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the beginning of 1966
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Beginning A Year of Promise
They smoked dope on the streets People were happy The 1st head shop “The Psychedelic Shop” had opened, signaling the beginning of the psychedelic revolution The year began with everything going well |
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enter the diggers in 1966
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Enter The Diggers
As we discussed, the Diggers were formed from members of the San Francisco Mime Troup. By May of 1966 the Mime Troup was being outcast by the city: • The newly formed SF Arts Resources Development Committee held its first meeting without inviting members of the Mime Troup who crashed it and were arrested. • The Mime Troup was cut off from receiving city funding because of its “bawdy” performances • The SF Recreation and Park Commission denies a permit application from the SF Mime Troupe By August of 1966 Mime Troup members created The Diggers as a “revolutionary free” response to “artistic repression. |
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the first breaking point of 1966
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The First Breaking Point
The first true turning point came when on September 27, 1966 a white policeman shot and killed a Black youth in the Haight and riots broke out. The following evening, National Guard troops arrived in the area to enforce an 8:15 p.m. curfew. The Berkeley chapter of Students for a Democratic Society organized protests against the curfew in solidarity with black militants. The hip merchants, however, posted flyers around the neighborhood advising their fellow Hashburians to stay indoors, consistent with their understanding of the Buddhist third way of nonconfrontation. The Diggers disagreed with both camps. They posted notices of their own, advising hippies to follow their inner impulses, and stay home or traverse the streets heedless of the state's curfew, the New Left's call to protest, and the proprietors' counsel of nonconfrontation. As anarchists, their primary interest lay in fostering resolute selfsovereignty. Two later pronouncements described the Diggers as the “F-Leader Youth" and warned that "any man who wants to lead you is The Man. Think: why would anyone want to lead me? Think: why should I pay for his trip?" |
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when LSD became illegal
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LSD Becomes Illegal
(And so does Love) On 6 October 1966, the date when LSD became a controlled substance, members of the Haight organized a Love Pageant Rally to reaffirm the drug's potential as a positive stimulus to the expansion of consciousness. "Without confrontation," the hippies said "we wanted to create a celebration of innocence. We were not guilty of using illegal substances. We were celebrating transcendental consciousness. The beauty of the universe. The beauty of being." Thousands showed up for the event, read a "declaration of independence" after which many placed a tab of acid on their tongues and swallowed in unison. Music was provided by the Grateful Dead and Big Brother & the Holding Company. Kesey and the Pranksters were also on hand in the legendary bus. |
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2 things that Bill Graham was worried about with the acid tests
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1) Kesey was espousing his “Never trust a prankster”
philosophy which began to worry everyone about what he might try at the event 2) The following day Winterland was to be used as a rally for Jerry Brown, hip governor of California who was running for President. Who knows what dire tricks Kesey might leave in the hall? |
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freeing the streets
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Free the Streets
The Diggers decided that the idea of regulating pedestrian traffic (i.e. no jaywalking) was actually a state plot to benefit commercial interests. On October 31 the Diggers decided to free the streets. They set up their yellow, wooden Free Frame of Reference at the corner of Haight and Masonic. With two puppets from the Mime Troupe (each standing about eight feet high) they warmed up a crowd of about five hundred with a skit, "Any Fool on the Street," in which the puppets passed repeatedly through the Frame while carrying on an absurd, boisterous argument about which side constituted the "inside." With the assembled throng now primed for participation, the Diggers proceeded to the next stage of their plan. They invited the assembled crowd to stroll the crosswalks, in disregard of traffic law, creating as many geometrical figures as possible. Traffic came to a standstill. The traffic jam brought the expected police response, with five squad cars and a paddy wagon worming their way into the intersection to unsnarl traffic. According to the Barb, a New Left newspaper in Berkeley that sometimes covered events in the Haight, someone noted that the police presence "kinda creates a road-block, doesn't it?" |
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the death of money at the rebirth of haight
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The Death of Money and
Rebirth of the Haight In December the Diggers put on their Death of Money rebirth of the Haight parade The Digger's handbill for this event consisted only of the term NOW! in bold red letters. The framing came more from the props that they distributed in a carefully ordered sequence As a crowd of thousands assembled (it is unclear how they knew where and when to gather), a procession entered the street. First came members of the Hell's Angels, with one of the Diggers, Phyllis Wilner, standing up from the bike's passenger seat, wailing, "Free-eeeeeeee!" and holding one of the NOW! signs. Behind this leather-clad escort came a mock funeral procession, dressed in animal-head costumes designed and bearing a coffin holding the "remains" of the "Dead Old Haight": oversized replicas of currency and coins. The leading mourner carried a staff topped with chrome-plated dollar signs. The mourners sang a dirge that fused the lyric of a popular song, "You Keep Me Hangin' On," to the melody of Chopin's Funeral March in B-flat At a later point, the Diggers distributed recorders and pennywhistles, to provide accompaniment for the chanting of a mantra conceived by Beat poet Michael McClure, and two hundred rearview mirrors, which participants used to reflect sunlight on the surrounding buildings, creating a psychedelic light-show effect. Several Diggers also distributed flowers, streamers, joss sticks, and the NOW! signs. All went as planned until the police arrested two Angels and Wilner, for standing on a moving motorcycle. The Diggers turned the procession in the opposite direction, marching first to the Park Precinct station and then to the downtown lockup, where they used the "coffin" to collect bail money for the incarcerated Angels. This gesture helped cement an alliance between the Diggers and the motorcycle gang. |
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human be in
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The Human Be-In was an event in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on January 14, 1967.[1] It was a prelude to San Francisco's Summer of Love, which made the Haight-Ashbury district a symbol of American counterculture and introduced the word "psychedelic" to suburbia.
In an attempt to counteract the growing negativity, the Tribal Elders of the Haight decided to stage a Human Be-In in Golden Gate park. It would be called “A Gathering of the Tribes for a Human Be-In” and would be held January 14 It would feature many of the San Francisco bands as well as all of the Haight’s Tribal Elders. In order to make it as inclusive and non-devisive as possible all groups from across the Bay Area were invited: the artists, writers, the HIP merchants, musicians, political groups from Berkeley, the Diggers Only the Diggers didn’t show up. At the end of the meeting, after the activities were planned, the Berkeley politicos stood up and said: “Okay… so what are our demands going to be?” In reality, although the Human Be-In may have been presented as a “Gathering of the Tribes” and designed with great spiritual and noble intentions, it was little more than an extremely successful free concert. But that wasn’t how it was perceived by the rest of the country. Older people in the mainstream saw it as evidence that America’s youth were out of control, and America’s youth saw it as evidence that they (young people) were in control and San Francisco was the place to be. The message had been sent out: Come to San Francisco.” The Summer of Love was about to happen. |
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Problem with "The summer of san francisco" song
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1) The timing was off. The song wasn’t released until June,
the migration was well under way by then. 2) The intent was wrong. The song was written to publicize the Monterey Pop Festival. 3) Most real hippies, or freaks, HATED the song. Compared to the music they were used to hearing “San Francisco” was just pop pabulum. Realizing that things were getting out of hand the Diggers tried to bring this to everyone’s realization with publications of their broadsides that said things like: “Pretty little sixteen-year-old middle class chick comes to the Haight to see what it’s about and gets picked up by a seventeen year old street dealer who spends all day shooting her full of speed again and again, then feeds her 3000 mikes & raffles off her temporarily unemployed body for the biggest Haight Street gang bang since the night before last. The politics & ethics of ecstasy. Rape is as common as BS on Haight Street. By the time the song was released the Haight was already jammed with young people, who couldn’t take care of themselves. And following them were people like Charles Manson who was also lured to the Haight by the publicity and who saw the young migrants as easy picking. |
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the Monterey Pop festival
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In June, John Phillips from the Mamas and the Papas lead other
promoters in creating the first rock festival. Not only was this the first festival featuring just about every band imaginable, it also introduced the world to: Janis Joplin Jimi Hendrix THE MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL There was another group of individuals who had been paying attention to all the news that was coming out of the Haight, and they also descended on the Monterey Pop Festival like buzzards: Record executives, producers, managers, and all the other agents of the “business” of music. Every single band that performed at the festival that wasn’t already under contract was signed. With one exception: The Grateful Dead Where once the bands had served a community service doing free concerts, supporting the community, being part “of” the community, they were now professionals in the capital business of music. |
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the 4 signs of the fall of 1967
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CONTEXT, CONTEXT, CONTEXT
By Fall of 1967 the signs were everywhere: 1) It would be 1 year since LSD was made illegal 2) The music had been co-opted by the Monterey Pop Festival 5 months earlier 3) The Summer of Love Human Be-In had been 2 months earlier and failed to change anything 4) The Grateful Dead were busted on October 1 Finally, after actually having been exploited by the media for almost two years, the Haight was getting the idea that they had, in fact, become exactly how the media had interpreted them. They had lost their authenticity and had become a mere fabrication that they had assisted the media in creating. |
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what's all it mean with social drama
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What’s it all Mean?
Anthropologist Victor Turner described the various units of a community’s life as social processual elements of social drama. Within this Turner saw four phases: Breech: The infraction of some law, custom, morality in a public way. Crisis: A momentous juncture or turning point Redress: A way to limit the spread of the breech, often through ritual sacrifice Reintegration or recognition of schism |
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the first press release of the death of hippie
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THE DEATH OF HIPPIE
The first Press Release: The media casts nets, creates bags for the identity hungry to climb in. Your face on TV, your style immortalized without soul in the captions on the Chronicle. NBC says you exist, ergo I am… And the reflections run in perpetual anal circuits and the FREE MAN vomits his images and laughs in the clouds because he, the great evader, the animal who haunts the jungles of image and sees no shadow, only the hunter’s gun, and knows sahib is too slow and he flexes his strong loins of FREE and is gone again from the nets. They fall on empty air and waft helplessly on the grass. FOLLOW THE LEADER After the initial gesture begun by the Psychedelic Shop, all the merchants of the Haight began to give away their merchandise in preparation for the ceremony, and what would be an exodus from the Haight. Big Brother and the Holding Company were closing down the Matrix At the same time a Wake for Hippie was held at All Saints Church |
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the death
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THE DEATH
Mourners danced around the flames until they sank down to a level where they could actually jump over the flames The coffin was carried to the panhandle section of Golden Gate Park and set ablaze on a funeral pyre. |
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haight's response to the death
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The Haight’s Response
The Haight, through the death, responded in a very clear, direct, and extremely rare manner to Turner’s phases: Breech: the influx of all the thousands of people Crisis: The Summer of Love - articulated the problems very clearly Redress: Literal self-sacrifice Reintegration: self-reincarnation or magic rejuvination |