Tom Hayden Receives First-Ever Los Angeles Free Press Lifetime Dedication Award
A New York Times book review said Tom Hayden is “the single greatest figure of the 1960’s student movement.” Richard Goodwin, a special assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson credited Hayden with creating ‘the blueprint for the Great Society programs”. He was a “Freedom Rider” in the Deep South, a founding (more).... |
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A Letter From Art Kunkin To You - About How You Can Help Grow The New Society by Art Kunkin, Founding Editor and Publisher
This alternative newspaper is dedicated to the idea that a new cooperative society of freedom-loving individuals is being born within an old society dominated by competition and fear. This new society is a real birth, as real (and as invisible) as any child growing inside the body of a woman. (more)... |
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John Phillips’ New Anthem #818
In the Spring of 1967 ‘ San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)’ floated on airwaves across the entire world. It was the anthem of the time. The record was produced by Lou Adler and Papa John Phillips, written by Phillips, and sung by Scott McKenzie. (more)... |
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A “Howl” for Literary Freedom by Dick Meister - #818
It was 50 years ago this summer that Americans finally won the unfettered right to read whatever they wanted to read, a half-century since poet Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” went on trial in a San Francisco courtroom. (more)... |
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The New Hippie Movement: New Faces, but Same Bad Ideas by Mark D. Glesne - #818
A growing number of young college adults today do not accept the idea of the need for violence for just and moral reasons in the defense of our country. (more)... |
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