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Abbie Hoffman — Part 26

163 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Apr 30, 1969 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 160 pages OCR'd
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throw it. No strings attached. Do anything they want with it. “We had a Thanksgiving party for the Puerto Rican kids, a thousand people eating turkeys, everything, jeily, sweet potatoes, throwing sweet potatoes at the camcramen, throwing the squashes into the basketball nets; no knives and forks. They didn't need that. It was all....free, They could do anything they wanted with it. We didn't care cause it was fun. It was fun bringing it. Fun doing that whole trip on Thanksgiving. Salvation Army up the street, and they could only give out, they were complaining because they bad prepared for fifteen hundred people, and they only had about five hundred show up and, of course, they ehawenad ¢ham an TY anal thaw ati had ¢n wit Llika that ana SVG w it ws Ul S2LA6 MEW 8W FAY 2424 FHSS Bsa ‘everything, and say blah blah blah blah. Who the hell wants to eat? Blah. It‘s more fun throwing it at cameramen. Free society. ate ml vem i hs te ot ne dhe prs “Well, see, it's that vision. It’s that vision that brought us to Chicago, so we can have a festival of life. ws Life, joy, that French cat over there in France, just read — his book, he said revolution will be built on joy, not on sacrifice. Well, what's joy? Fighting for what you believe in is joyous. September 24, 1969, biggest circus in the world opens in Chicago. Trial of the conspiracy. — We applied for permits to sleep in Lincoln Park, eight of us, ye since they were so nice to us the last time, we had such a i good time, we're going back. Don't come, don't come, don't ) 4 come on September 24, 1969, to Chicago, Lincoln Park. Do or not come, Did you get that, FBI? Don’t come. If i'da 7 said do, I'd get another ten years. Well, guess then there's enrhnant right? Wall therv'rea a11 right nureard echonte ae Se a oe @ a6 © FE 7 We wesw She £4 BSS Se we FT ecneois they give ya pablum, lousy food and blocks to play with and call it education. Hey, look at Cuba down there. You know ¥ saw this special on TV a couple weeks ago and they said, let's show the kids studying in class, world revolution, Socialism, and all this. Brainwashing. Heavy. Brainwashing, huh. Not like here, we have free education. Everything's free. Open discussion of ideas. That's baloney, like, take any course. Like mathematics, OK. When I was a young kid they said Farser Jones had four apples, he brought them inte town to dell them for two cents each. How much profit did he make? Oh, that don't count. That's not brainwashing, right? Math class, why don't you go in there and ask then, how many atrocities did the U.S, commit today in Vietnam?
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