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Abbie Hoffman — Part 39
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wo would be vivlence. The basis for this appenred to be the
| result of the April 27th demonstrations and the reaetion of
the Chicago police force to those demonstrations. There
‘ were alse groups of peuplic, I cannot say whether they were
marshals or exactly what they were, but they were people
who were extremely radical, if not militant, people advocating
revolution and advocating that this demonstration should bo
onc of the initiating parts of that revolution and that
violence was a desirable outcome of this week in Chicago in
that it would nid in the cause of the revolution which to
my knowledge involved violence in the streets leading to
collapse of the present government. Several of the leaders,
including Abby Hoffman, indicated that violence was not
undesirable. The two groups principally involved with the
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; demonstrations on Wednesday the 28th which were originally
| intended to be peaceful and nonviolent were the Mobilization
ig {| - for Pence and the Yippies. The parade or march as it began
was nonviolent. The march emanating from the band shell in
Grant Park on August 28th was throughout its entirety as
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long as it lasted nonviolent. When the march was stopped,
people waited what must have been an hour before breaking off
from the march and moving as I previously mentioned toward
the north in an attempt to get over to Michigan Avenuc.
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