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Abbott Hoffman, Aka — Part 22

127 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Sep 10, 1968 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Abbott Hoffman, Aka · 127 pages OCR'd
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ung aw The march to where? ™ HR: The biernadonal Armonithea. CT Senso tre, where the convention 4s, Phere ts definitely a march that the mobilization is planning. L: Those wlawishto.o7In other words it’s optional for those who wish to fo on the march? H; Ail the eveats are optional, of course, L: What are you going to dowhen you get there? H: They plan to have a rally and vigil, Our feeling is that peeple who plan to go on that march or to participate in civil disobedience in downtown Chicago, as many groups are planaing to do, ought to be prozaived for a very heavy scone, There ere ten thousand Nationat Guard troops here, Thore’s an eight foot barbed wire fence with-a mile clreumference around the Amphitheatre and an- other fence within that, Very heavy scene, AUGUST 29th and 30th: We have unschecuied events, although we - plan to silll be in the park, L; What events? H: Wo’re unsure whal’s going to happen that night, We do have plans to do a death of Yippie ceremony, Whore we burn afl the posters and butions, ete. L: Is that like the desth of Hip- pie? Does that mean that Yinpee fs only for this cccasion? H: Our message is that people are free, They shouldn't have labels, ‘ L: But you're not adopting the Free Man label thst they are in San Francisco? Or ara you? H: Well, birth of the free people, L: Well, that's similar to the San Franelsco event, But they are keeping the name Free Sian, “youtnew, H; We are working mainly on Wie roonts of the first three days, and _ _ w+ ee = al tae at eit. 8 ec O bs—Then youl have the deaths oF Yippie, and thal will be the cad of this event? HW: Yes, L: Who else is coming besides Allen? That you know of, Hr: Burrouzas, Genet, L: Genet? I diaa’t krow he was ta the country, H: He's covering it for FSQUIRE, Krassnor, of course, Ed Saniers ts coming in tomorrow. He's the music coordinator, There are two croups of rock musicians, One group of abcut twenty bands fs tolally committed to coming, no malter what, Another group often (watch includes the heaviest bands) is committed to coming only if we col apermit, They may be talked Into coming anyway, L: Does that inctude the Afr- plane? H: The Airplane never was com- ing in the first place, L: How about Country Joe? He. That would includ: Country Joe and the Fish, Ario Guthrie ts in the second group, Uwe geta permit only, L: How about the United States of America? H: I'm not sure where thoy are, Er’s goiug to start the coorcina- tion from hese, They pledjed to come, but we haven’ Ubceit in touch with then, It’s very difficutt for us to give them information, They” always ask you (s there 4 pera? Now concerning the permit sit- uation, We've had numerous cis- cussions ond negotiations with Deputy Mayor David Stahl, The city officials are very scared, They dowt inow what the hell to do, sed we just impressed upon them the tremendous number of peopte coming. L: What about the tremendous number of poople? What word do you have tat there will be a great sotting up infern.ation Loetveatd ¢ number of pronle? prepzring maps ondtzaining ses- and atl that, “. —— ee, nee Tine y “Fe H: There were {vio thousand n-agie, ———y, > ~4h. Sst. Suushine is coming. ta We tad a relly yesterday. . te ee . TT ee a em tin faobhase: Qasumed from “estat. that you cout) pet forether anys where from tvs fothree thousand Peopie in Chiraso alone, HM; Yosh, they were at the rally yesterday, L; What aboutother celtics, onthe East and West Cotsts. H;: Well, there are bike groups comiag in. J would cxpect 20-25, 000 poople from New York alone, Every free bus is already booked in New York, L: Have you hac any Indication from the West Coast? H: A guy named Super Joe, the guy that put the fiewers iu the yesterday and sald that a lot of i people fears Berkeley had siready started oul, We've gotten letters from L,A,, from the Coast and even from Canada that say they're \ rifles at the Pealngzon czme in 1 ! corning, Our facling fs that we | wou't got a permit, bul that they will tolerate the event, L: How aboul policing the evant? HR: We piantopolice itourselves, That’s what the Graining session is about, L: Of cow” 2 you'll ive moni- tors, but dil ihe city express any view ca this fssue? H: They have not given us any real information, They're just trying (o get infor mation fromus, L: ts Jerry Rubin wel} enoughto ationd? HR: Yes, Nel be hore intwo more @ays. ll give you my ows private Rumber: 312 area cede 327-9244, L; How about crash pads for poo-~ pie coming, Is thereany vrrange- ment of this sort? H: We're raaking arrangements with people thal live near tie park for the housing of pocpin who come before the Ziti. Aor that e-would rather have evaystey sleep in the pari, We foot that exer strengun is it numbers oH het the police woa'l do anytiing if Hires are a lotof poopie thee. --
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