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Rainbow gathering 
The Rainbow Family
 Some say we're the largest non-organization of non-members in the world. We have no leaders, and no organization. To be honest, the Rainbow Family means different things to different people. I think it's safe to say we're into intentional community building, non-violence, and alternative lifestyles. We also believe that Peace and Love are a great thing, and there isn't enough of that in this world. Many of our traditions are based on Native American traditions, and we have a strong orientation to take care of the the Earth. We gather in the National Forests yearly to pray for peace on this planet.

ovens The first gathering beginning July 1, 1972 was to have taken place on 3000 acres of land that they had hoped to purchase between Aspen & the Hopi & Navaho lands. The 3000 acres never materialized, and the first gathering took place partly on private land offered for temporary use, and partly on National Forest land.

 Sometime around the mid-1980s, folks who felt it was too far or too long to the annual gathering started coming together for smaller, regional gatherings. People all over the country developed local and regional bonds.

 In the past few years, the spiritual focus has been less obvious, due to the huge influx of people who may not realize the central purpose of the gatherings. These folks may come to party, to hang out, to find like-minded people, to gain support for their political causes, or whatever. There are no membership qualifications, no fees or dues, no leaders, and virtually no rules other than the one of "peaceful respect." Each year, individuals take personal responsibility and work together with others on whatever they are inspired to do, from office work, to scouting, to building the kitchens at the gatherings, to hauling in food and first-aid supplies, to peacekeeping, etc.

 Each person is asked to bring their own camping equipment (this all takes place in remote areas of the National Forest), their own cup, bowl, and spoon, and whatever they might want to share to help the gathering happen (tarps, shovels, musical instruments, bulk food, etc.). No one will be turned away because of lacks in these areas, however. The Magic Hat is passed at mealtimes and around camp. Donations are used to buy food in bulk for the kitchens and whatever else may be necessary for the communal well-being.


Where the Gathering will be in 2009

CUBA, N.M., June 28 (UPI) -- The Rainbow Family of Living Light, which gathers every summer to pray for peace, is assembling near a small town in New Mexico.

This year's location is outside Cuba, a town with a population of 1,200 -- "and that's including school children," Vandora Casados, the village clerk, told the Santa Fe New Mexican. By July 4, about 10 times that many people are expected to be occupying a temporary village nearby.

The grocery store and variety store in Cuba have posted "Welcome Rainbow" banners.parade

"We haven't caught anyone stealing. No one is panhandling," said Martin Herrera, manager of Mickey's Save-Way Grocery. "They've been respecting us real well."

The gatherings attract a diverse group from old hippies to lawyers. The group, without any central direction, constructs temporary facilities every year.

Zeke Goodwin, who also uses the name Uncle Sam, told the newspaper he is a stone mason from Oklahoma and a Vietnam veteran.

"I come here to heal," he said. 

Directions from Albuquerque NM : Take I-25 north to U.S. Highway 550. Go north on U.S. Highway 550 approximately 65 miles to State Highway 126 (Cuba, NM). From Cuba, NM take State Road 126 East for 13 + miles to FS Road 103 on left, go 2 miles to FS Road 69 on left then drive 9 miles to where FS Road 69 meets FS Road 70. Welcome Home!!*. A link to the map to Parque Venado is here Another map, with some site details, by Henry the Fiddler is here.


ACLU claims Forest Service harassed Rainbow Family
A Rainbow Gathering
 A report by the Wyoming chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union contends the U.S. Forest Service has engaged in systematic harassment of people who attend Rainbow Family gatherings on public lands.

 The ACLU opened an investigation after a clash between members of the Rainbow Family — an informal group of self-styled hippies and peace activists — and U.S. Forest Service law enforcement officers.

 About 7,000 members of the group attended its annual gathering , which was held on the Bridger-Teton National Forest near Big Sandy in western Wyoming, about 260 miles northwest of Cheyenne.

 Forest Service law enforcement officers fired "pepper balls" — similar to paint balls but containing a pepper substance — at Rainbow Family members during the July 3 incident.

 Scores of witnesses told the ALCU the officers lacked justification, but the Forest Service said officers fired only after a crowd threw sticks and rocks at officers and otherwise interfered in the arrest of a man on drug charges.

 officers took the smallest violation as an excuse to search participants' cars and campsites for drugs throughout the gathering. "This type of harassment and general overzealous enforcement appear to have been the pattern in the USFS relationship with the Rainbow Family," the ACLU report said. "The USFS has set up roadblocks, safety checkpoints, rolling gauntlets, and have searched and ticketed people on the narrowest of pretexts."

 Linda Burt, executive director of the ACLU in Wyoming, said "During the pepper ball incident, only one of the people the ACLU spoke with reported they had possibly seen one person throw a stick at law enforcement. The rest said they saw nothing thrown".

 Burt said the ACLU is not planning to pursue legal action, but she said she hopes Congress looks hard at the issue. The ACLU sent its report to members of Wyoming's congressional delegation.

 "Certainly people do have that right to peaceable assembly under the Constitution," Burt said. "It doesn't state anything in the Constitution that only the 'right kind' of people can have peaceable assembly, or only the people who dress like we like to dress can have peaceable assembly."

 John Twiss, national head of law enforcement for the Forest Service, said it cost the Forest Service $1 million to patrol the Rainbow gathering in WyomingRainbow Gathering this year. He said the group didn't share in the costs.

 A New Mexico resident — Garrick Beck, 58, of Santa Fe — was a participant at the Wyoming gathering. In a telephone interview , he said he's been attending gatherings since 1972 and has seen increasing harassment from Forest Service law enforcement in recent years. "I would say that the conclusion that there has been a consistent pattern of harassment is absolutely correct, and some of these consistent patterns have been extremely provocative," he said.

 He said confrontations would escalate more if it weren't for the peaceful nature of the Rainbow participants.

 Beck said he's been meeting with Forest Service officials in New Mexico to discuss possible sites for the group's annual gathering, which he said the group has decided to hold somewhere in the state this year (2009).

 For people looking for the videos of the pepper spraying incident that occured at Kiddie Village on July 3rd, 2008, go here .
This is the original footage from the gathering, some of which later was put on YouTube. A Press Release about the incident is here .  While the Forest Service has attempted to portray this as "a rainbow riot", you can clearly see in all the videos that at no time where the LEOs threatened, and they clearly shoot people in the back that were keeping things peaceful.


CHILDREN, DOGS AND CAMPERS ATTACKED ON EVE OF DAY OF PRAYER

USFS attempts to incite another riot

Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyo (July 10, 2008) – Federal Law Enforcement Officers (”LEOs”) of the United States Forest Service (USFS) committedShot by pepper ball multiple acts of violence against campers, their children and their dogs at the Annual Rainbow Gathering being held in the woods near Big Sandy, which unofficially ends today. The gatherers’ entire purpose in assembling is to silently pray for world peace on the Fourth of July. The harassment included multiple tasering incidents, writing hundreds of tickets, searching many gatherer’s vehicles, kicking sunbathers awake to search them for guns and poking into people’s tents. The harassment culminated in an attack of 50-60 rounds of pepper ball bullets being shot both indiscriminately and specifically at campers in the Gathering’s Kiddie Village (KV), a camp where children play gently and joyfully all day. This incident took place at dinner time while campers were praying before their meal. Read more ...      

 Tremendous expenses on the part of various public agencies
The attention recently given our festive Rainbow Gatherings has observed tremendous expenses on the part of various public agencies. This raises some important questions about the huge budgets the government is running up on the Rainbow's accounts. Is the Forest Service spending its way through the roof while it tries to blame the Rainbows for causing the expense?

The answer to where the money goes lies in the pockets of the so-called "Special Agents " of the US Forest Service. These agents are run from a Washington, D.C. bureaucracy which views itself as another national level police force and which sees the Rainbow Gatherings as a money bucket from which to guzzle public funds.

In 1988 after arguing in Federal Court that these same US Forest Service "Special Agents" had blocked the entrance of a drinking water truck into the gathering site, and delayed one of the family ambulances from taking a sick little girl to the hospital, the judge in the case ruled that "Indeed, there is substantial support for the defendants argument that the government has acted with hostility to the Rainbow Family." Read More ...


Beal pleads guilty to marijuana charge

Baby-Boomer-Rock-and-Roll is published at Mattoon, Illinois where this alleged crime is said to have taken place. Dana Beal is a permanent fixture on the counterculture scene and a veteran New York City-based activist perhaps best known for organizing the annual Global Marijuana Marches and smoke-ins for the past 30 years. Dana Beal is our country's foremost drug treatment advocate and proponent of IBOGAINE, which is the only known addiction antidote? Drug maintainance therapy is a thing of the past. If you think of addiction as the result of drug poisoning you can see ibogaine as an antidote that stops the poison and reverses the damage. He was on his way to fly down to Mexico with money to start a new Ibogaine clinic and support another one already in operation there when he was ensnared by the war on drugs and they seized these funds as "drug money?" Cash is not a crime but stealing cash is. The civil war on drugs is a corruping influence on law enforcement from the Federal level down to the city police. Can a cop's wishful thinking be grounds for the theft of all your money? They think so in Mattoon, IL.

CHARLESTON, ILLINOIS May 19, 2009 — A man who has reportedly been a longtime advocate for the legalization of marijuana pleaded guilty to a Coles County drug charge, which the prosecutor said he approved because federal authorities are seeking forfeiture of money involved.

Irvin Dale Beal, 62, of New York was allegedly trying to hide bags of money totaling about $150,000 when he was arrested in Mattoon onDana Beal

He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge and felony obstructing justice charges were dismissed. In accepting a plea agreement, Circuit Judge Teresa Righter ordered Beal to pay fines totalling $1,300.

National news reports have said Beal is also a veteran of the Youth International Party, whose members are commonly known as Yippies, a 1960s-era hippie political movement.

Assistant State’s Attorney Mick McAvoy said federal authorities seized the money and have a pending forfeiture case against Beal, and that case is why he was willing to let Beal plead guilty to the lesser charge. Beal’s trial had been scheduled to begin Tuesday before the agreement was reached, and Charleston attorney Ron Tulin represented him in the case.

A co-defendant, Jesse J. Balcom, 31, of Silver Spring, Md., pleaded guilty under an identical agreement in December.

The two men were arrested after police responded to a report of two women fighting at the Steak N’ Shake restaurant at 1400 Broadway Avenue East in Mattoon. According to evidence in the case, bystanders asked officers to question a man later identified as Beal because they saw him remove two bags from a van and hide them under a nearby car.

The two women involved in the fight were traveling with Beal and Balcom and they gave differing stories of their reason for being in Mattoon, according to case documents. Balcom said they were traveling from New York City to New Mexico, and one of the women said they were going to Kansas City, but Beal refused to make a statement.

Beal and Balcom were originally charged with the obstructing justice offenses because they allegedly hid the bags of money from police, interfering with the officers’ investigation. Each man could have received a prison term of one to three years had he been convicted of that offense.

Police also said at the time that there was some suspicion of money laundering, but the two men were never charged with that offense.

A national news report from the time of the arrest said A.J. Weberman, also involved with the Yippie movement, said Beal told friends he was traveling with the cash because he intended to finance an addiction clinic. Beal reportedly advocated the legal use of marijuana for medical purposes.
June 3 of last year.



THE DRUMMER FOR AEROSMITH REVEALS
THE TRUE AND GRITTY SIDE OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL FAME
IN A MOVING STORY OF HITTING ROCK BOTTOM AT THE TOP


Joey Kramer is the legendary drummer with the most successful band in American history—Aerosmith. In HIT HARD: A Story of Hitting Rock Bottom at the Top, Kramer reveals the true and gritty side of rock and roll fame in a moving and inspiring story.

In 1997, amidst Aerosmith’s sold out world tour and number-one album release, Joey revealed in an interview his ongoing struggles with depression. The response from fans and people battling those same internal demons was overwhelming. Joey—who has been the drummer in Aerosmith since it was founded in 1970 and the first member of the band to release his own book—now tells the complete story: the early days of the band, glamorous drug-addled events leading up to their eventual sobriety, battles within his family and among bandmates, and the explosive internal dynamics in Aerosmith that continue to unleash a fury of endless creativity.

This is not just another rock and roll memoir. In addition to the never-before told Aerosmith war stories that abound in the book, HIT HARD unpacks the history of a rock star who was both fragile and tough, who after years of insane wildness became willing to accept help and finally kick a serious alcohol and drug addiction, only to find that the real terrors and hard work were still ahead. It’s the story of an average kid from an average American suburb who went through physical and emotional trauma. It’s about years of depression and the nervous breakdown at the height of the band’s comeback success. Ultimately, is about how Joey recognized his confusion between love and abuse, awakening to the kind of self-acceptance and compassion that makes healthy relationships possible in the “real world.”

JOEY KRAMER has been rocking with Aerosmith since the band began in 1970. Kramer and his partners have sold over 150 million albums, and today their multigenerational, global audience is bigger than ever. In addition to the Grammys and the twenty-one multi-platinum albums, Aerosmith was inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame in 2001. The band has been the subject of several documentaries, including a film dedicated to Joey Kramer and his lasting influence called It’s About Time. Visit the author online at www.joeykramer.com. For Aerosmith news, visit www.aerosmith.com and www.aeroforceone.com
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“I love this book; this is an important book, because it’s not bullshit. Joey had the balls to see what’s underneath the hood, and to fix it. Being a rock star was easy compared to that.”
Nikki Sixx, author of The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star, from the foreword

Lets not forget Farrah Fawcett

Farrah FawcettLOS ANGELES (AFP) — Hundreds of mourners paid tribute to Farrah Fawcett as the "Charlie's Angels" star was laid to rest in a private ceremony in Los Angeles.

The 62-year-old actress and pin-up girl died last Thursday after a three-year battle with anal cancer, news that was quickly overshadowed by the death of King of Pop Michael Jackson later that day.

Fawcett's 24-year-old son Redmond, her child with longtime companion Ryan O'Neal, was granted compassionate leave from a prison cell to attend.

Both Ryan and Redmond O'Neal served as pallbearers for the service, held at Los Angeles Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angeles on Tuesday.

Fawcett emerged as a pop-culture icon in the 1970s and 1980s after her role in "Charlie's Angels" and appearance in a famous poster wearing a red swimsuit that would come to be her defining image.

During the 1970s, Fawcett was married to "Six Million Dollar Man" star Lee Majors, from whom she separated in 1979. In 1982 she began her long romance with actor O'Neal.

After splitting from O'Neal in the 1990s, Fawcett faded from public view, although she appeared in Robert Altman's 2000 comedy " Dr. T & The Women" in a cast that included Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Laura Dern and Kate Hudson.

In recent years Fawcett's health was the subject of intense scrutiny by a voracious tabloid media.

News of her cancer fight broke in October 2006, sparking an outpouring of support from fans and well-wishers.

In 2007 she declared that months of grueling chemotherapy had seen her beat the cancer despite "excruciating pain and uncertainty."

"It never occurred to me to stop fighting -- not ever," she said.

However, in April this year it emerged that the cancer had returned and the actress was gravely ill.

RIP FARRAH

Lynyrd Skynyrd Tragedies Continue
Donald "Ean" EvansBilly Powell

 In January 2009 Lynyrd Skynyrd was saddened by the death of keyboardist Billy Powell. Now they have suffered another tragedy this week. Bassist Donald "Ean" Evans died on Wednesday May 6th at his Columbus, Mississippi, home at the age of 48 after a battle with cancer, according to The Associated Press.

"It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of longtime Lynyrd Skynyrd bassist Ean Evans," the band announced on their Web site on Wednesday. "Ean put up a valiant battle with an aggressive form of cancer and he will be sorely missed by family, friends and fans."

Evans joined the legendary Southern rock band in 2001, following the death of longtime bassist Leon Wilkeson. In the 1980s, Evans played with another Southern rock powerhouse, the Outlaws, and later with that band's original guitarist, the late Hughie Thomasson, who also had a stint in Skynyrd (1996-2005).

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members, best known for such landmark tunes as "Free Bird" and "Sweet Home Alabama," have had a history of tragic deaths. In 1977, the band's chartered plane crashed in a swamp near McComb, Mississippi, killing six, including lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and backing vocalist Cassie Gaines. One of the group's founders, guitarist Allen Collins, was paralyzed in a 1986 DUI accident that killed his girlfriend. He died in 1990 from pneumonia.



Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett:
How They Changed Television

The not-unexpected passing of Farrah Fawcett and the shocking sudden death of Michael Jackson on Thursday stir all kinds of emotional responses - among them wistful nostalgia for those decades in which they both became pop-culture icons. Those were the days -- when talented people worked for years to become "overnight" sensations without the instant celebrity options of the digital era. I think it's fair to say that many of the young personalities who dominate movies, music and television today would never have enjoyed such success without benefit of the Internet. Fawcett and Jackson rose to the top and achieved legendary success the old-fashioned way. They earned it one performance at a time. Read More ...


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3,500 hours of rescued newsreel, Biggest time capsule ever as 1960s and 1970s return to life

A 'treasure trove' of news footage from the Sixties and Seventies is to go online after being rescued from a bunker once used as Eisenhower's London war HQ.

The film has been stored for almost 40 years in the deep underground bunker from which General Eisenhower - later U.S. President - directed the D-Day landings.

After the war until 1956 the tunnels became an army transit camp but later they were used for storing the vast archive of 20,000 film cans.

beatlesAmong the highlights is amazing footage of : The Beatles striding on-stage, hippy festivals and bizarre fashion shoots all underline the huge upheavals in youth and popular culture during the era.

The 'time capsule' also includes electrifying film from the Vietnam War and from protests against the conflict - with images of 'Hanoi' Jane Fonda clapping her hands delightedly among North Vietnamese troops during her notorious 1972 visit.
 
Highlights are being screened tonight for film professionals at Bafta headquarters in Piccadilly, central London, as restorers from the Associated Press (AP) get to work on the 3,500 hours of international news.
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The range and quality of what we're finding in this lost archive is breathtaking and it's incredibly exciting to be unearthing new history in this way,' said AP Archive chief Alwyn Lindsey.

The footage belonged to United Press International Television News (UPITN), a prolific news gatherer which had film crews all over the world, including both sides of the Iron Curtain and hotspots such as Vietnam and Cambodia.

The agency went through multiple changes of ownership before being renamed World Television News and, in 1998, being bought by AP.

These upheavals had delayed the potentially unprofitable restoration project until now, Mr Lindsey said.

They are also being transferred onto high-definition videotape for use by professional producers, hugely increasing their range of choices for screening images of the era.

Archival researchers in London have tracked down the catalogues for the film rolls, which had been scattered around the world over the years since the footage was shot.

However, the films are now being cleaned up, restored and digitised in Paris so they can be viewed online via its website www.aparchive.com.

The restoration project is expected to take a further 18 months.



Denmark : Hippies await their fate as state plans to 'normalise' commune
Main gate at enterance to Christiania
Published Date: 26 May 2009
By JANE BRADLEY IN DENMARK
IT WAS a social experiment with an alternative way of life, which has existed in the heart of Denmark's capital for almost 40 years.

Now the future of hippie commune Christiania is under threat, as the government's ambition to "normalise" it moves closer to fruition.

Previous official attempts to get rid of the commune have always been abandoned, but now the right-wing gover

nment believes it should take control of the 85-acre site.

Christiania's residents have made legal objections to the plan and are now awaiting the result of the court case to find out if they will be allowed to continue their way of life or be forced out into the rest of society.

The government believes an agreement for Christiania's residents to live on the land ended in 2004.

Housed in a disused military barracks in Copenhagen's up-market Christianshavn suburb are around 1,000 "Christianites", many of whom have lived in the commune since its inception in 1971.

Officials want to build new flats on the site, which is currently a mix of 18th-century naval barracks and various random structures erected by Christianites over the years.

Say NO to Hard Drugs in ChristianiaChristiania has its own moral code, own rules and even its own currency, the lon. A large wooden sign at the main entrance tells those exiting the community: "You are now entering the EU."

Police crackdowns on its main drag, "Pusher Street", have failed to stop open hash dealing – although hard drugs are severely frowned upon by the community and anyone found indulging is expelled.

A German-born carpenter by the name of Thomas, who has lived in the community for more than 20 years and whose former partner and 13-year-old son both grew up in Christiania, explained the attractions of living there.

He said: "We call it a community for losers. People fit in here who do not fit in mainstream society. If we lose our case with the government and we are made to live in a normal community, it will be very difficult for some people."

He added: "We don't bother people, so I don't know why they won't let us keep on doing what we are doing."

Christiania boasts its own concert hall – where singers such as Bob Dylan have played in the past – as well as a children's theatre, jazz club and cinema. Residents also run a number of restaurants – including a vegetarian café and a restaurant that achieved four-star status in local newspaper reviews.

Although residents pay taxes, they organise their own pre-school education and maintenance of infrastructure. They have a huge recycling facility, where they aim to recycle 90 per cent of all rubbish on the site.

Jens, who works at Christiania's opera theatre, added: "People have lived here so long, it is a way of life. I don't know what will happen if things change."

A spokesman for the Danish Government Palaces and Properties Agency said: "The ideal future would be that the objective of the Danish Christiania Act is met and the area legitimised. This does not mean, however, that the Christiania area should be standardised with other urban areas.a street in Christiania

"The Danish government's objective for the development of Christiania is that the area shall continue to be a green, traffic-free area in Copenhagen; that an alternative lifestyle can still be lived but one that complies with the general rules of Danish law without a special act, without the hash trade, with rental payments and open housing allocation, with maintenance of preservation-worthy buildings and with maintenance and protection of the fortification as an open and recreational area for Christianites, Copenhageners and the public in general."

Ditle Folmer, who works in a café just outside the Christiania boundary, said the general feeling towards the community in Christianshavn was positive.

She said: "I don't think anybody in this area minds. There are those who say 'why should they get to live however they want and we have to obey the rules?', but generally, people are quite happy with them living there and getting on with doing things their way."

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Lennon's bloody clothes displayed
Lennon was murdered in New York on 8 December 1980
A new John Lennon exhibition, due to open in New York later, will feature a paper bag containing the bloody clothes from the night he was shot dead.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex display also features the piano from his apartment and handwritten lyrics.

His widow Yoko Ono, who has created the display, said the clothes were "hard to include" and she feared she "might be criticised as well" for including them.

Lennon was murdered outside the Dakota apartment building on 8 December 1980.

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Created by Yoko Ono, this extraordinary exhibit offers a rare opportunity to experience never-before-seen artifacts, films, & photos that uniquely commemorate Lennon's life in New York City.

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35 Years Ago, July 19 - 21 1974
Ozark Mountain Music Festival
Ozark Music Festival
Wishing to escape the hassles of the decade, in July 1974, over 150,000 people flooded into rural Sedalia, Missouri, for the three-day Ozark Music Festival.
Residents living near the Missouri State Fairgrounds, where the festival was held, woke on July 19, 1974, with attendees sleeping in their yards and a long line of bumper-to -bumper traffic clogging the roads into town. At the time, no one knew the Ozark Music Festival would become one of the largest, least remembered music festivals ever held.

Thirty-five years later, an exhibit entitled “Seventies Flashback: A Look Back at the July 1974 Ozark Music Festival,” currently on display at the historic
Katy Depot in Sedalia, takes a look back
at the seventies and the music festival.

The exhibit's website has many letters from fans, who where at the festival, visit the website here www.ozarkmusicfestivalexhibit.com/

See BBR&R's own OMF page ( it has some photo's HERE


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Wolfman Jack
Acting as MC at the Ozark Music Festival, was one of the most unique of "Rock n' Roll" personalities. He was born in Brooklyn on January 21, 1938 as Robert “Bob” Smith. The name did not suit his career as a rock ‘n’ roll disc jockey so he changed it to Wolfman Jack.... MORE HERE brooklyneagle.com

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Due to public interest in the Ozark Music Festival exhibit, the decision has been made to add another component to the exhibit currently on display at the Katy Depot at 600 East Third Street.   On Saturday, July 18, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. the Katy Depot will be offering a special viewing of rare video footage from the Ozark Music Festival weekend thirty-five years ago.  Visitors are invited to dress in 70s attire or bring in photos of yourself from the 70s as we travel back in time

Ozark Mountain Daredevil bassist, Michael ‘Supe’ Granda will be on hand to sign copies of his book, “It Shined – The Saga of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils.”  The book is an expose of the life and times of the band in and out of the spotlight, on and off of the stage, and from top of the charts to the bottom of the barrel.  Not only will you find humorous anecdotes about the music (i.e. Jackie Blue’s sex change and Chicken Train’s acquisition of its chicken squawking solo), you will learn about the rigors of the road both here and abroad.  Follow the path of the band from its beginnings onstage at the New Bijou Theater in 1971 to one of their last gigs on the stage of the Shrine Mosque in 2004.  In between those dates you’ll find a cornucopia of stories - some good, some bad, some ugly, all entertaining.  Though the band went through many personnel changes, the only member to remain a constant was Supe.  While the others came and went, Supe stood center stage, leading the mayhem with musicianship and humor, both of which can be found in these pages.  Ozark Mountain Daredevil memorabilia will be available for purchase as well..


Nowadays, Woodstock is just a happening at Target
by Mark Patinkin
Woodstock 1969 symbol

I saw that Target is coming out with some “Summer of Love” items based on Woodstock. The campaign is keyed off the 40th anniversary of the event. Specifically, the stores will use the classic image of a white dove perched on a guitar neck. Many people, no doubt, will think this is a nice thing for Target to do.

I’m appalled.

Not with Target. If they feel they can market products by licensing an appealing logo, that’s their job.

What upsets me is that Woodstock is now considered pleasant nostalgia.

For those of you raised on Lil Wayne instead of Crosby, Stills and Nash, Woodstock was more than just the original rock mega-festival. It was a symbol to some of how the counter-culture was undermining society.

Hundreds of thousands of mostly unkempt hippies gathered at an upstate New York farm for a three days to hear rock bands sing rebellious ballads. It was viewed by the establishment with alarm. Mainstream America continued to regard it that way for years, and that was fine with me.

Now Target, whose annual sales were over $60 billion last year, has come to embrace Woodstock as a marketing tool. What makes this disturbing is that Target appeals to the very middle class demographic that was most appalled by Woodstock in 1969. This seems almost as unexpected as Iran opening souvenir shops with “USA” T-shirts.

Comrades, what happened to the revolution?

I didn’t go to Woodstock, but had a friend who went there in a beat-up VW bus, which is a fine cliche. More to the point, if you listened to Hendrix and Joplin, went to protest marches and had long hair, you felt part of the Woodstock culture.

I dressed in ways my parents disapproved of, and was glad they did. There was a pride in being looked upon askance as you walked down sidewalks in sandals, torn bell-bottoms and tie-dyed shirts. It was fun to alarm society.

Today, I have short hair, which some friends say is gray. I wear sports jackets to work. I worry about my mortgage, and my own children’s choices. But somewhere deep, I like the idea of still being seen as culturally disreputable. This will be harder to do now that Target thinks my unruly past is a charming basis for advertising towels.

In one sense, the music of Woodstock is tame compared to today’s standards. The festival included songs like White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane and Pinball Wizard by The Who. More recently, hit songs have included Big Booty Hos, and Birthday Sex.

Still, in its time, Woodstock was seen with distress. Younger folks, of course, saw it as proof that hippies weren’t a threat — that hundreds of thousands could have a peaceful weekend despite mud, chaos and rock music.

But the country’s Silent Majority felt those same folks were the Huns –– the end of society as we knew it.

Target’s campaign reminds me of the time a few years ago when I saw a Fidelity commercial featuring the song, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, by Iron Butterfly. I was stunned. That song was a drug anthem. In the late 1960s, it’s what people often listened to while smoking grass. Now it was being used to pitch investment products, and for all I know, it still is. Don’t ask me how one of the edgiest songs of that era became a marketing tool for 401k’s.

Or how Woodstock ended up as a way to sell towels.

To me, it’s the rough equivalent of Lil Wayne and 50 Cent, both gangsta-rappers, being hired as spokesmen for Bank of America.

Frankly, that will probably happen in 20 years, and I guarantee that their fans today will be let down at seeing their anthems turned into mainstream marketing vehicles.

Just as I’m let down.

I felt a lot better about myself when society saw me as a barbarian. I never expected to become the establishment.

But in one way, I suppose it comes at a good time.

I can use some new towels.
Reprinted with permission from Mark Patinkin & projo.com
40 Years Ago
August 15 - 18 1969

1969 Woodstock
Woodstock Music and Arts Fair
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair in 1969 drew more than 450,000 people to a pasture in Sullivan County. For four days, the site became a countercultural mini-nation in which minds were open, drugs were all but legal and love was "free". The music began Friday afternoon at 5:07pm August 15 and continued until mid-morning Monday August 18. The festival closed the New York State Thruway and created one of the nation's worst traffic jams. It also inspired a slew of local and state laws to ensure that nothing like it would ever happen again.

Woodstock.com
Woodstock Web site unveiled
Festival's co-creator teams with Sony

Woodstock festival co-creator Michael Lang and Sony Music Entertainment on Monday launched a new Web site, Woodstock.com.

The site features comprehensive concert listings, information on the three Woodstock festivals (1969, 1994 and 1999) and green-living news and information. Lang said it took about three months to create the site.

"We had the idea for quite a while, and we were looking for a partner to do it with. And a friend of mine, Peter Berkowitz, suggested Sony, and we've been talking with them for a year and a half now," Lang said. "We finally decided let's go do it."

Shane Daley, a Web developer for Decorative Product Source, Inc. — a leading home-decor retailer based in Goshen — said the site looks impressive.

"Solid layout and design, with nice mix of media. I think it will be a useful resource for anyone interested in the Woodstock music scene," Daley said. "There's plenty of content. The embedded videos in the artist's pages work well."

Lang says the Web site's success is partially due to the amount of manpower Sony is contributing.

"A lot of bodies, physical time and what Sony Legacy has access to. Things like music and photography and things that they have in their archives," Lang said. "It's mostly the personnel and the great people that they have."

Lang added that feedback has been positive.

"Everyone seems to think it's terrific, and that's gratifying," he said.

By Sandy Tomcho
Times Herald-Record


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Festival Facts

Barbara Hahn wasn’t the only one at Woodstock who didn’t recognize Abbie Hoffman. When the publicity-hungry Yippie jumped on stage to rap about politics during the Who’s set, Pete Townsend didn’t recognize the wild-looking guy with the American flag shorts. So he whacked Hoffman on the head with his guitar.

Michael Lang may have smoked a joint or two before Woodstock, but during the festival, the promoter stayed stone-cold sober. He stayed away from anything going around. Many drinks – and even watermelon – were laced with LSD. “I didn’t drink anything that didn’t come from a bottle I didn’t open myself,” he said.

The Beatles were reportedly invited to play at Woodstock. They obviously did not. Why? Surely this would have been a great performance. But at this point in time, mid-to-late 1969, The Beatles were collapsing. They had spent most of the summer out of the collaboration that they all were accustomed to. Not to mention that they had not played a real live show together since 1966. So needless to say, The Beatles turned down their offer. John Lennon thought that his side project, the Plastic Ono Band, would be a suitable replacement. The Woodstock organizers declined.

Led Zeppelin were also reportedly offered an invitation. Why did they not play? Well, their manager, Peter Grant, turned it down for them. He didn't just want them to be "another band" performing at the festival.  Zeppelin was a fairly new band on the scene, forming in 1968. Although they were fairly inexperienced, it would have added a whole new dimension to an already amazing concert.

The Doors were originally scheduled to perform at the festival. So why didn't they perform? They canceled. There have been many rumors as to why they canceled. One of the rumors is that Jim Morrison was having legal altercations at the time due to his arrest for indecent exposure. This was not why they canceled, however. They stated that they disliked outdoor venues. This may connect with another rumor that Morrison was afraid that someone would take a shot at him. This has not been confirmed as one of the reasons they did not play Woodstock.

Bob Dylan planned on making the show. However, his son had medical problems, and this caused him to cancel his suspected performance.

Jethro Tull refused to perform. They said that Woodstock wasn't a big deal, and they likely thought it would have been a waste of time.

The Jeff Beck Group was invited, and they intended on performing. That is until they disbanded one week before the event. Ouch, bad timing.

Iron Butterfly were fully intending on showing up and performing. Unfortunately, they were stuck at an airport and they never arrived in time to play.

Joni Mitchell wanted to play, but her agent insisted that she did not. Instead, he wanted her to play on The Dick Cavett Show. Ironically, the two other bands that performed on the show with her did play at Woodstock.Joni Mitchell's agent said that there would only be 500 people.

this information was obtained from Great 60's Music blog



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Although attempts have been made over the years to recreate the festival, the original event has proven to be unique and legendary. Regarded as one of the greatest moments in popular music history and 'Rolling Stone's 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll'. It defined a generation, and a musical era. Performers included the Who, the Grateful Dead, Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Santana and CCR. Refused invitations included the Doors, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, and the promoters turned down John Lennon and his Plastic Ono Band, when their request for The Beatles was not available. Super-soft fine jersey fabric is lightweight 100% cotton. Great shirt if you were there, or wish you were, or think you were but can't remember, and anyone who wants to spread the message of peace and love.
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Woodstock nurse: From pets to peace in a blink
Woodstock nurse
Barbara and George Hahn of Jeffersonville at the original Woodstock site in Bethel. Barbara flew into the site in August 1969 to care for many of the hundreds of thousands of concertgoers.
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She gets the call at the Jeffersonville Ambulance Corps. Medical personnel are needed at the Woodstock festival. Fast. So Barbara Hahn, a registered nurse for humans who works in her husband’s veterinarian office, grabs a supply of human antibiotics and drives to Grossinger’s resort in Liberty, where she would be flown by helicopter to Bethel. The woman who had grown up in Jeffersonville and had mostly seen hippies on TV boards a doorless copter with a doctor, her nurse cousin and Janis Joplin’s drummer.
When she lands among the “tremendous sea of people,” she’s greeted by a curly-haired guy in a fringe jacket and tie-dyed shirt.
“Hello,” he says. “I’m Abbie Hoffman.”
Barbara Hahn has no clue he’s a counterculture star, a Yippie who’d led demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic National Convention and written “Steal This Book.”
“I didn’t know who he was until I read the paper the next day,” says Hahn today in her Jeffersonville home. “I didn’t really follow the counterculture.”
“Although we did have a dog or two in the office who’d swallowed some stashes (of marijuana),” adds her husband, George.
This was Barbara Hahn’s backstage introduction to Woodstock (though the couple had stopped by the festival Friday night to see Joan Baez, who appeared after they left). She went from treating dogs, cats and cows to bringing hippies down from bad trips. She spoke about her experiences in what came to be called “the trips tent” for the Times Herald-Record’s series leading up to the 40-year anniversary of the most famous rock concert.
How did you get there?
Barbara: It was a very frightening experience taking off in a helicopter with no doors. I was seated next to Janis Joplin’s drummer. “Where’s Janis?” someone asked. “Who the hell knows,” says the drummer. But I saw her backstage all the time. She was totally amazed by it all.
What’s your top memory?
Barbara: Besides Abbie Hoffman, I guess it was when we left the tent and got to the corner of West Shore and Hurd Road (near the monument). It was like Times Square, there were so many people. And the cavalry from Dutchess County was there. It was just so totally different than anything I would have expected.
What did Woodstock mean to you?
Barbara: Being a mother of young children (ages 11 and 9), the use of drugs all the time by so many kids ... and they just seemed to have no concern. Everybody who came into the tent had some kind of drug problem, mainly bad trips. I’d never seen anything like it, but it didn’t take long to learn to handle it. You had to convince people to move their tongues to get them some sanity.
Any lessons from Woodstock?
Barbara: I had totally different notions about the hippies. Most were kids having a good time.
George: They were just human beings, but the hardcore ones were just living off society.
Barbara: Max’s (Yasgur) vision was that the kids who came were going to appreciate the land and come back and settle here and make it home. I guess that never really happened.
Did it change you?
Barbara: It certainly opened my eyes.
George: To my sister and brother-in-law in North Carolina, the hippies were an isolated thing. To us they were a movement.
Barbara: They were unaware it was a culture change. When you saw it, you believed it.

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They just might be the most authentic live interpreters of the music of the Beatles on the planet, other than Paul McCartney when he takes his own band on the road.

 But forget every notion you may have ever had about tribute bands. The Fab Faux don't weary wigs, they don't get decked out in phony Sgt. Pepper's uniforms and they don't talk between songs with bogus British accents.

 Boasting the high visibility of TV star/musicians Will Lee from The Late Show with David Letterman and Jimmy Vivino from Late Night with Conan O'Brien; five strong lead vocalists (including Rich Pagano, Frank Agnello, Jack Petruzzelli) and a commitment to the accurate reproduction of The Beatles' repertoire; this is the band to see if you want to know what it might have been like if The Beatles toured behind their later albums (with a healthy portion of the early guitar-based stuff that most tribute bands play.) Imagine hearing complex material like "Strawberry Fields Forever", "I Am the Walrus", and "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite", performed in complete part-perfect renditions; or such harmony-driven songs as "Because", "Nowhere Man", and "Paperback Writer", reproduced not only note-for-note, but with extra vocalists available to achieve a double-tracked effect!

 Lee, whose musical resume reads like a who's who of rock 'n' roll history, spoke recently from his home in New York about the group's background and its goals. He's particularly the right guy for his role in the Faux, in part because he has played with three Beatles (McCartney, Ringo Starr and the late George Harrison) and even played on a track with the late John Lennon as well, (He recorded "Cookin' (In The Kitchen of Love)" with Starr on the latter's "Rotogravure" album in 1976. Lennon wrote the song and played piano on it but Lee was not in the studio with him at the same time, "so technically we're on the same track but I never actually had the chance to play with John," he said).

  He was talking to McCartney about the Fab Faux before the star-studded 9/11 benefit "Concert for New York" in 2001.

"At the rehearsal I said 'I know you hate Beatle bands, but I have to tell you that I have a band that honors the music that you, John, George and Ringo gave us all...We're trying to bring the records to the stage, that's our goal. We focus more on the latter, heretofore impossible-to-do-live material note-for-note.' And he instantly asked me, 'Do you do "Tomorrow Never Knows?"' And I said, 'Of course, it's one of the first ones we assembled.' (laughs) I was so happy to say that."

  Lee first got the band together years back when he was playing in a group with drummer-singer Rich Pagano. He then approached Vivino about the idea.

"I knew we had to get five players," Lee said. "So that we could get the doubled harmonies and the extra percussion and keyboard parts that made the Beatles' records so great. I had seen a lot of these four-piece piece bands that Paul McCartney has a disdain for and I had no interest in that at all. I had no interest in pretending to be anybody else, but I loved the music so much and was looking for like-minded hearts."

Together with Pagano and Vivino he found those qualities in guitarist-vocalist Frank Agnello and singer-keyboardist-guitarist Jack Petruzzelli. Frequently - like during its extraordinary 10th anniversary show before a full house at Radio City Music Hall last year - the group is augmented by the Hogshead Horns and Creme Tangerine Strings.
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The state would take over growing and distributing marijuana to patients in the medical-marijuana program under a bill introduced Wednesday. Sponsored by Rep. Ron Maurer, a Republican from Grants Pass, the bill imposes a $98-per-ounce tax, which would cover the state's cost of operating and securing the production center. "I'm not a pot guy, but the water's under the bridge. That's not the issue," Maurer told The Oregonian newspaper. "Let's not even discuss that. Let's discuss is the program working? The answer is unequivocally no, that the program is not working." Democrat Rep. Chris Harker, told the Statesman Journal newspaper that the measure "takes medical marijuana off the streets and into a safer and more secure environment."
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In the 70's we heard such great bands as Led Zeppelin and AC/DC. Some 30 odd years later Baby Boomers (and Gen-X'ers) can hear classic rock sound again. THE ANSWER have barely changed a thing from the 70's hard rock formula.

 AC/DC, on their current "Black Ice" tour, had THE ANSWER as their opening act on the North American tour, as well as the first leg of the European part of the tour.

 From Downpatrick ,Northern Ireland.  The Answer got together in spring 2000, signed a contract with the legendary Australian rockThe Answer label, Albert Productions, in 2005 and brought out their debut album, Rise, in 2006. “It took us three or four years to really get noticed,” Paul Mahon explains, “but then it all started to happen at once.” The band have performed with icons such as the Rolling Stones, The Who and Aerosmith, playing celebrated headlining tours in England, Japan and Australia. Their debut, Rise, was greeted enthusiastically by fans and media alike (the British music bible Kerrang! commented: “The Answer are superstars already” and has sold more than 100,000 copies to date.

 The The four hard blues boys are Cormac Neeson - Vocals, Paul Mahon - Guitar, Michael Waters - Bass, and James Heatley - Drums.
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1970 underground newspaper
The Madison BUGLE-AMERICAN  was an underground/alternative "hybrid" newspaper founded in 1970 by four young UWM journalism grads (Dave Schreiner, Denis Kitchen, Mike & Judy Jacobi) and, briefly, Mike Hughes. The paper was seriously undercapitalized, had no business plan, fluctuated between being free and charging, between tabloid, folded tabloid and a newsprint magazine formats, and even the name (The Madison-Milwaukee Bugle-American eventually became just The Bugle). Nonetheless it lasted seven years (1970-1977) and outlasted all competition (primarily Kaleidoscope) by providing aggressive local political and cultural coverage, attracting a strong line-up of contributors and loyal readers, hawkers and retailers.

1970

Hippie artifacts discovered in the remains of ex-HIPPIE commune and former home of the Grateful Dead
In 1843 Camilo Ynitia built a small adobe home. In 1852, Ynitia sold most of his land for $5,000 to James Black, the county assessor and land speculator. Black, in turn, gave the land in 1863 as a wedding present to his daughter Mary, who married an early San Francisco dentist, Galen Burdell.

  The land remained in the Burdell family for 80 years,with a 26-room mansion built in 1911 . Oddly enough, the mansion was built around the core of Ynitia's adobe. The Burdell ranch featured pillars and brickwork, gazebos, exotic plants and trees, a lily pond, and an immense stone fountain, fed by water running down from the 1500-foot Mt. Burdell.

  In 1943 Court Harrington bought the Burdell ranch for use as a beef cattle ranch, but after five years Harrington sold out to the University of San Francisco in 1948, which initially used the land as a Jesuit retreat. This plan was not successful, and throughout the 1960s USF tried to sell or lease the property, The year 1964 saw the construction of a swimming pool for the short-lived Olompali Swim Club.
listening to the Dead performThen, in 1966, the estate was rented by the Grateful Dead, who in turn entertained Janis Joplin and Grace Slick at Olompali, and featured the land on one of their album covers. Grateful Dead having picture taken for album cover at Olompal
Grateful Dead having picture taken for album cover at Olompal
  Finally, in 1967, Donald Crawford McCoy leased the property. McCoy was the developer of the first modern houseboat marina. McCoy "dropped out" after his 1966 divorce and founded a hippie commune at Olompali, named "the Chosen Family," with dozens of participants at one time or another. The children attended a "Not School" run by a pot-smoking nun. Two of the students, were the sons of Richard (Sgt. Sunshine) Bergess, a San Francisco police sergeant convicted of smoking pot on the Hall of Justice steps. The mansion earned the nickname, "the White House of hippiedom."

 The commune supplied bread baked in large cans and shaped like mushrooms to residents of Haight-Ashbury.

  McCoy, with his long, dark beard and flowing locks, was labeled the "hippie benefactor," the "bearded patriarch" and the "rich guru."

  There were two renowned drug busts in 1969. In one of them, narcotics agents demanded to know who owned all the pot they found. McCoy responded famously, "It belongs to God. I just smoke it."

  Then things took a turn for the worse. Two children drowned when they fell into the swimming pool. The driver of a big-rig truck was killed in a grisly accident after one of the rancho's 40 horses escaped and ran onto Highway 101.

 the remainsThe coup de grâce came when the historic two-story mansion burned down on Feb. 2, 1969, the victim, apparently, of an electrical problem. But some good came out of it. The fire exposed an adobe structure. It was the home of Camillo Ynitia.

  The Chosen Family is long gone, but the remains of their lives sat until 1997 on the floor of the gutted mansion. The debris was placed in sealed barrels after asbestos was discovered. Crews in hazmat suits began cleaning the debris the 2nd week of January 2009 so that archaeologists could sort through it.

  The artifacts from the Age of Aquarius were laid out on a plastic sheet in an old barn in Marin County's Olompali State Historic Park. Senior State Archaeologist E. Breck Parkman and representatives of the California Department of Parks and Recreation began sorting through the artifacts left 40 years ago by the infamous hippie commune .

  There, stiff and rumpled from being in storage so long, was a leather jacket with a rainbow colored flower motif, some old boots, dozens of melted records, burned-out speakers, charred beads, monopoly pieces, soot-covered reel-to-reel tapes (the Grateful Dead's ?), pieces of a porcelain toilet. No bongs have been found, but one thing is certainly clear from the Chosen Family artifacts, they liked beer. And lots of beer. Budweiser, Coors, Olympia and Busch beer cans have been found.

  The idea of going through the stuff, said Victor Bjelajac, the park maintenance supervisor who is assisting Parkman, is not only to find items from the 1960s but also to search for artifacts from the pioneers. He said pearl doorknobs and other decorative artifacts found amid the debris probably date back a century or more.

  Parkman said most of the sorting should be completed by the 40th anniversary of the Burdell Mansion fire. Once he is done with the hippies, he said, he would like to get permission to excavate the ruins of the adobe, under which lie the remains of Coast Miwok settlements dating back 8,000 years.
          sources: The San Francisco Chronicle and bobandelsa.com

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What it is

The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is a four-day, multi-stage camping festival held on a beautiful 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee every June. Bonnaroo brings together some of the best performers in rock and roll, along with dozens of artists in complementary styles such as jazz, Americana, hip-hop, electronica, and just about any contemporary music you can think of. In addition to dozens of epic performances, the festival's 100-acre entertainment village buzzes around the clock with attractions and activities including a classic arcade, on-site cinema, silent disco, comedy club, theater performers, a beer festival, and a music technology village. For its peaceful vibe, near-flawless logistics, and unrivaled entertainment options, Rolling Stone magazine named this revolutionary entertainment experience one of the 50 moments that changed the history of rock and roll.
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When the Rolling Stones toured America in 1965, their tour manager, Bob Bonis, took
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seen before. This shot of Brian Jones and Keith Richards was taken the day the Stones wrote "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" at a hotel in Clearwater, Florida. Bonis, who died in 1991, traveled with both the Beatles and the Stones between 1964 and 1966. "These are intimate candids of two of the most important bands at critical moments in their history," says Larry Marion, director of Not Fade Away Gallery in New York, where Bonis' images are on display. "As you look through them, you see the birth of rock."




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Activist and artist Gerald Holtom came up with the design on February 21, 1958 Gerald Holtom, a conscientious objector who had worked on a farm in Norfolk during the Second World War, explained that the symbol incorporated the semaphore letters N(uclear) and D(isarmament). He later wrote to Hugh Brock, editor of Peace News, explaining the genesis of his idea in more personal depth:
I was in despair. Deep despair. I drew myself: the representative of an individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of Goya’s peasant before the firing squad. I formalised the drawing into a line and put a circle round it.
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Abbie Hoffman
ABBIE HOFFMAN
November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989
American political activist and founder of the Youth International Party (Yippies), who was known for his successful media events.

Hoffman, who received psychology degrees from both Brandeis University (1959) and the University of California at Berkeley (1960), was active in the American civil-rights movement before turning his energies to organizing the Yippies (1968), who were dedicated to protesting the Vietnam War and the American economic and political system. He gained widespread media attention for his exploits, most notably for his courtroom antics as a defendant in the so-called Chicago Seven trial (1969), in which Hoffman was convicted of crossing state lines with intent to riot at the Democratic Party’s national convention in Chicago in 1968; the conviction was later overturned.

After he was arrested on charges of selling cocaine (1973), Hoffman went underground, underwent plastic surgery, assumed the alias Barry Freed, and worked as an environmental activist in New York state. He resurfaced in 1980 and served a year in prison before resuming his environmental efforts. He was the author of such books as Revolution for the Hell of It (1968), Steal This Book (1971), and an autobiography, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture (1980).
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Remembering Abbie Hoffman by Marc Catone

Abbie Hoffman died 20 years ago on April 12th.  I miss him.  He was
never dull.  He was always passionate.  He possessed a bubbly
personality that lent itself to theatrics and garnered him the
attention of the media.  Although, he wasn't always portrayed
favorably by TV and the press, he knew how to command their attention
before they succumbed to corporate ownership.

There was a down-to-earth quality about Abbie...although he was well
educated, he identified with the downtrodden, beginning with his
activism in the civil rights movement of the early 1960s.  Using that
background, he became one of the most influential figures from that
middle 1960s marriage of hippie counterculture and the anti-Vietnam
War movement.

I first became aware of Abbie when he, and thousands of others,
marched on the Pentagon in the Fall of 1967.  On a visit to Manhattan
from my home in Connecticut, I bought my first copy of the Village
Voice, and read an account of that march.  The name "Abbie Hoffman"
kept popping out at me from the text.  A year later, quite by accident
(as I twirled the dial trying to find an FM Rock station), I
discovered radio station WBAI-FM, and was introduced to the world of
listener-sponsored Pacifica radio.  Abbie was a frequent guest on
WBAI, during live broadcasts from the Vietnam Moratorium protests in
Washington D.C., and during his own trial as part of the Chicago
Seven.  His thoughts...his manner of speaking...appealed to my budding
radicalism.

As time went on, I read his books, particularly "Woodstock Nation" and
"Steal This Book", as soon as they were released.  Then Abbie went on
the lam, jumping bail on charges of selling cocaine. He always claimed
he was entrapped, and that a suitcase of cocaine had been planted in
his apartment for the cops to find.  Abbie went underground for most
of the 1970s, emerging under an alias, Barry Freed, who worked with
the St. Lawrence River community on environmental issues concerning
that river.  He served a year in jail for his flight from trial.

Then came the 80s.  Unlike several of his peers from his Yippie days,
Abbie continued his activism, most notably helping college students
organize against CIA recruitment on their campuses.  In the late
1980s, Abbie became quite a visible figure on the lecture circuit,
detailing the illegal activities of the CIA, particularly in the wake
of the Iran/Contra "arms for drugs" scandal of the Reagan
Administration.

The came 1989.  Abbie had been diagnosed with a bi-polar disorder
earlier in the decade, and was taking medication for the illness.   On
April 12, 1989 he died from an overdose of phenobarbital tablets at
his farm homestead near New Hope, PA.  His death was ruled a suicide,
but many of his friends stated that Abbie had been in high spirits,
and making plans for the future.  They think that it was side effects
from a new medication that may have contributed to the state of mind
leading to his death.  Others suspect a more sinister situation in
which Abbie was murdered, but made to look as if he had taken his own
life.

He was a clown and an activist, a dreamer and a realist, a believer
and a cynic....a unique voice that I miss to this day.  He never gave
up his activism, and never shortchanged the era he came of age and
influenced.  Speaking to a crowd of college students at Vanderbilt
University shortly before his death, Abbie remarked about the Sixties:

"We were young, arrogant, silly, headstrong, irreverent...and we were
right.  I regret nothing."

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While performing with the Jefferson Airplane on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Grace Slick appears in blackface and raises a black-leather glove in a power salute at the conclusion of "Crown of Creation". The incident is one of several which leads to the show's cancellation the following season. The video once appeared on YouTube, but was removed once Google bought out YouTube, another form of censorship from Big Brother Goog.
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