Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a 5 Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial
Brilliant at Breakfast (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Abbie Hoffman was tried for conspiracy for less than this: When leftists talked about revolution in the 1960's, we were called traitors. Today when the right wing does it, it's called patriotism. Why is that? (via BradBlog )
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... Second City that was — when cameos were made not by presidential hopefuls but by, well, Abbie Hoffman. (: “The Weathermen were in the streets, and we think Abbie might have been just using the stage as an alibi so 300 people could see that he was not outside.”) This year marks the golden anniversary of priceless comedy gems: the opening of Second City in 1959 in a derelict...
Deep Politics Monitor (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... causes. His most cutting insult to the state was participation in a concert for Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, Bobby Seale and the other defendants of the Chicago Seven conspiracy trial.(2) ... "Get [the] Black Panthers," he told a reporter for a teen magazine, "not to kill anybody, but to scare [federal officials]....I know it sounds like war, but that's what's...
Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... causes. His most cutting insult to the state was participation in a concert for Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, Bobby Seale and the other defendants of the Chicago Seven conspiracy trial.(2) "Get [the] Black Panthers," he told a reporter for a teen magazine, "not to kill anybody, but to scare [federal officials]....I know it sounds like war, but that's what's...
