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  Jerry Rubin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jerry Rubin (July 14, 1938 – November 28, 1994) was a high-profile American social activist during the 1960s and 1970s.
Jerry's first protest was in Berkeley, protesting the refusal of a local grocer to hire African Americans.
Rubin organized the VDC (Vietnam Day Committee), led some of the first protests against the war in Vietnam, and was a cofounder of the Yippies (Youth International Party) with Abbie Hoffman, and Pigasus, the pig who would be president.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jerry_Rubin   (499 words)

  
 Santa Monica Mirror: Jerry Rubin Goes Hollywood
The Rubin Method, which she wrote and directed, depicts the trials, tribulations and accomplishments of Rubin, a longtime fixture on the Third Street Promenade and City Council candidate in the fall election.
Rubin, who turned 60 in December, legally changed his name to Jerry Peace Activist Rubin earlier this year and is at pains to explain that he is not related to the late ‘60s activist Jerry Rubin.
Rubin moved to Venice on July 4, 1967.
www.smmirror.com /volume6/issue5/jerry_rubin_goes.asp   (519 words)

  
 Santa Monica Mirror: A Night At Jerry Rubin’s Table
Jerry is most likely the only political candidate left in Santa Monica whose main goal is "to plant seeds of peace in people." Being a hippie child of the 60’s I thought I knew all about the peace symbol, but Jerry taught me the real meaning behind it.
Jerry is interested in everyone’s ideas and opinions, and treats youngsters and elderly veterans with the same respect.
Jerry has no complaints about the police who have done their job and given him tickets, only the law that dictates he should pack up his table and move every two hours.
www.smmirror.com /volume2/issue20/in_her_opinion.html   (795 words)

  
 Jerry Rubin - Wikipedia
Später bekam er den Abschluss in Sociology an der University of Cincinnati.
Jerry wollte Gil die Welt zeigen, und entschied sich, ihn nach Indien mitzunehmen.
Nachdem der Vietnam-Krieg endete, wechselte Rubin seine politischen Ansichten und wurde ein Unternehmer und Geschäftsmann.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jerry_Rubin   (487 words)

  
 Jerry Rubin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jerry Rubin (July 4, 1938 - November 28, 1994) was a high-profile social activist during the 1960s and 1970s.
Rubin grew up in the, then upscale, Avondale neighborhood of Cincinnati.
Rubin then decided to attend Berkeley in 1964 but dropped out to focus on social activism Jerry's first protest was in Berkeley, protesting the refusal of a local grocer to hire African Americans.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /Jerry_Rubin   (480 words)

  
 JerryPage.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Jerry was subpoenaed by the then much feared HUAC (House Committee on Un-American Activities) and responded by renting an American Revolutionary War uniform and wearing it to the Committee's meeting.
Jerry and Abbie responded by wearing judicial robes to court and calling Hoffman a Nazi.
Jerry and most of the others were convicted and this verdict put the American legal system on trial.
members.aol.com /stewa/jerrypage.htm   (1361 words)

  
 Who is Jerry Rubin?
Jerry Rubin was born July 14th, 1938 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Rubin enrolled at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem as a student of sociology.
Rubin and others attempted "psychic terrorism" and "an exorcism of the Pentagon", claiming that they could levitate the Pentagon with the powers of their minds.
id.essortment.com /jerryrubinwho_rkoj.htm   (1976 words)

  
 Drawing the Line with Clients
Jerry Rubin was the radical co-founder of the Youth International Party (Yippies) and a major producer of that infamous decade's counter-cultural mayhem.
Jerry was looking for someone to ghostwrite a book -- a book that would serve as his personal calling card and hopefully induce thousands of people to join his latest multi-level marketing scheme.
When are you going to get me something to look at?" Jerry was a bundle of energy, and his focus was as sharp as a laser; unfortunately, I was the subject of Jerry's focus, and he was starting to burn a hole though my ever-thinning patience.
www.1099.com /c/co/dw/pe/economy010.html   (1128 words)

  
 Jerry Rubin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Jerry Rubin, the son of a Cincinnati truck driver and Teamsters official, was the radical co-founder of the Youth International Party.
Prior to his attempt to merge political and lifestyle liberation under the Yippie banner, Rubin had edited a youth page for the Cincinnati Post, studied sociology in Israel, joined the Free Speech Movement and ran for mayor in Berkeley, and led a march on the Pentagon.
Jerry Rubin died in November 1994 after being hit by a car while jaywalking on L.A.'s Wilshire Blvd.
www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/RubinJ.htm   (185 words)

  
 Currents (April 27 - May 3, 1995)
Jerry thought it was for him, and waved amiably to the crowd.
Rubin's Tempe hosts and I greeted his flight at Sky Harbor Airport; he was almost impossible to find among all the burly, DPS plainclothesmen who surrounded him.
Rubin continued his role as a "Yippie leader," a contradiction if ever there were one, and his federal conspiracy conviction was eventually overturned.
www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/04-27-95/curr1.htm   (2125 words)

  
 firstamendmentcenter.org: news
Earlier this month turned away an appeal by former city council candidate Jerry Rubin, who was challenging a California city's refusal to print "peace activist" as his occupation on the ballot.
Jerry Rubin, a former Santa Monica City Council candidate, had his appeal turned away earlier this month by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Rubin has been listed in the local telephone book for years as Jerry Peace Activist Rubin to avoid confusion with the deceased "Chicago Seven" defendant Jerry Rubin, who lived in the same area.
www.firstamendmentcenter.org /news.aspx?id=12096&printer-friendly=y   (1064 words)

  
 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Jerry Rubin
Pigasus was a pig which the Yippies, led by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, ran as their satiric candidate for President of the United States during the massive protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Police and protesters at the Convention The 1968 Democratic National Convention was held in Chicago, Illinois from August 26-29, 1968, by the United States Democratic Party, for the purposes of choosing the Democratic nominee for the 1968 U.S. Presidential Election.
Jerry Rubin (July 4, 1938 – November 28, 1994) was a high-profile Jewish-American social activist during the 1960s and 1970s.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jerry-Rubin   (1620 words)

  
 Pulliam
Jerry Rubin's 1987 film The Stepfather is probably one of the best slasher films you've never heard of (and you'll have a hard time finding it as well, since no one has seen fit to reissue it on DVD, and VHS copies of the film are fast disappearing).
Jerry Blake, the stepfather, marries into existing families where the wife is a fairly traditional woman who is newly widowed.
Jerry doesn't feel that it is possible to have a family without children, but as any parent can tell you, raising kids is hard work, even under the best of circumstances.
www.lsu.edu /necrofile/stepfather10   (1287 words)

  
 Texas Medical Informatics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Jerry Rubin, Director of the Animal Internal Medicine Clinic of Dallas, Texas, became the editor-in-chief for the knowledge bases that drove the Canine and Feline DOS versions of Associate in 1989.
Rubin brought over 50 years of veterinary experience into the Associate system to include 21 years in general practice, 11 years as a Professor of Internal Medicine, and 19 years in a specialty practice.
In the mid-nineties, Dr. Rubin decided to convert his electronic references into a loose-leaf textbook that could be easily updated periodically in a 3-ring binder.
www.texmedinfo.com /InMemory.htm   (245 words)

  
 rubin050499
The son of a bakery truck driver and union organizer, Rubin was born in Cincinnati in 1938 and grew up in Avondale.
Rubin and his co-defendants were cited for contempt nearly 200 times, capitalizing on the media spotlight to ridicule the proceedings.
Five of the seven, including Rubin, were acquitted of conspiracy but found guilty of intent to riot and sentenced to prison; the convictions were overturned on appeal.
www.cincypost.com /living/1999/rubin050499.html   (976 words)

  
 ”Denna vänstern föddes ur Elvis roterande bäcken” — Jerry Rubin på svenska
Rubin hade då haft FBI efter sig sedan 1967 då han var en av organisatörerna bakom marschen mot Pentagon i protest mot Vietnamkriget.
Jerry Rubin inställde sig under förhören i Kommittén för oamerikansk verksamhet som soldat från frihetskriget, gerillasoldat och jultomten.
Rubins och Hoffmans Yippierörelse blev bryggan mellan de intellektuella i universitetsmiljön, vars subversiva politiska linje fick namnet Den nya vänstern, och en allt mer apolitisk hippie- och beatnikrörelse.
www.truls.org /Blomigt/doit.html   (402 words)

  
 Jerry rubin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/jerry_rubin   (146 words)

  
 CNN - Jerry Rubin still passionate about nuclear disarmament - June 20, 1998
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Jerry Rubin's life has been shaped by his conviction that nuclear weapons are too dangerous, and must be abolished.
In fact, Rubin felt so passionate about the issue that, at one point, he smashed a pie in the face of nuclear bomb pioneer Edward Teller.
Rubin is clearly worried about the nuclear testing by India and Pakistan, which has prompted international protests and condemnations.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/asiapcf/9806/20/nuke.protest   (483 words)

  
 portland imc - 2006.01.22 - Spies Bragging About Their Infiltration
Jerry Rubin was involved with the yippie side of the Chicago Democratic Convention protests of 1968, which is how Bob got assigned to Rubin.
Jerry recalls the police asking him, "How many people do you know?" Jerry replied, "124." And the cop said, "It shoulda been 123." Jerry then recalls cops pouring into the room to watch, he says about 30 were in the room watching.
Rubin was acquitted of all conspiracy charges in the Chicago Seven trial, and later got clipped (fatally) crossing Santa Monica Blvd after he became an investment banker.
portland.indymedia.org /en/2006/01/332383.shtml   (1513 words)

  
 The Other Jerry Rubin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Perhaps the most worthy example of the Rubin confusion is the e-mail I recently received from a representative of the Jewish Big Brothers.
If our Jerrys are one in the same, I'm sure it would be more than uncomfortable for the person answering his telephone.
And if our Jerrys turn out to be one in the same, we will have the knowledge that one of his last acts on earth was to find out how he could help a child in need by becoming a Jewish Big Brother.
hometown.aol.com /stewa/otherjerry.html   (494 words)

  
 Chicago Seven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Jerry Rubin’s activism began in the mid 1960’s.
At the beginning of 1968 Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman co-founded the Youth International Party with a main goal to organize a freak-out at the 1968 Chicago Democratic convention.
During the trial Rubin was known to give Judge Hoffman Hitler salutes and scream “fascist” and “tyrant”.
t3.preservice.org /T0300184/d2.html   (383 words)

  
 Times Community Newspapers - Age discrimination suit hits Leesburg car dealer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Leesburg attorney Annette Kay Rubin, who represents 56-year-old Alton Ray Loveless in the suit, said her client got everything he hoped for from the jury, including $250,000 in back pay and a finding that the discrimination was willful.
Cohen, vice president and general manager of Jerry's Automotive Group and son of owner Jerry Cohen, said he was shocked and disappointed by the jury's June 2 verdict and intends to appeal the decision.
Although the jury has already rendered its decision in the Loveless case, Rubin said she is still awaiting a decision from the judge on awards of attorney fees, front pay and a possible doubling of the back pay award because the jury found that the discrimination was willful.
www.timescommunity.com /site/tab1.cfm?newsid=14695865&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506035&rfi=6   (535 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Rubin gets new name OK'd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Longtime peace activist Jerry Rubin belatedly celebrated his 60th birthday by registering to vote with his new name: Jerry Peace Activist Rubin.
Superior Court Judge Alan Haber on Thursday granted Rubin's request to legally change his name to the monicker which has long appeared in the telephone directory to avoid confusion with the late "Chicago Seven" defendant Jerry Rubin who lived in the same area.
Rubin conceded the name change won't have a dramatic day-to-day impact.
www.usatoday.com /news/offbeat/2003-12-19-rubin_x.htm   (320 words)

  
 Country Joe McDonald, Chicago Seven Trial
Jerry Rubin said it was going to be held in the park.
Jerry Rubin, Ed Sanders, Nancy, my wife Robin was there, at Jerry Rubin's apartment in the East Village in New York.
Jerry Rubin then asked me if I had any ideas about other types of people that we could have come to the convention.
www.countryjoe.com /chicago.htm   (2728 words)

  
 Jerry Rubin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Rubin organized the VDC (Vietnam Day Committee) some of the first protests against the in Vietnam and was a cofounder of Yippies (Youth International Party) with Abbie Hoffman and Pigasus the pig who would President.
The defendants turned courtroom into a circus and although five the seven remaining defendants were found guilty inciting a riot the convictions were later on appeal.
In the closing years of the truly radical days of hippiedom, Jerry Rubin (of the Youth International Party, or "Yippie!") wrote a part-manifesto, part-screed; almost a sequal to his (in)famous work, "Do It!".
www.freeglossary.com /Jerry_Rubin   (508 words)

  
 Jerry Rubin and the Media   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Rubin made a point by showing up at the House Un-American Activities Committee dressed as Paul Revere, Uncle Sam, Santa Claus, and a Viet Cong (carrying a toy M-16 rifle).
Rubin was described as "the P.T. Barnum of the Revolution," and took to mocking even his own celebrity.
They carefully crafted zany media images, but found later in life that it was impossible to escape the media spotlight once you aimed it at yourself.
interact.uoregon.edu /mediaLit/JCP/articles_mlr/walsh/jerryrubin.html   (557 words)

  
 Law.com
Jerry Rubin, peace activist -- no, not that Jerry Rubin, peace activist -- will have to find some other way to describe himself the next time he wants to run for City Council.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled that Rubin's chosen "occupation" merely described his "status," and that the city of Santa Monica, Calif., was within its rights when it refused the candidate's request to include it on city ballots.
City of Santa Monica, 02 C.D.O.S. Rubin is not the same Jerry Rubin that went on trial during the 1960s as part of the Chicago Seven.
www.law.com /jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1032128775872   (387 words)

  
 Are you a Yippie or a Yuppie?
It was strange to hear Jerry Rubin debating his former Chicago Seven codefendant, but Rubin has "joined America rather than fighting against it," exhorting young people to use their enterprise, earning power, and the institutions they're entering to affect change.
In order to be a part of the solution rather than part of the problem, Rubin suggested we have to work from within, and that negativity and cynicism are all that remain in the hearts of baked-over activists like Hoffman.
Next year's entering student was a newborn baby when Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman were in court in Chicago, the same year Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
www-tech.mit.edu /V105/N3/pugwas.03o.html   (819 words)

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