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TitleHippie-here is your answer from City Government:
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Date 16/1/1967
Date 2n.d., ca.
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CatalogDP-008a
CollectionSOLA-o
Cit. No.
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GroupDigger Movement (Core Collection)
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DP-008a
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The text on this side of the broadsheet answers the official and media response to the Haight with a fierce Digger refusal of bureaucracy, censorship, and imposed categories. City Government invites “talk-talk-talk” while the Park Department demands identity cards, the Building Department condemns houses used as free space, and the Health Department turns free food into a violation; meanwhile radio, television, magazines, and newspapers censor language, editorialize images, and try to freeze the hippie free-spirit into the familiar categories of leadership, structure, control, and efficiency. What the Diggers insist on instead is the creation of “Free Forms,” the coming together of free families in open beach, street, and park spaces where people can gather and do their thing Free. The warning is clear: if that fusion is suppressed by harassment and arrest, the energy of coming together will be broken into chaos, violence, and fragmentation.
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Hippie — here is your answer from City Government:
(and they are our brothers and sisters)

For the last six months , or has it been six thousand years the city government has invited us to talk- talk talk- talk while they have thrown this sick shit on us. The Park Department demanding identity cards and viciously busting people for panhandling, breaking away from their parents, taking de-conditioning drugs, etc. The Building Department condemning houses used as free space for hundreds of people. (Their rationale being that if there are any more than five people living in a house it is no longer a home but a hotel, and a license is needed-also that it might cause outbreaks of Bubonic plague.) The Health Department enforcing restaurant and public assembly laws in places where free food is given.

Well city government, we're tired of your whimpering, controlled voices. ("I'm an ordinary man with an ordinary job," "I'm just obeying orders," "It's not only my job," "It's not my decision," "I'm not the one to interpret the law — I don't like being here and I want to end this as quickly as possible.") We can't and don't want to pound ourselves into your impersonal bureaucratic categories. We have found that you have no eyes no ears, no features, no feelings — that you are completely anonymous and unflowing. We don't want to live in your static, dead world, so we are creating a sub-culture of Free Forms.

The free families are coming together now to create these forms, and they need the open beach street and park spaces to come together. The city has to close the street and the hippies have to get together and get free space so that they can do their thing Free. If fusion is suppressed by harassment and arrest and other established sicknesses, the energy for uniting of the families will be fragmented into chaos and violence.

+Hippie here is your answer from radio and tv:

CENSORED vocalization (can you imagine that you can't say FUCK? If you say that little sound, the sick ones press a little button to make sure that it doesn't go through the delicate communication lines.)

EDITORALIZED film clips that spread prejudice and death, not understanding! or awareness! Programming, tasteless middle-aged minds (witness Michael McClure's half-hour television program. He was told that he would be the sole narrator of a documentary on H-A, uninterrupted by commercials. It came on at ten-thirty with commercials and with a second narrator who imposed such words as "CRIMINAL" "DEGENERATE" and emphasized merchandise objects rather than the spirit and true values of the people) can you imagine where these people are at?

+Hippie-here is your answer from magazines and newspapers:
from LIFE, TIME, RAMPARTS, LOOK, NEWSPEAK
reporters that filter and try to freeze the Hippie free-spirit into the sick concepts of leadership, structure, control, efficiency, etc. (where are these people at? hee hee)

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