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Hace 3 días · A filmed debate between the yippie-socialist Abbie Hoffman and the yuppie class-traitor Jerry Rubin. Hoffman and Rubin were both famous activists from the 1960s and co-founders of the Youth International Party, whose affiliates were known as "yippies." The debate was held in 1986 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Rubin also gets a pie to the face near the end.
Hace 2 días · In the summer of 1971, The Committee to Free John Sinclair organized their largest benefit yet — securing the University of Michigan’s new Crisler Arena for December 10, and booking a lineup of prominent activist speakers and performers, including Bob Seger, Stevie Wonder, and even former Beatle John Lennon, who— after talking with Yippie pals Ed Sanders and Jerry Rubin — agreed to ...
Hace 3 días · This is a video about Abbie Hoffman, a key figure in the anti-totalitarian movement in the United States. It's from a beautiful time when opponents of the Vi...
Hace 1 día · The Yippies, especially their leaders Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, became notorious for their theatrics, such as trying to levitate the Pentagon at the October 1967 war protest, and such slogans as "Rise up and abandon the creeping meatball!"
Hace 3 días · Anti-Vietnam War protestors, Rennie Davis, Tom Hayden, Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, David Dellinger, Bobby Seale, Lee Weiner and John Froines made preparations to protest against the Vietnam War at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, in 1968. Trying to stop dissent, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley denied all protest permits except to hold ...
Hace 3 días · By Sanford J. UngarFebruary 1974 IssueAs trials go, it was both a nostalgia piece—a kind of No, No, Nanette of the federal court season—and a clumsy anachronism. Nostalgia, because here were the Chicago Seven, relics from that tense and painful past when the country was torn apart by the Vietnam War...
Hace 4 días · Synopsis. What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history. Videos: Trailers, Teasers, Featurettes. Cast. Eddie Redmayne. Tom Hayden. Sacha Baron Cohen. Abbie Hoffman. Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Richard Schultz. Michael Keaton. Ramsey Clark.
