entertainment News
Pete Fornatale

What happened next provided one of the true Roshomon moments of Woodstock. Actually, that's not strictly speaking true. There were only two versions of what happened next: Hoffman's and everybody else's.

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A Radical Thought: You Can Make A Difference

Julia Moulden | Posted 09.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Abbie Hoffman, Making a Difference, The Giving Life, New Radicals, Julia Moulden, Living News
Julia Moulden

In the immortal title of his bestseller, Steal This Book, Abbie Hoffman summed up the radicals of the 1960s. That era was about challenging the establ...

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What Would Abbie Hoffman Have Thought Of The Flag Lapel Pin Debate?

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: 4th of July, Bill of Rights, First Amendment, Flag, Red White and Blue, Free, Campaign, Fourth of July, Pat Schroeder, 2008 Election, Election, Barack Obama, Abbie Hoffman, Elections, Patriotism, Flag Shirt, Independence Day, Freedom, 2008 Presidential Race, American Flag, Flag Motif, July 4th Patriotism, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Flag lapel pins are all the rage these days, but the battle over wearing the flag is older than you may have thought.

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