Hellbender
03-25-2006, 08:03 AM
It was probably during my first year of college that I came across books by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. Do It! was Rubin’s best known book. Hoffman wrote Revolution for the Hell of It and Steal This Book. I wasn’t really familiar with Yippie writings before then. I was struck by a theme found in Hoffman’s book Woodstock Nation. He kept insisting that what really pissed him off the most was:
“My friends are in prison for dope and cops stop me on the street cause I have long hair.”
He stated that he opposed the Vietnam War, opposed capitalism and supported the Black Liberation Movement, but drug laws made him really angry. I could relate to that because it was marijuana laws that first got me interested in politics, during my sophomore year at Goddard High, in 1970.
That was written in my book: Memoirs Of A Drugged-up, Sex-crazed Yippie
Wich can be found at:
http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=28016
:)
“My friends are in prison for dope and cops stop me on the street cause I have long hair.”
He stated that he opposed the Vietnam War, opposed capitalism and supported the Black Liberation Movement, but drug laws made him really angry. I could relate to that because it was marijuana laws that first got me interested in politics, during my sophomore year at Goddard High, in 1970.
That was written in my book: Memoirs Of A Drugged-up, Sex-crazed Yippie
Wich can be found at:
http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=28016
:)