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

Judy Collins | Posted 11.23.2009 | 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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Anniversary: Chicago '68

Michael Kaplan | Posted 10.14.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Police Brutality, Vietnam War Protests, Riot, 1968, Chicago, Yippies, Convention, Chicago News
Michael Kaplan

All things converged to one night: tonight, forty-one years ago. The police found the fuse and lit it.

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Interview with an Investigative Satirist

Paul Krassner | Posted 03.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Abortion, Lsd, Atheism, Weather Underground Press, Cia, 9/11, Disneyland, Yippies, Counterculture, Timothy Leary, The Realist, Satire, Charles Manson, Groucho Marx, Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Garca, Media News
Paul Krassner

I thought that some of you might enjoy this Q&A with me in The Sun magazine, an oasis in the desert of gossip mongering And while I'm here in Blogsvi...

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Whole World Watching Grant Park, Again

Howard Wolinsky | Posted 12.06.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Hippies, Mayor Richard Daley, Barack Obama, Yippies, Grant Park Rally, Obama Rally, Chicago Riots, Obama Victory, Grant Park, Chicago News
Howard Wolinsky

American flags were waving Tuesday night over Grant Park as they celebrated the Obama win. Back in '68, the riot in Grant Park started when a protester tried to lower an American flag.

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