Rules for Radicals
Rules for Radicals

Author: Saul Alinsky

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2010-06-30

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0307756890

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“This country's leading hell-raiser" (The Nation) shares his impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” First published in 1971 and written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition.

Yippie Girl: Exploits in Protest and Defeating the FBI
Yippie Girl: Exploits in Protest and Defeating the FBI

Author: Judy Gumbo

Publisher: Three Rooms Press

Published: 2022-05-03

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9781953103185

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Lifelong activist Judy Gumbo, an original member of the Yippies (Youth International Party), a 1960s counter culture and satirical anti-war group, offers an insider feminist memoir of her involvment with the Yippies, Black Panthers, Chicago Eight Conspiracy Trial defendants, and her fight against secret FBI surveillance of her day-to-day activities. In this positive story of a young woman's self-actualization and constructive radicalism mixed with humor, author Judy Gumbo offers the first insider's feminist perspective of life as a member of the Yippies. In 1967, Gumbo arrived in Berkeley and immediately became involved with the activist community. In the Spring of 1968, she joined the Yippies as one of its few female members, and--at the raucous Chicago Democratic National Convention--helped with their efforts to run a pig named Pigasus for President. She continued her activism, helping stage Berkeley's People's Park protests, advocating for women's rights through W.I.T.C.H. (Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell), a Yippie guerilla theater feminist group, and becoming involved with the Black Panthers. Gumbo's activism was so extensive, that by 1972, the FBI described her as "the most vicious, the most anti-American, the most anti-establishment, and the most dangerous to the internal security of the United States." In 1975, she discovered that the FBI had placed a tracking device on her car. Her home was broken into and a listening device was installed. As a result, she was part of a lawsuit that successfully challenged warrantless wiretapping. Yet through it all, Gumbo maintains her commitment to radicalism mixed with humor. She details her life as a protester to show that, while circumstances always change, protesters can stay loyal to the causes they believe in and remain true to themselves. At the same time, she reveals how dogmatism, authoritarianism, and interpersonal conflict can damage those same just causes. Ultimately, Yippie Girl serves as a strategic guide for activists on having fun with politics while experiencing the joy of protesting against injustice in all its forms.

Subculture
Subculture

Author: Dick Hebdige

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-08

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1136494731

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First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. It is much less easy to grasp the fact that such change will inevitably affect the nature of those disciplines that both reflect our society and help to shape it. Yet this is nowhere more apparent than in the central field of what may, in general terms, be called literary studies. ‘New Accents’ is intended as a positive response to the initiative offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change. To stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study.

Hippie Modernism
Hippie Modernism

Author: Greg Castillo

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9781935963097

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Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia accompanies an exhibition of the same title examining the art, architecture and design of the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s. The catalogue surveys the radical experiments that challenged societal and professional norms while proposing new kinds of technological, ecological and political utopia. It includes the counter design proposals of Victor Papanek and the anti-design polemics of Global Tools; the radical architectural visions of Archigram, Superstudio, Haus Rucker Co and ONYX; the media-based installations of Ken Isaacs, Joan Hills and Mark Boyle and Helio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida; the experimental films of Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner and John Whitney; posters and prints by Emory Douglas, Corita Kent and Victor Moscoso; documentation of performances staged by the Diggers and the Cockettes; publications such as Oz Magazine and The Whole Earth Catalog and books by Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller; and much, much more. While the turbulent social history of the 1960s is well known, its cultural production remains comparatively under-examined. In this substantial volume, scholars explore a range of practices such as radical architectural and anti-design movements emerging in Europe and North America; the print revolution in the experimental graphic design of books, posters and magazines; and new forms of cultural practice that merged street theater and radical politics. Through a profusion of illustrations, interviews with figures including Gerd Stern and Michael Callahan of USCO, Gunther Zamp Kelp of Haus Rucker Co, Ken Isaacs, Ron Williams and Woody Rainey of ONYX, Franco Raggi of Global Tools, Tony Martin, Clark Richert and Richard Kallweit of Drop City, and new scholarly writings, this book explores the hybrid conjunction of the countercultural ethos and the modernist desire to fuse art and life.

People of the Rainbow
People of the Rainbow

Author: Michael I. Niman

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780870499890

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A fictional re-creation of a day in the life of a Rainbow character named Sunflower begins the book, illustrating events that might typically occur at an annual North American Rainbow Gathering. Using interviews with Rainbows, content analysis of media reports, participant observation, and scrutiny of government documents relating to the group, Niman presents a complex picture of the Family and its relationship to mainstream culture - called "Babylon" by the Rainbows. Niman also looks at internal contradictions within the Family and examines members' problematic relationship with Native Americans, whose culture and spiritual beliefs they have appropriated.

Groove Tube
Groove Tube

Author: Aniko Bodroghkozy

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2001-02-08

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0822380080

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Critics often claim that prime-time television seemed immune—or even willfully blind—to the landmark upheavals rocking American society during the 1960s. Groove Tube is Aniko Bodroghkozy’s rebuttal of this claim. Filled with entertaining and enlightening discussions of popular shows of the time—such as The Monkees, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Mod Squad—this book challenges the assumption that TV programming failed to consider or engage with the decade’s youth-lead societal changes. Bodroghkozy argues that, in order to woo an increasingly lucrative baby boomer audience, television had to appeal to the social and political values of a generation of young people who were enmeshed in the hippie counterculture, the antiwar movement, campus protests, urban guerilla action—in general, a culture of rebellion. She takes a close look at the compromises and negotiations that were involved in determining TV content, as well as the ideological difficulties producers and networks faced in attempting to appeal to a youthful cohort so disaffected from dominant institutions. While programs that featured narratives about hippies, draft resisters, or revolutionaries are examined under this lens, Groove Tube doesn’t stop there: it also examines how the nation’s rebellious youth responded to these representations. Bodroghkozy explains how, as members of the first “TV generation,” some made sense of their societal disaffection in part through their childhood experience with this powerful new medium. Groove Tube will interest sociologists, American historians, students and scholars of television and media studies, and others who want to know more about the 1960s.

Direct Action
Direct Action

Author: David Graeber

Publisher: AK Press

Published: 2009-09-01

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13: 1849350353

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A radical anthropologist studies the global justice movement.

Countercultures and Popular Music
Countercultures and Popular Music

Author: Sheila Whiteley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-13

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 131715892X

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’Counterculture’ emerged as a term in the late 1960s and has been re-deployed in more recent decades in relation to other forms of cultural and socio-political phenomena. This volume provides an essential new academic scrutiny of the concept of ’counterculture’ and a critical examination of the period and its heritage. Recent developments in sociological theory complicate and problematise theories developed in the 1960s, with digital technology, for example, providing an impetus for new understandings of counterculture. Music played a significant part in the way that the counterculture authored space in relation to articulations of community by providing a shared sense of collective identity. Not least, the heady mixture of genres provided a socio-cultural-political backdrop for distinctive musical practices and innovations which, in relation to counterculture ideology, provided a rich experiential setting in which different groups defined their relationship both to the local and international dimensions of the movement, so providing a sense of locality, community and collective identity.