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	Abbie Hoffman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hoffman came to prominence in the 1960s, but practiced most of his activism in the 1970s, and has remained a symbol of the youth rebellion of that decade.
		Hoffman was arrested for conspiracy and inciting to riot as a result of his role in protests that led to violent confrontations with police during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
		Abbie Hoffman's courtroom antics frequently grabbed the headlines; one day, defendants Hoffman and Rubin appeared in court dressed in judicial robes, while on another day, Hoffman was sworn in as a witness with his hand giving the finger.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abbie_Hoffman (2194 words)

	Abbie Hoffman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Abbie Hoffman is the author of Steal this Book ("It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.") Fuck the system, and Revolution for the Hell of It, among other books; his life is documented in the film Steal this Movie.
		Hoffman was a 1959 graduate of Brandeis University where he was a leading player on the tennis team.
		Hoffman suffered from repeated bouts of clinical depression, and was found dead on April 12th, 1989.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/a/ab/abbie_hoffman.html (357 words)

	Abbie Hoffman: Tutte le informazioni su Abbie Hoffman su Encyclopedia.it (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hoffman si unì a molti dei principali contestatori dello stato delle cose negli anni '60, come John Lennon e Yoko Ono, Tom Hayden, Timothy Leary e G. Gordon Liddy, e si distinse per il suo modo di fondere la creatività e il suo tipico umorismo selvaggio nelle azioni di protesta.
		Hoffman fu arrestato durante la convention democratica a Chicago nel 1968, in cui il partito Yippie stava cercando di candidare alla presidenza un maiale di nome Pigasus, come componente del gruppo di persone che fu soprannominato "i sette di Chicago" (the Chicago Seven).
		Hoffman si batté su molti fronti, ma le sue passioni erano largamente personali, in un ambiente che era drasticamente cambiato sin dalla morte della controcultura.
	www.encyclopedia.it /a/ab/abbie_hoffman.html (747 words)

	Abbie Hoffman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		At trial, Hoffman described himself as "an orphan of America" and "a child of Woodstock Nation." He was, perhaps, the most intriguing figure in Judge Hoffman's courtroom.
		Hoffman was born in Worcester, Massachusetts on November 30, 1936.
		Hoffman went underwent plastic surgery and assumed the underground alias of "Barry Freed" in 1974 to avoid trial on charges of possessing cocaine.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/hoffmanA.html (251 words)

	Abbie Hoffman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		ABBIE Hoffman was an inspirational philosopher and leader of the counter culture, whose activism changed the course of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
		Hoffman was born in 1936 and lived in Worcester, Massachusetts until 1955.
		At Brandeis, Hoffman was influenced by some of the most exciting thinkers of the period, such as Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse, and psychologist Abraham Maslow, both of whom were on the Brandeis faculty.
	www.wc.pdx.edu /abbiehoffman (429 words)

	The First Time I Saw Abbie Hoffman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The first time I saw Abbie Hoffman he was running naked down the aisle of St. Mark's in the Bowery during a poetry reading and my immediate reaction was that this was rather a tasteless thing to do in a church, particularly an Episcopalian church.
		Hoffman gives a detailed description of Nixon's campaign to crush the antiwar movement and the account, from the trial of the Chicago Eight, through the Jackson State and Kent State shootings, makes depressing reading, as the counterculture whimpers to an end in the early Seventies.
		Hoffman's greatest legacy is perhaps the defunct Yippie (Youth International) Party, the sardonic and surreal political imagination of the brains not sacrificed at the altar of Moloch.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /~rbender/abbiehoffman.html (527 words)

	Abbie Hoffman
		In October of 1967 Abbie organized the "exorcism of the Pentagon" in which he and demonstrators from the Peace march in Washington D.C. surrounded the Pentagon and tried to levitate by mental force.
		Abbie Hoffman was one of the "Chicago Seven" who were arrested in connection with this "police riot".
		Hoffman and his compatriots simply used the trial as a platform for Leftists politics and the counter-culture.
	www.trincoll.edu /classes/hist300/newpage2.htm (334 words)

	Erowid Abbie Hoffman Vault
		Abbie Hoffman was a counterculture icon, civil libertarian, and peace activist of the 1960s.
		Abbie worked for a while as a psychologist in a state hospital in Massachusetts before "turning on" and co-founding the Youth International Party (Yippies) in 1967.
		For many people, Abbie Hoffman was one of the irreverant and inspirational figures at the heart of the 60s anti-war/anti-government movement.
	www.erowid.org /culture/characters/hoffman_abbie/hoffman_abbie.shtml (316 words)

	BookRags: Abbie Hoffman Biography
		Writer and activist Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989) was best known for his anti-war protests as a leader of the Youth International Party in the 1960s.
		Abbie Hoffman was born November 30, 1936, in Worcester, Massachusetts, and educated at Brandeis University (B.A., 1959) and the University of California, Berkeley (M.A., 1960).
		Hoffman's theory was that by ridiculing the symbols of authority one weakened its power as well.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/abbie-hoffman (945 words)

	The Sixties . Revolutions . Newsmakers . Abbott (Abbie) Hoffman \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		But Hoffman is also a key figure in some of the most important political trials of the century.
		In 1968, Hoffman is one of the Chicago Seven activists accused of inciting riots at the Democratic National Convention.
		By the early '70s, Hoffman starts to gain acclaim as a radical journalist and author-but is charged with cocaine possession in '74.
	www.pbs.org /opb/thesixties/topics/revolution/newsmakers_2.html (344 words)

	Love During Wartime: Mark Twain & Abbie Hoffman
		Abbie changed his name because he was on the lam from the law.
		Hoffman is best known as one of the Chicago Eight (later 7), arrested in connection with the riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.
		Hoffman's humor was, sadly, closely connected to his time, and does not translate so well almost 40 years later.
	jacsongs.blogspot.com /2005/11/mark-twain-abbie-hoffman.html (525 words)

	For the Hell of It: The Life and Times of Abbie Hoffman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Abbie's dramatic life itself is a "false document": a fabulous story that blurs the line between fact and fiction, reallity and fantasy, autobiography and mythology.
		I knew Abbie Hoffman--whom I think of as the quintessential spirit of the sixties--for almost twenty years, and for much of that time I wasn't sure when he was acting, when he was for real, and when he was acting for real.
		Looking back at Abbie from the vantage point of the nineties, it seems to me that he was the first American cultural revolutionary in the age of television.
	www.sonoma.edu /people/Raskin/Jnb.html (230 words)

	The Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A major figure in the 1960s, Abbie Hoffman was integral to the counterculture and antiwar movements.
		And it left me with more respect for Abbie than I began with.… Abbie is serious." Abbie Hoffman's autobiography begins with his childhood in Worcester, Massachusetts, and moves through his years of social activism, documenting a truly inspiring political journey.
		Hoffman's unwavering commitment to his beliefs continues to provide inspiration to new generations unsatisfied with the current state of affairs.
	www.4w8w.com /bookhoffman1.html (325 words)

	disinformation \| abbie hoffman
		Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989) was a complex and deeply paradoxical social activist and media celebrity, whose legendary culture-jamming exploits have come to characterise the period's para-political turmoil and counter-culture.
		Hoffman battled many fronts, but his demons were largely personal, in an environment that had dramatically changed since the demise of the Counter-culture.
		Hoffman's social revolution ideals were finally realised through the 1989 collapse of Eastern European 'puppet' Communist states, but plagued by manic depression, Hoffman had died by suicide.
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/dossier/id92/pg1 (1502 words)

	Jewhoo! - Interviews
		In his heyday, Abbie dropped dollar bills onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (practically bringing trading to a standstill), he recruited a group of witches to levitate the Pentagon, and he plotted to spike the punchbowl at a White House lawn party with LSD.
		Abbie Hoffman would have kept the ball rolling if not for a 1973 cocaine bust.
		Florence Hoffman was nice enough to have me, but not confident enough to think that she had anything to say.
	www.jewhoo.com /editor/interviews/abbiehoffman (1311 words)

	[08-16-96] Jonah Raskin, Remembering Abbie Hoffman -- A Yippie Script for Chicago '96
		Abbie Hoffman -- one-time leader of the Yippies and perhaps the last genuine American radical of the 20th century -- died by his own hand in April 1989, but not before he had left his imprint on a generation of protesters.
		Hoffman's zany "Festival of Life" offered something for almost everyone -- sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, lots of street theater and a little bit of revolution just for the hell of it.
		If Abbie were alive today he'd also be running for office, probably on the local level, and undoubtedly as a Democrat.
	www.pacificnews.org /jinn/stories/2.17/960816-abbie.html (835 words)

	The Biography Channel - Abbie Hoffman Biography
		A countercultural icon of the 1960âs, Abbie Hoffmanâs mischievous humour in pursuit of his cause made him a celebrated rogue.
		Hoffman named his followers The Yippies (the Youth International Party) and held the Festival of Life in 1968 to disrupt the Democratic National Convention.
		Hoffman was one of the first to establish a crafts store in New York selling the products of poor co-ops in Mississippi.
	thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/758:1036/Abbie_Hoffman.htm (362 words)

	The Party - Abbie Hoffman.
		Abbie Hoffman was a 60's American hero that fought for truth and justice against the evil forces that sought to end civil liberties in America.
		Abbie worked his magic by speaking to student groups, organizing, and clowning around in matters of national security.
		Abbie Hoffman committed suicide in 1989 (coincidentally the same year that George Bush took office as President).
	www.fortunecity.com /boozers/coachandhorses/1007/hoffman.html (556 words)

	ABBIE LIVES!
		What brought Abbie's name into households throughout the country and the world however, was his fusing of the then-burgeoning, pot smoking/free-loving/rock & rolling "hippie" counter-culture with the growing (but heretofore strictly 'straight') anti-Vietnam War movement of the day.
		A look at Abbie's educational roots is instructive: "At Brandeis University in the late 1950's, Abbie rejected the critique of the old left socialists, prominent on the faculty, who analyzed the country through a European framework of Marxist ideology," writes Jezer in Z Magazine.
		There was sometime between Abbie's going underground (after a set-up drug bust in 1973) and his re-emergence in 1980, a certain maturing of political vision.
	www.theroc.org /roc-mag/textarch/roc-09/roc0912c.htm (896 words)

	Gadfly Online.
		Abbie, Loony Bird of the Left, rapping, spritzing, cajoling, needling, joking, making a mockery of the somber baby aparatchiks who are scheming to change the world with their clever little manifestoes—and presto!—before their very eyes, turning this grim fl and white cinema verité documentary of theirs into his own wide-screen Technicolor burlesque show.
		Abbie continued to agitate, aggravate and generally stir things up until 1973 when he was busted in a cocaine deal that turned out to be an FBI set-up.
		Abbie entitled his autobiography Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture, but it was a joke—we’d already seen the movie with the main character as star and hero of the age.
	www.gadflyonline.com /best_of_2001/MONDAY-ISSUES/abbie-hoffman.html (2483 words)

	Mass Moments: Abbie Hoffman Dies
		Abbie's grandfather was a Russian-born Jew who moved to Worcester about 1910 and, in classic immigrant fashion, set himself up as a street peddler.
		The Hoffman family was upwardly mobile, middle class, and respectable — except for Abbie, the eldest of three children.
		Hoffman was a genius at using the media to draw attention to himself and his causes.
	www.massmoments.org /moment.cfm?mid=111 (1197 words)

	Steal This Book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It includes advice on such topics as growing marijuana, how to start a pirate radio station, live in a commune, steal food, steal credit cards, prepare a legal defense, make pipe bombs, and obtain a free buffalo from the US Department of the Interior.
		A footnote explains that Hoffman's book has nothing to do with Dungeons and Dragons, but that they hijacked the title anyway.
		In episode 205 "That was Then this is Dumb" of the animated television show Daria, Jake Morgandorffer talks to himself in a mirror, saying "Once you could fit all your worldly possessions into a backpack.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steal_This_Book (378 words)

	As I Please -- Forgetting Abbie Hoffman: May 5, 1970
		On that day, May 5, 1970, Hoffman was officially a felon, recently convicted of conspiring crowds to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
		Abbie Hoffman was later busted for possessing cocaine, served a little jail time and eventually killed himself.
		Abbie Hoffman was so close he was spitting on me. Later we tried to levitate T-Hall.
	www.seacoastnh.com /arts/please042200.html (1460 words)

	Political Film Society - Steal This Movie!
		Early in the film, Abbie (played by Vincent D’Onofrio) is registering African Americans to vote in Mississippi in 1965, only to receive a punch in the face from a police officer of a small rural town.
		In 1968 Hoffman became one of the Chicago Seven, charged with incitement to riot in the streets outside the Democratic National Convention after repeatedly being denied a permit to demonstrate peacefully in a nearby public park.
		In Abbie’s own words in the film, the movements he supported so dramatically eventually produced a powerful civil rights movement, a pullout from Vietnam, the sexual revolution (and the gay rights movement), and the environmental movement.
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/stealmovie.html (705 words)

	Abbiestock.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Abbie Hoffman announced that he and his associates planned to levitate the Pentagon to great heights.
		Abbie just got an inch or two because he was just a prankster.
		If Spiro got word the FBI was circulating a porn tale that featured his daughter and Abbie Hoffman, it was a sure thing that some Special Agent would be pounding a beat in the much dreaded Butte Montana.
	hometown.aol.com /stewa/abbiestock.html (1260 words)

	Vintage Vinyl:Steal This Book
		Before Hoffman died, he gave a copy of his book to co-conspirator Dr. Bill Hartel and instructed him to do with it what he wanted; with the rise of the internet, the book has now found its logical home.
		Abbie's former publisher, Random House, rejected the book, as did thirty other established publishers.
		Abbie tried unsuccessfully to place advertisements for the book in the media (with the lone exception of the San Francisco Chronicle).
	www.tenant.net /Community/steal/index.html (648 words)

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