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Hippies were members of a subgroup of the counterculture that began in the United States during the mid-1960s. By 1965, hippies had become an established social group and expanded to other countries before the movement declined in the mid-1970s.[1][2] Hippies, along with the New Left and the American Civil Rights Movement, are considered the three dissenting groups of the 1960s counterculture.[2]
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In general, the hippies of the 1960's were a-political. The innumerable protests and demonstrations were held by such groups as the Black Panthers, Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen. In 1968, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin coined the name Yippie or ... called the Youth International Party. This was originally for the flower children going to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago that year. They did such high jinks as trying to run a pig for President. This ended in the Chicago Seven Conspiracy Trial accusing the Yippies and the others involved for trying to incite riots.
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Although most hippies did not actively instigate violent revolution, there were groups that did. The most notorious of these was The Weatherman (later changed to the more gender neutral "Weather Underground"). The Weathermen not only broke into government buildings to steal FBI files, but ... took their cue from more the violent of the anarchists of the nineteenth century. This, of course, had the opposite effect intended. When a bomb exploded in the building that housed the University of Wisconsin Mathematics Department (which did some Defense Department research), it killed a graduate student. This took the wind out of anti-war demonstrations, at least on that campus.
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The Yippies outlasted the election year and became the 'political party' of hippies. They never were a registered party or took a traditional platform, but still existed. There were common stands of pro-drugs, anti-war, pro-sex, and environmentalism throughout the group, for they were hippies after all. Their core beliefs were in absolute freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Their group outlasted many of the fellow radical groups, but became weaker when Abbie Hoffman went underground for drug charges in the 1970's.
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Harry Hay was founder of the Radical Faeries, a loosely affiliated international group of mostly gay men, hippies, neopagans, environmentalists, and eco-feminists. Hay is a radical who is accredited as the founder of the modern gay rights movement in the United States. As an octogenarian Hay was still known to dress as a hippie [3].
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Known as "hippies" locally, the free-spirited group heads next for Chalmette, La., near New Orleans. Click "play" to see more of the parade and hear Waveland resident Russ Todd express his gratitude to the volunteers.
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