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How do you want to live?.
- Title
- How do you want to live?.
- Publication
- [San Francisco : the Diggers, 1968]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | Berg Coll+ Counterculture Diggers H69 1968 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
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- [1] p. : col ill.; 37 cm.
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- Broadsides – California – San Francisco – 20th century.
- Note
- Broadside mimeographed with Gestetner machine on tan card stock.
- Advertises the Free City Convention to be held on May Day at the Carousel Ballroom, located at Market Street and Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco.
- Reproduces the seal of the City of San Francisco in black, red, and yellow, but with the city seal's tripartite banner beneath the shield, containing the motto "Oro En Paz Fierro En Guerra" [Gold in peace, iron in war], replaced by a double banner containing the motto "Eternity is Now."
- The Carousel Ballroom was conceived by Ron Rakow, an associate of the San Francisco band The Grateful Dead. The programming was anarchic, and the venue survived only six months in 1968, during which time it hosted events for the Hell's Angels as well as for the Free City Convention.
- The broadside is reproduced in McKenna and Hollander (Notes From a Revolution, 2012) on p. 129, which assigns the incorrect date of 1967; the Carousel Ballroom was not established until 1968. McKenna and Hollander also give the size of the poster as 8 1/2 x 14". However, the Berg Collection copy (New York Public Library) and two others are wider by approximately 3/4".
- The Diggers were an anarchist, guerrilla, street-theater group in San Francisco, 1965-1973, which 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 S.F. Diggers were distributing free food every day in the park and their Free Stores, in which everything (clothing, tools, books, 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."
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Call Number
- Berg Coll+ Counterculture Diggers H69 1968
- OCLC
- 826651323
- Title
- How do you want to live?.
- Imprint
- [San Francisco : the Diggers, 1968]
- Access
- Restricted access; request permission from holding division.
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- Added Author
- Diggers (San Francisco, Calif.)Free City Collective.
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll+ Counterculture Diggers H69 1968