Steal This Book 50th Anniversary Edition

Download or read book Steal This Book written by Abbie Hoffman and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2002-02-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook of survival and warfare for the citizens of Woodstock Nation A classic of counterculture literature and one of the most influential--and controversial--documents of the twentieth century, Steal This Book is as valuable today as the day it was published. It has been in print continuously for more than four decades, and it has educated and inspired countless thousands of young activists. Conceived as an instruction manual for radical social change, Steal This Book is divided into three sections--Survive! Fight! and Liberate! Ever wonder how to start a guerilla radio station? Or maybe you want to brush up on your shoplifting techniques. Perhaps you're just looking for the best free entertainment in New York City. (The Frick Collection--"Great when you're stoned.") Packed with information, advice, and Abbie's unique outlaw wisdom ("Avoid all needle drugs--the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon."), Steal This Book is a timeless reminder that, no matter what the struggle, freedom is always worth fighting for. "All Power to the Imagination was his credo. Abbie was the best."--Studs Terkel

Download or read book The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Official Transcript written by Mark L. Levine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Republished fifty years later to coincide with the release of the Academy Award–nominated film of the same title written and directed by Aaron Sorkin with an all-star cast, this is the classic account of perhaps the most infamous, and definitely the most entertaining, trial in recent American history. In the fall of 1969 eight prominent anti-Vietnam War activists were put on trial for conspiring to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. One of the eight, Black Panther cofounder Bobby Seale, was literally bound and gagged in court by order of the judge, Julius Hoffman, and his case was separated from that of the others. The activists, who included Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and Tom Hayden, and their attorneys, William Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass, insisted that the First Amendment was on trial. Their witnesses were a virtual who’s who of the 1960s counterculture: Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Arlo Guthrie, Judy Collins, Norman Mailer, among them. The defendants constantly interrupted to protest what they felt were unfair rulings by the judge. The trial became a circus, all the while receiving intense media coverage. The convictions that resulted were subsequently overturned on appeal, but the trial remained a political and cultural touchstone, a mirror of the deep divisions in the country. The Trial of the Chicago 7 consists of the highlights from trial testimony with a brief epilogue describing what later happened to the principal figures.

Download or read book Youth to Power written by Jamie Margolin and published by Hachette Go. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jamie Margolin is among the powerful and inspiring youth activists leading a movement to demand urgent action on the climate crisis. With determined purpose and moral clarity, Jamie is pushing political leaders to develop ambitious plans to confront this existential threat to humanity. Youth To Power is an essential how-to for anyone of any age who feels called to act to protect our planet for future generations." --- Former Vice President Al Gore Climate change activist and Zero Hour cofounder Jamie Margolin offers the essential guide to changemaking for young people. The 1963 Children's March. The 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests. March for Our Lives, and School Strike for Climate. What do all these social justice movements have in common?They were led by passionate, informed, engaged young people. Jamie Margolin has been organizing and protesting since she was fourteen years old. Now the co-leader of a global climate action movement, she knows better than most how powerful a young person can be. You don't have to be able to vote or hold positions of power to change the world. In Youth to Power, Jamie presents the essential guide to changemaking, with advice on writing and pitching op-eds, organizing successful events and peaceful protests, time management as a student activist, utilizing social and traditional media to spread a message, and sustaining long-term action. She features interviews with prominent young activists including Tokata Iron Eyes of the #NoDAPL movement and Nupol Kiazolu of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, who give guidance on handling backlash, keeping your mental health a priority, and how to avoid getting taken advantage of. Jamie walks readers through every step of what effective, healthy, intersectional activism looks like. Young people have a lot to say, and Youth to Power will give you the tools to raise your voice.

Download or read book How We Show Up written by Mia Birdsong and published by Hachette Go. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Invitation to Community and Models for Connection After almost every presentation activist and writer Mia Birdsong gives to executives, think tanks, and policy makers, one of those leaders quietly confesses how much they long for the profound community she describes. They have family, friends, and colleagues, yet they still feel like they're standing alone. They're "winning" at the American Dream, but they're lonely, disconnected, and unsatisfied. It seems counterintuitive that living the "good life"--the well-paying job, the nuclear family, the upward mobility--can make us feel isolated and unhappy. But in a divided America, where only a quarter of us know our neighbors and everyone is either a winner or a loser, we've forgotten the key element that helped us make progress in the first place: community. In this provocative, groundbreaking work, Mia Birdsong shows that what separates us isn't only the ever-present injustices built around race, class, gender, values, and beliefs, but also our denial of our interdependence and need for belonging. In response to the fear and discomfort we feel, we've built walls, and instead of leaning on each other, we find ourselves leaning on concrete. Through research, interviews, and stories of lived experience, How We Show Up returns us to our inherent connectedness where we find strength, safety, and support in vulnerability and generosity, in asking for help, and in being accountable. Showing up--literally and figuratively--points us toward the promise of our collective vitality and leads us to the liberated well-being we all want.

Download or read book Woodstock Nation written by Abbie Hoffman and published by New York : Vintage Books. This book was released on 1969 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Abbie Hoffman, Yippie non-leader, notorious dope addict and up-and-coming rock group (the WHAT), is currently on trial with seven others for conspiracy to incite riot during the Democratic Convention. When he returned from the Woodstock Festival he had five days before leaving for Chicago to prepare for the trial. Woodstock Nation, which the author wrote in longhand while lying upside down, stoned, on the floor of an unused office of the publisher, is the product of those five days. Other works by Mr. Hoffman include Revolution for the Hell of It and Fuck the System, which he describes as a "tender love epic"."-- Back cover.

Download or read book Steal This Book written by Abbie Hoffman and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail- that graduate school ofsurvival. Here you learn how to use toothpaste as glue, fashion a shiv out of aspoon and build intricate communication networks. Here too, you learn the onlyrehabilitation possible-hatred of oppression.Steal This Book is, in a way, a manual of survival in the prison that is Amerika. Itpreaches jailbreak. It shows you where exactly how to place the dynamite thatwill destroy the walls. The first section-SURVIVE!-lays out a potential actionprogram for our new Nation. The chapter headings spell out the demands for afree society. A community where the technology produces goods and services forwhoever needs them, come who may. It calls on the Robin Hoods of SantaBarbara Forest to steal from the robber barons who own the castles ofcapitalism. It implies that the reader already is "ideologically set," in that heunderstands corporate feudalism as the only robbery worthy of being called"crime," for it is committed against the people as a whole. Whether the ways itdescribes to rip-off shit are legal or illegal is irrelevant. The dictionary of law iswritten by the bosses of order. Our moral dictionary says no heisting from eachother. To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutionsthat are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.We cannot survive without learning to fight and that is the lesson in the secondsection. FIGHT! separates revolutionaries from outlaws. The purpose of part twois not to fuck the system, but destroy it. The weapons are carefully chosen. Theyare "home-made," in that they are designed for use in our unique electronicjungle. Here the uptown reviewer will find ample proof of our "violent" nature. Butagain, the dictionary of law fails us. Murder in a uniform is heroic, in a costume itis a crime. False advertisements win awards, forgers end up in jail. Inflated pricesguarantee large profits while shoplifters are punished. Section three - LIBERATE! - concerns itself with efforts to free stuff (or at leastmake it cheap) in four cities. Sort of a quick U.S. on no dollars a day. It begins toscratch the potential for a national effort in this area. Since we are a nation ofgypsies, dope on how to move around and dig in anywhere is always needed.Together we can expand this section. It is far from complete, as is the entireproject. Incomplete chapters on how to identify police agents, steal a car, runday-care centers, conduct your own trial, organize a G.I. coffee house, start arock and roll band and make neat clothes, are scattered all over the floor of thecell. The book as it now stands was completed in the late summer of 1970. Forthree months manuscripts made the rounds of every major publisher. In all, over30 rejections occurred before the decision to publish the book ourselves wasmade, or rather made for us. Perhaps no other book in modern times presentedsuch a dilemma. Everyone agreed the book would be a commercial success. Buteven greed had its limits, and the IRS and FBI following the manuscript with theirlittle jive rap had a telling effect. Thirty "yeses" become thirty "noes" after"thinking it over." Liberals, who supposedly led the fight against censorship, talked of how the book "will end free speech."

Download or read book Steal This Book (50th Anniversary Edition) written by Abbie Hoffman and published by Hachette Go. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still Notorious, Radical, and Revolutionary 50 Years Later. A survival guide from one of the greatest creative organizers of the 20th century—now with a new foreword by co-conspirator, Lisa Fithian. Throughout the 1960's and 70's, Abbie Hoffman criss-crossed the country, ferreting out alternative ways of getting by in America—some illegal and all radical. Causing scandals with its advice on how to Survive!, Fight!, and Liberate! in the “prison that is Amerika,” Steal This Book is a revolutionary's manual to running a guerilla movement, as well as getting free food, housing, transportation, medical care, and more. This anniversary edition gives a new generation an insider's view into the movements of the sixties and seventies. While many of the holes in the system that Abbie exposed have since been plugged, the spirit of revolution, the dedication to opposing injustice, and the passion of creative activism continue to inspire today.