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Notes from a revolution : Com/co, the Diggers & the Haight

Title
Notes from a revolution : Com/co, the Diggers & the Haight / [edited by] Kristine McKenna and David Hollander.
Publication
[Santa Monica, Calif.] : Foggy Notion Books ; Rensselaerville, N.Y. : Fulton Ryder, Inc., 2012.

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Additional Authors
  • McKenna, Kristine.
  • Hollander, David.
  • Snyder, Gary.
Description
175 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 29 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • Color-printed, flexi-bound boards, with sewn gatherings and headbands.
  • Edited by Kristine McKenna and David Hollander.
  • Essays by Peter Coyote ("Making Visions Real") and Naomi Wolf ("The Art of Dissent"); interview by Kristine McKenna ("A Conversation With Claude Hayward"); and "A Chronology" by Kristine McKenna.
  • With 150 color and black-and-white images, including more than 100 Digger broadsides (several poems by Richard Brautigan and contributions by Gary Snyder and Lew Welch); several black-and-white photographs, including portrait photographs of Peter Berg (1937-2011) and Emmet Grogan (ca. 1943-1978), the co-founders of the Diggers; and correspondence.
  • The Diggers evolved from the San Francisco Mime Troupe, an anarchist, guerilla, street-theater group in San Francisco, and greatly enlarged the scope of their activities in the years 1965-1973; they also inspired a sister group in London. They took their name from the mid-17th-century English Diggers (and Levellers) -- revolutionary Utopians who exploited the dislocations of the Civil War to promulgate their vision of a propertyless, classless society. The most famous services provided by the San Francisco Diggers were distributing free food every day in Golden Gate Park, and their Free Stores, in which everything (clothing, books, tools, etc.) was free. The Diggers coined various slogans that became popular in counterculture circles and soon after in society at large. The best known of these are "do your own thing" and "today is the first day of the rest of your life."
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Call Number
Berg Coll+ Counterculture N68 2012
ISBN
  • 0983587035
  • 9780983587033
OCLC
794307158
Title
Notes from a revolution : Com/co, the Diggers & the Haight / [edited by] Kristine McKenna and David Hollander.
Imprint
[Santa Monica, Calif.] : Foggy Notion Books ; Rensselaerville, N.Y. : Fulton Ryder, Inc., 2012.
Edition
First edition.
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Added Author
McKenna, Kristine.
McKenna, Kristine. Contributor
McKenna, Kristine. Interviewer
Hollander, David. Editor
Snyder, Gary. Contributor
Research Call Number
Berg Coll+ Counterculture N68 2012
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