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TitleAnd now you see I.B.M. secretaries ...
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Date 16/1/1967
Date 2n.d., ca.
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CatalogDP-008b
CollectionSOLA-o
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GroupDigger Movement (Core Collection)
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DP-008b
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Abstract
The reverse side turns from government and media repression to the commercialization of the Haight, where “authentic” hippie bells, beads, dresses, music, dances, and drugs are all being turned into merchandise. The sheet mocks the new “machine-psychedelic” style and follows the money through stores, rock bands, dance promoters, and drug dealers, asking each of them the same blunt question: what are you going to do with the money? This is not simply an attack on commerce, but on the way the market misrepresents the hippie vision and sells it back to tourists and newcomers still “chained to the system.” The Digger answer is exact and practical: if money is being made from the scene, then use it to buy land from the Establishment and set it free, creating the free space that the people most needed.
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And now you see I.B.M. secretaries with bells around their necks, wearing machine-psychedelic dresses
(CAN YOU IMAGINE WHERE THEY'RE AT?)

Hippie - here is your answer from the merchants:

The store's business is better than ever — SELLING SELLING SELLING "authentic" Hippie belle and beads, misrepresenting our beliefs and fucking up our values —

FREENOW

SELLING to susceptible tourists to our new brothers and sisters who are still prisoners in the dungeon of the Establishment — still chained to the system that tries to buy and sell love and happiness — the confused system of frustrated, tangled minds —

[another character map made up of $$$ signs and the words: IT SELLS with interspersed lower case words throughout:]

deductions
bonds
economize
profits
proceeds
stocks
shares
expenses
etc.

(where in the Hell are they at?)

AND IT SELLS!!!!

Store merchants, what are you going to do with the money?

Rock bands merchants are travelling all over the United States, having radio, television, and newspaper interviews, and making more money than ever — WHOOPEE!!!

Rock bands, what are you going to do with the money?

Dance merchants, what are you going to do with the money?

Drug dealer merchants — you are facing the same problems as the dance merchants. Gangsters are buying their way into the rock dance and drug scene. Are you going to give us a way to distinguish between you and the gangsters and Establishment merchants?

AND WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH THE MONEY?

The Hippies have a lot of ideas — what we need most now most of all is space — FREE space. The only thing you merchants can do with money is buy land from the Establishment and set it free — buy land, and invite people to be free on it.

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