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Abbie Hoffman — Part 5

234 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Mar 23, 1969 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 234 pages OCR'd
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IP 109-17576 17 trevolution. No leaflets for the Tories. The girl had ripped the Kodachrome in two. The eyes blinked and one saw two pictures. Them - us3 us - them}; them - us. And then more. Musketa and Redcoats and freedom rides and bella and blue noses and f--- and naked bodies in the pools and statues molding on the hills and the State Capitol glowing in the sunset on the hill. The childhood remembrances for Boston was home. The girl and the two long-haired guys are transformed. They are Crispus Attucks. They are kmeeling, praying in a Birmingham church when a ‘bomb comes flying through the window. A heavy voice behind me amirks up from the leaflet and drawls, Hey boy you people better not start anything tonight. We don't like your kind in Boston. Yes sir. There was wonderful. hunting season all over again. The United States and Mississippi had found themselves another nigger. July 21, 1968. "So there wa sit. Two, maybe three, maybe more Americas. Headed to the future on a super trip and the future? Well, it's up for grabs. "Yeah. Well, I think .. wh... well, two ideas .. one: that students obviously have to play a role in deciding things that affect their own life. Basically, that means not relating to this place as an institution, but as a commnity and in a commnity, the people that live in that comunity --make the decisions that affect their lives. And che -—~ second thing is breaking down of thse barriers between this commmity when it is a commmity and the other community that's in the towns so that students go out on like more field trips md learn directly, first hand, the problems of the people in the areas as they are facing them and experience it more directly. Those two ideas are the plans for the tnmiversities. (More unintelligible remarks from audience) HOFFMAN: "Yeah. Well, everybody says that. , -32-
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