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YIPPIE

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YIPPIEYouth International Party ('60s era, coined by Abbie Hoffman)


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Play, including (postmodern) irony and parody and a subversion of officialdom, becomes more evident the closer one gets to the present--though it started with yippie guerrilla performances, as well as with musical groups like the Mothers of Invention, the Fugs, and Country Joe & the Fish.
He's written more than 100 articles on medical marijuana and is currently writing books on both the Yippies and the MC 5/White Panthers.
And Abbie Hoffman's story of the Yippies exposes particularly the fierce bigotry and contempt for law by the police and courts at times of crisis.
 
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