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4 giorni fa · While the Who were playing, Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman jumped the stage to complain about the arrest of John Sinclair. Townshend promptly knocked him offstage with his guitar, shouting, "Fuck off my fucking stage!"
1 mag 2024 · Non vedono l’analogia tra questa rivolta e la ribellione che alla fine degli anni sessanta stravolse il volto dell’America e il suo spirito pubblico. Creò figure come quelle di Eugene McCarthy, Bob Kennedy, Abbie Hoffman, che misero a soqquadro i salotti della borghesia. È dura per il nostro establishment misurarsi con questi ...
2 mag 2024 · On August 17, 1969, Abbie Hoffman stood stageside at Woodstock. He was high but not at all happy. The festival, it seemed to him, had failed to fulfill its promise as a political event, and had instead devolved into a burlesque of commerce and self-congratulatory entertainment.
17 mag 2024 · At one point, famed yippie Abbie Hoffman wandered onstage. Townshend chased him off. The Who had reached the climax of “Tommy” — “See Me, Feel Me” — when dawn suddenly broke over the ...
5 giorni fa · Activists such as Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin would stop by our apartment and talk political shop and strategy in our Washington, DC apartment. Eventually, I became more conservative. But I’ve always known the power of Rules.
5 giorni fa · But sometimes his historical or geographic distance does lead to some misjudgments – as when he describes Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin as major leaders of the opposition to America’s war in Vietnam when they were in fact mostly media figures with a great public presence, but only a tiny following.
1 mag 2024 · Hoffman, a political activist who made headlines as a defendant in the “Chicago Seven” trial in 1969, also co-founded the “Yippies” — short for the Youth International Party. Webb, who studied law at Loyola, went on to be U.S. attorney for northern Illinois and is now one of the nation’s top trial lawyers, still headquartered in Chicago.
