Abbie Hoffman - The Realist 1968: The yippies are going to Chicago

[mogster]

http://www.ep.tc/realist/82/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbie_Hoffman

I'm on a history trip here, thanks Octafish. Very interesting read, this counter-cultural mag. Or fanzine, as we used to call it when the punk movement hit some decades later. News by the people, for the people.

How creepy isn't the secret assassination program and how eerie isn't the fact that the society has failed to reveal the CIA's secret govermnent since this number of the Realist, and brought it into mainstream reality. How come? The only answer is: the media.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. I subscribed to "The Realist" when I was in college.

Thanks for the memories.

[mogster]

2. The online documentation of back issues goes on

Here:
http://www.ep.tc/realist/

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Thanks.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

4. Paul Krassner was wonderful and I read the Realist often. Krassner pushed the

envelope all the time. Do you remember the Realist Nun and the Disney centerfold?

Thanks for this "blast from the past".

I attended a pre-convention Yippie meeting that was held at the New School in NYC. I was still in high school and had no idea what the meeting was about. I saw an ad for it in the Village Voice and decided to go with a friend. There was discussion of pranks that could be played. I was quite bored or stoned..don't remember but took out a balloon that I had in my bag and started playing with it. Others sitting on the floor joined in. Someone then came up with the idea of bringing condoms to Chicago and blowing them up. :) It's so long ago that I can't recall what else went on.

It kind of freaked me out and amazed me at the same time, when all hell broke out in Chicago, that I was at a meeting that was part of it.

[mogster]

8. You're legends

Many of you DU'ers have just lived all this history :-)
It was a crazy time.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

10. lol! Yes, it was a crazy time, exhilarating time, trying to make a difference

and being a flowerchild...having lots of fun in the process!

And being from NY, the music I heard up close and personal, is legendary too. :)

Joplin, The Stones, The Loving Spoonful, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Judy Collins, Leonard Cohen, The Grateful Dead, Ike and Tina Turner, Phil Ochs, Joni Mitchell.

I wouldn't trade my experiences back then with anyone.

[Mari333]

15. I went to a yippie convention in NYC

I was about 21 or so..omg. I dont remember much of it..Krassner was there. someone played Alice's Restaurant. I remember the crash pads I stayed at. long weird stories. maybe I saw u there LOL

[laststeamtrain]

5. K & R-- Remember the Realist's promotional bumper sticker?

FUCK COMMUNISM.

[mogster]

7. Haha!

I didn't see that :D

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

11. This was the Disney centerfold I mentioned in my above post! I was searching for a large

jpg of it and you found it!

:rofl:

[bluesmail]

17. HA! I have that on my wall.

[proteus_lives]

6. So this was back when they took that jackass Amiri Baraka seriously?

Still, funny mag.

[H2O Man]

9. Thank you for this.

Classic stuff. Abbie was a wonderful, intense human being. His energy, organizing skills, and sense of humor were an important part of the 1960s. Young folk should study his work closely.

I never had a chance to know him well. But the little time that I did get to spend with him was a blast. The last time I saw him, in Oneonta, NY, I gave him a large archaic-era spear head that I had found earlier in the day.

[mogster]

12. Here's the movie about Abbie Hoffman, at google video

Steal this movie!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5858962939917432628

Thanks for sharing, H2O Man. Hoffman would have liked the DU, I think ;-)

[H2O Man]

13. It's a good movie.

I would strongly recommened his books for anyone interested in a unique view of the '60s and '70s. My favorite would be "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture."

[Echo In Light]

14. Recommended

[bluesmail]

16. Paul Krassner and Mae Brussell were close. He'd drop his daughter

off at Mae Brussell's home. I also subscribed to The Realist. Was wondering lately if I have any stashed around.