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timboucher » The Yippie Revolution.

As you may have noticed, I’ve been feverishly trying to reclaim some of the “lost history” of the counter-culture. In particular, a group called the Yippies. I was first drawn to the Yippies by way of the excellent BBC documentary, Century of the Self. Yippie leader Stew Albert explained in an interview in Part 3 that as a reaction to the violent repression the United States government lavished upon student protestors in the late 1960’s (at the Democratic Convention in Chicago, Kent State, etc), the Left had no choice to but to change their focus and tactics:[…]