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Picket C.B.S. headquarters 6th Ave at 52 St. Wed. April 1, noon on ; it's all over now Baby Blue, we've had enough.

Title: Picket C.B.S. headquarters [broadside] : 6th Ave at 52 St. Wed. April 1, noon on ; it's all over now Baby Blue, we've had enough.
Author: Systems Kid [pseud.].
Publication: [New York] : Woodstock Nation, [1970]

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Request Appointment 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 m.b. Counterculture S97 1970	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

Description

1 leaf; 35 cm

Summary

Typed mimeograph with autograph signature facsimile at bottom of page.
Condemns the electronic masking of Abbie Hoffman’s T-shirt on the Merv Griffin television talk show, which was illustrated with elements of the U.S. flag. The censorship is compared to the “treatment accorded [Black Panther] Bobby Seal [sic] in Chicago by Judge Hoffman.”
Presents six demands: “censorship like that against Brother Abbie stop now,” and the President of CBS Television, Robert Wood (d. 1986), debate Hoffman on prime time, with Marshall McLuhan as debate moderator”; “the uncensored version of the Good Friday Merv Griffin show be aired forthwith,” with the “advertizing proceeds [to be] turned over to the Combined Defense funds of the Chicago Conspiracy and Panther 21 trials”; the “immediate use” of C.B.S.’s network by “our people […] during hours of non-viewing” to be used on an multi-city “splitscreen hook-up”; the licenses of the major networks be rescinded and given to “the people;” C.B.S. should produce “programs debating the laws which prohibit T.V. in the courts and in the public assemblies of government.”
Presents four protest actions that will be taken, including “An immediate boycott of all Columbia Records for one month.”

Subject

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Call Number

Berg Coll m.b. Counterculture S97 1970

OCLC

909593428

Author

Systems Kid [pseud.].

Title

Picket C.B.S. headquarters [broadside] : 6th Ave at 52 St. Wed. April 1, noon on ; it's all over now Baby Blue, we've had enough.

Imprint

[New York] : Woodstock Nation, [1970]

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Berg Coll m.b. Counterculture S97 1970