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TitlePrivledge
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Date 18/28/1968
Date 2n.d., ca.
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MediumBroadside
DimensionLegal
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CatalogDR-003
CollectionSOLA-o
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DR-003
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Notes
The benefit for the Free Clinic was scheduled to happen the weekend of August 30, 1968. It was apparently a disaster due in large part to neighbors of the Palace of Fine Arts and the SF Recreation and Parks Department. See "Haight Clinic Dies," Berkeley Barb, Sept. 13, 1968, p. 7. Possible author of this piece: Arthur Lisch of the Diggers who was notoriously confrontational. See "Free Moe Free Arthur Free" by Marvin Garson, San Francisco Express Times, July 31, 1968, p. 12.
Abstract
This Digger sheet attacks the benefit for the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic at the Palace of Fine Arts as a “huge fascist rock money trip,” turning the idea of charity back against the liberal machinery of foundations, bureaucrats, celebrities, and managed dissent. Beginning with Peter Watkins’s film Privilege, the piece reads the benefit as a similar spectacle of social control: rebellious youth culture repackaged as a harmless public ritual under the supervision of the very institutions it should be resisting. The sheet is especially important for the Digger critique of “free clinics” that dealt only with symptoms rather than causes. A truly free clinic, the writer insists, would have to be part of a larger transformation: free food, free shelter, twenty-four-hour areas free of tension and paranoia, and a social atmosphere where people could “go” rather than be processed. The final call—“Free the Palace”—is not simply a protest against one benefit but a demand to break out of the “dead forms” of institutional benevolence and return Free to the street.
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PRIVILEDGE

There is a flic by an english dude named Peter Watkins about a projected ultra-liberal thought control takeover by the church-state using a penultimately popular smack tripping rock star youth-leader who sang about wanting to be free. The cat was manipulated by the liberal “do-good” control dudes into a huge facist scale (like Hitler’s ralleys) stadium where amid light-sound trips the rock star sang his latest song: CONFORM, FOR NOW! or all hell will break loose and none of us can offord that. Twirlers, cheer leaders, banners lights, stages, leaders - ULTRA LIBERAL PSEUDO HIP THOUGHT POLICE.

INCREDIBLE

DIG. It’s happening; now at the Palace of “Fine Arts”; San Francisco’s communal perversion cup, to benefit the so-called Free ... Haight Ashbury Medical Clinic.

DIG FURTHER: David Smith’s trip grew out of last years free digger medical shot at the Free Frame of Reference—Trip Without a Ticket. Smith was interested and in meetings with Smith diggers suggested that his proposed free clinic be away from the four block Haight syndrome so people would move around the city and break out of what was rapidly becoming a teen-age skid row. Diggers suggested a San Francisco Free Clinic (as opposed to a Haight Ashbury Free Clinic) in Fillmore, Potrero or Mission. This would have (and will) set a model for Free Community Clinics all over the city. Who wants to go to a hippie clinic??

He insisted on Haight, became the hippie doctor, which brought identity, fame and research grants to “STUDY THE HIPPIES” i.e feed information into the Great White Computer in Washington to keep them under control.

Diggers further suggested that free clinics concern themselves, in contradistinction to the city free clinics, with causes rather than symptoms (it is said by some hip pathologists that cancer is cellular paranoia.). The clinic now deals with symptoms. Cure has to do with honest to GOD MEDICINE MAN and not ego-tripping ambitious medical technologists. The H.A. trip has drained off resources and energies that could have gone into more magical medical cures.

A free clinic has to do with growing and distributing basic nourishing food. It has to do with establishing 24 hour a day 7 days a week areas free of tension and paranoia kamakazie kids, winos, crazy folk, mad men and women can be free to be whatever; an atmosphere that says at as many levels as possible WELCOME HOME: Home, family, nourishing food cures..

BROTHERS AND SISTERS, BREAK OUT OF THE DEAD FORMS. REVOLUTION IS LETTING GO, IS MANIFESTING YOUR INNER BEAUTY, IS ORGASM, IS FREE.

POLITICAL CONVENTIONS, HUGE FACIST ROCK MONEY TRIPS, PHONEY ORGANIZED HUBRIS CHURCH TRIPS, CITY HALL ZOMBIE BUREAUCRATS KILL THE FREE HUMAN SPIRIT.

BREAK OUT NOW, WE ARE ALMOST INTO A BRAIN CONTROL TECHNOLOGICAL TYRANNY. STAND AS MEN AND WOMEN AND DO, WITH ME, WHAT MUST BE DONE.

FREE THE PALACE. JOIN YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS OUTSIDE THE PALACE AND CELEBRATE THE REVOLUTION.

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