Research Catalog

Title

Collection of 2 Free news broadsides.

Author

Diggers (San Francisco, Calif.)

Publication

[San Francisco : the Diggers, 1968]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Caen, Herb, 1916-1997.
• Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-1998.
• Miller, Henry, 1891-1980.
• Free City Collective.

Description

[2] leaves : ill.; 36 cm.

Subject

• Counterculture > California > San Francisco
• Hippies > California > San Francisco
• Political activists > California

Genre/Form

Broadsides – California – San Francisco – 20th century.

Note

• Broadside typescripts mimeographed with Gestetner machine.
• First broadside: "Free news / The city is yours. / You are the city. / Free city [...] First international exposition of the free city of San Francisco June 21 1968 / in the parks on the streets the docks on top of the hills where will you be? / One % free"; with a quote by Henry Miller from The World of Sex, and a photograph of a baby in perambulator being licked by dog; on verso an unattributed series of satiric "news" stories titled "Show Me A Rose Or Leave Me Alone"; typescript mimeographed on sheet of yellow paper.
• Second broadside: "Free News. Dear Herb Caen: Briefly on my nude exit [...]," a letter signed by Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of Information, Black Panther Party, illustrated with reproduction in purple of anatomical drawing with side view of male torso and front view of a leg; typescript mimeographed on cream paper. Letter interprets violence of Oakland police against Cleaver (in a gunfight following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.), who stripped naked to surrender, as expression of repressed homosexuality.
• 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)

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Call Number

Berg Coll+ Counterculture Diggers F74 1968

OCLC

826735065

Author

Diggers (San Francisco, Calif.)

Title

Collection of 2 Free news broadsides.

Imprint

[San Francisco : the Diggers, 1968]

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Added Author

Caen, Herb, 1916-1997. Addressee

Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-1998. Contributor

Miller, Henry, 1891-1980.

Free City Collective.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll+ Counterculture Diggers F74 1968