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Abbie Hoffman — Part 27
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nothin’. $23 a month rent. Lower East Side: Puerto Ricans
down there. Come out 2 a.ma, see, they scratch around the
garbage cans lookin' for food. Naw, stonin' it up all out
here. So we're angry, huh? Angry. Gonna fight back,
You wanna die that plastic death? On the golf course. Go
up ‘der with Ike? You wanna die fightin: in the streets for
what ya believe in. And well that second kind, that's the
groove. Don't hurt one bit. Meet a lot of nice people ina
conspiracy. Hope ya all join it. Ready take some answers,
Got any? Oh that power (illigible) Phsew.
This is a funny infirmary. She was like sorta hip,
the nurse, more like in jail. Uh, last time Iwms in jail I
had this like doc how doctor up der, ya know, doin' the whole
trip. He comes in says, "What'tya got?" I said I got chronic
bronchitis. He sayd “Drink a lot of water." (giggle) I got
cancer, doctor, Drink a lot of water.
What's goin’ on up here? Mining company's rippin'
up the hills. Loggers cuttin’ down the trees. 42 of my y
friends got busted yesterday. San Francsco. Outside of
it. Some big company wanna rip down all the trees. They
think that's big issue. Me, well, ya know, as long as they
clean up after their mess. 42 in jail. So what! People
say, well, we'd like to do somethin’ around here but, uh,
lota student apathy. That's an illusion. That means you're
apathetic. We organize a demonstration in a hospital in
New York. This is the only country I think in the world like
maybe if there's some guy here who can correct that that
d oesn‘t have pre-medical care... Ya know? $16 New York hospitais
for emergency treatment, Whether you're sick or not. Three
doctors say, "We're opposed to that." Well, they came to
us they said, “Well, ya got any ideas?" We said yeah, burn
the records. Well, they weren't ready for that trip, that's
ok. They said, uh, we got anudder idea we “11 give at slips
of paper to patients, Tell ‘em not to pay the bills. Some
write their congressman, Aggitate. Community .agitation.
Administration came down said, "You're fired." Three guys.
20 gus stood up. 20 other doctors said, “We fired - they
fired, we resen. And moreover we gonna have a press con-
‘ference. Whole worlds gonna watch." They gave in. Cut the
fee down. $2 from $4. Not only for that hospital but for
all the hospitals in New York City now. Three doctors. Three
guys in this school do something.
Eh, hepatitis comin' back. Hepatitis‘s a bad drug.
When I was arrested for that shirt thing, they put me in
jail in Washington Federal Penitentiary. Thay took a blood
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