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FILM | The Chicago 7 movie and me
It’s that major motion picture Abbie Hoffman lusted after. By Judy Gumbo | The Rag Blog | October 22, 2020 This article was first published at Judy Gumbo’s site, yippiegirl.com, and was cross-posted to The Rag Blog by the author. … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Sorkin, Abbie Hoffman, Bobby Seale, Judy Gumbo, Judy Gumbo Albert, Rag Bloggers, Tom Hayden, Trial of the Chicago 7, Yippies
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FILM | See the movie on the 8: Vote and protest
I wish the movie had been more historically accurate. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | October 22, 2020 I would feel a whole lot better about Aaron Sorkin’s movie if he had titled it The Trial of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Sorkin, Abbie Hoffman, Bobby Seale, Jonah Raskin, Rag Bloggers, Trial of the Chicago 7
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Jim Retherford, the ‘Man in a Red Devil Suit’
Jim has been a fearless New Left editor, a political performance artist, part of a guerrilla theater troupe, and has worked with some of the legendary figures of the ’60s. By Robert Sharlet | The Rag Blog | February 19, … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbie Hoffman, Austin Activists, Bloomington, Direct Action, Guerrilla Theater, Indiana University, James Retherford, Jeff Sharlet, Jerry Rubin, New Left Reunion, Political Performance Art, Progressive Journalists, Radical Activists, Rag Bloggers, Robert Sharlet, SDS, Sixties, The Rag, The Rag Blog, The Spectator, Thorne Dreyer, Underground Press, Yippies
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Jonah Raskin : Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman’s Ghost, and ‘Dirty Water’
Bill Sharpsteen’s Dirty Water:How a community took on City Hall and won By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / January 14, 2010 [Dirty Water: One Man’s Fight to Clean Up One of the World’s Most Polluted Bays, by Bill … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbie Hoffman, Books, Community Organizing, Environment, pollution, Social Activism, Tom Hayden
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Abbie and the Theater of the Flag
Abbie Hoffman, proudly attired.What Would Abbie Hoffman Have Thought Of The Flag Lapel Pin Debate?By Chris Weigant / July 4, 2008 I’d like to address, in as patriotic spirit as can be mustered, the wearing of United States flag lapel … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbie Hoffman, Agitprop, Bill of Rights, Civil Liberties, Criminal Justice, Direct Action, Flag Pin, New Left, Peace Movement, Sixties, Street Theater, The Left, The Movement, Yippies
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