The Woodstock Experience (1969) You could see them sitting around fires, maybe near a lean-to they had built from leaves and branches or near some crummy outasite truck or next to a big worn green tent. The new family. Tribes sharing their possessions, breaking down the obsolete patterns of race or religion or background. Classless. […] Continue reading →

A Yippie Manifesto by Jerry Rubin This is a Viet Cong flag on my back. During the recent hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee in Washington, a friend and I are walking down the street en route to Congress – he’s wearing an American flag and I’m wearing this VC flag. The cops mass, […] Continue reading →

Torture at the 17th Precinct (1970)by Jomo Raskin On December 9th I was arrested at 50th street and 5th Avenue during a demonstration and march to protest the murder of Chairman Fred Hampton. The demonstration started at Park Avenue and 48th Street. Nixon was in the Waldorf receiving an award. At 50th and 5th windows […] Continue reading →

About 75 radical students from the City College had a glorious time doing their thing yesterday morning which was to mock an equal number of R.O.T.C. cadets doing their thing – namely drilling. For two hours the students skipped, danced, scampered and tumbled around the cadets, like a swarm of gnats. Half the cadets, with […] Continue reading →

A multiple memoir of the New Left by MICHAEL ROSSMAN That man in Chicago or wherever, the one they were doing the operation on and his heart stopped unexpectedly, and they iced his head and all while they finally got it started again, but by every test known to medical science he was dead for […] Continue reading →

The Grand Coolie Damn By Marge Piercyhttps://www.margepiercy.com/The movement is supposed to be for human liberation: how come the condition of women inside it is no better than outside? We have been trying to educate and agitate around women’s liberation for several years. How come things are getting worse? Women’s liberation has raised the level of […] Continue reading →

By Mary Moylan Mary Moylan was one of the Catonsville 9, who destroyed draft files at a Selective Service office in the suburbs of Baltimore on May 17, 1968. The 9 were convicted of two federal and four state crimes; appeals failed, and six were to begin serving their concurrent terms on April 9, 1970 […] Continue reading →

By Karen Durbin In attempting to put together an alphabet soup of the women’s liberation movement, I began to feel that I was assembling some sort of descriptive telephone book for a small city. With each new discovered and defined group came inklings of a dozen others just beyond, until it became apparent that whatever […] Continue reading →

REVOLT IN THE HIGH SCHOOLS (1969) THE WAY IT’S GOING TO BE By DIANE DIVOKY THE words of the school board were unimpeachable: It is the aim of our high school to encourage students to freely express themselves, in writing or otherwise, as part of their educational program, What they meant, in fact, was that […] Continue reading →

People of A New Age (1968) By Martin Jezer To experience the contours of the land, to feel its vibrations and penetrate its fogs and mists, is to begin to understand the fears and aspirations that shape its people. Early in May, Ray Mungo, Verandah Porche, Peter Simon, and I drove cross-country from San Francisco […] Continue reading →