Today in Labor History August 25, 1968: The Battle of Lincoln Park occurred during the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Roughly 10,000 demonstrators battled approximately 11,000 riot police, 6,000 National Guard, 7,500 US army troops and 1,000 FBI, CIA & army/navy intelligence services agents. The Democratic Convention riots occurred in the wake of a year of unrest. In April, there were riots in over 100 U.S. cities, after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Presidential hopeful Robert Kennedy was assassinated in June. The incumbent president, Johnson, was so unpopular that he dropped out of the race rather than face the humiliation of coming in 3rd. Mayor Daley vowed that no radicals would be allowed to protest in his city. SDS leader Todd Gitlin warned, “If you come to Chicago, be sure to wear some armor in your hair,” stealing a line from the infamous flower child song, “If You Come to San Francisco.” Yippie leaders, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, threatened to spike the water supply of the International Amphitheatre with LSD and send in studs to seduce the wives of Democratic Party delegates. They also released a pig at Civic Center Plaza, who they nominated to run as the Democratic nominee for president.Police, FBI and even the CIA had infiltrated virtually every activist group participating in the demonstrations. After four days riots, 668 people had been arrested, 425 were treated at temporary medical facilities, 200 were treated on the spot, 400 had been given first aid for tear gas exposure and 110 went to hospital. A total of 192 police officers were injured. Afterward, 8 activists were tried on conspiracy charges in the infamous Chicago 7 trial (Black Panther Bobby Seale was the 8th defendant, but his case ended in mistrial, after he’d been gagged and dragged from the courtroom), leaving 7 other defendants.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #chicago #riot #Democrat #AbbieHoffman #BlackPanthers #LSD #PoliceBrutality #police #cia #BlackMastadon

Today in Labor History April 12, 1989: Radical activist, Abbie Hoffman, died on this day. Hoffman cofounded the Yippies. He was active in the Civil Rights and free speech movements of the 1950s and 1960s. He was an anti-war activist and he was one of the Chicago 7 defendants.

#LaborHistory #WorkingClass #AbbieHoffman #Yippies #antiwar #FreeSpeech #Chicago7

#PeteTownshend arguably held the #CartesianTheater when #AbbieHoffman intruded.

#TheWho
#CartesianStage

Steal This Book while you still can!

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#Anarchists #AnarchistHistory #Publishers #Books #Corporations #Monopoly #Censorship #Copyright #History #Culture #SmallPublishers #InternetArchive #IA #IndependentPublishers #ProgressivePublishers #AbbieHoffman #StealThisBook

https://archive.org/details/pdfy-TNlDHryRIk4DXKAU

Hatchett Books -- making money off of a book written by an #Anarchist who wanted people to steal it, rather than buy it. The same corporation suing the #InternetArchive for "piracy"! #AbbieHoffman is rolling in his grave!

#ThrowTrumpInJail
#NewYorkCity
#Manhattan
#TheMuseumOfModernArt
#MOMA
@MOMA
#RichardAvedon
#ChicagoSeven
#NineteenSixtyNine
#GelatinSilverPrints
#LeeWeiner
#JohnFroines
#AbbieHoffman
#RennieDavis
#JerryRubin
#TomHeyden
#DaveDellinger
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Today in Labor History January 19, 1914: IWW labor organizer and folk singer, Joe Hill, was arrested for killing two men during a grocery store robbery. He claimed innocence and the evidence against him was flimsy. However, because of his radical associations, they still framed and convicted him. President Wilson, Hellen Keller (also an IWW member) and the Swedish ambassador all asked for clemency. Hill’s final message from prison, before being shot by firing squad, was “Don’t mourn, Organize!” His ashes were sprinkled in every state of the union, except Utah because he didn’t want to be found dead in Utah. They were also sprinkled in Canada, Sweden, Australia and Canada. Some of his most famous songs were “The Preacher and the Slave,” “The Rebel Girl,” “There is Power in a Union,” “Casey Jones, the Union Scab,” and “Mr. Block.” In 1988, an envelope containing his remaining ashes was discovered. Abbie Hoffman suggested that folksinger Billy Bragg should consume them and he supposedly did, washed down, of course, with copious beer.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #joehill #IWW #union #anarchism #execution #organizer #songwriter #billybragg #AbbieHoffman #HelenKeller

True story: I once stole a copy of activist and #anarchist #AbbieHoffman's guidebook #StealThisBook, but somebody stole it from me!

To start it off, I am thinking about David Dellinger, member of the Chicago 7, WWII #ConscientiousObjector, and friend/collaborator with another person I admire #AbbieHoffman

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dellinger

Re-listening to Kara Swisher's Feb 2021 interview of Sacha Baron "Borat" Cohen, on Internet tech monopolies, fascism, and free speech. Very strongly recommended.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/opinion/sway-kara-swisher-sacha-baron-cohen.html

Audio:
https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/chrt.fm/track/8DB4DB/pdst.fm/e/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/3e43d072-f8a5-430f-bc8e-4c70aafdf3c7/episodes/869e2aed-2be7-40a6-9c59-da09fe54465a/audio/128/default.mp3

#SachaBaronCohen #KaraSwisher #podcasts #propagada #FakeNews #Facebook #Google #twitter #media #onlineMedia #fascism #ChicagoSeven #AbbieHoffman #theatreBuffo