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Abbie Hoffman — Part 12
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CONFIDENTIAL
NY 100-161445- . SG
on LEE J. WEINER is identified in the
, "Chicago Daily News" of April i0, i965, "
Page 1, as an Associate Professor of
Sociology at Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois, and.an anti-war
activist in the Chicago area.
N. Festival of Life
‘Hartford, Connecticut
; Apri 14, 1970
SAS of the FBI observed a Festival of Life conducted by
the Anti~Aircraft Conspiracy in Bushnell Park in midtown
Hartford, Connecticut from 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM on April 14, 1970.
‘The affair was attended by about 2,000 persons mostly
youths of the “hippie type".
which time he stated in part as follows:
The subject spoke for approximately 20 minutes during
"Those guys down in Washington, President Agnew,
General Mitchell and Hyiakowa, Martha Raye and all those
dumb dinosaurs wha imperialism feils abroad they begin to
have a policy of fascism at home, and that's where we got to
Start fighting it. The revolution begins at home, right
in our living rooms, right here in Hartford, Connecticut, and
than wtwant to Wau Un on on
down the street in New Haven, Connecticu’..
"Right here in New Haven, Connecticut, they're trying
to railroad into the electric chair the bravest, meanest,
, revolutionary in the whole danned country, Bobby
G. Scale.’ We're never going to let that happen. We're never going
to let that happen because we know, one thing we learned in our
trial. you can't find - I'1l give $1,000 bucks to anyone whoa .
can name a liberal Senator down in Washington, that opposed that
trial. The only reason we got out is because’ 500,000 of our
brothers and sisters constituted themselves as a jury of our peers
and voted for us in this only jury in the in the old courtroom
that we have left in this dieing America, the'streets, and that's
how we got out.
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