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r objective is to get elected). The Occupiers appear to be a leaderless community—most likely, you can’ t name a single one; not yet, anyway—whereas Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and | served as spokespeople for the Yippies. We had media contacts and knew how to speak in sound bytes. If we gave good quote, HOUSE
s. “Good-bye, Mama, I'm off to Yokohama, the Land of Yama-Yama...” Back at the Café Au Go Go arrest in New York, Lenny had told a fantasy tale about Eleanor Roosevelt, quoting her, “I've got the nicest tits that have ever been in this White House...” The top of the police complaint was “Eleanor Roosevelt and her di
isapplied to him. Despite opposition by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, the amendment was finally signed into law by then-Governor Roosevelt, but to no avail. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015367 “Ignoring the mandate of Franklin D. Roosevelt,” Lenny observed, “‘is a great deal more offensive than say
t dissidents and in fact supported Soviet repression of “fascist opponents of socialist democracy,” i.e., dissidents and Refusenicks. Another client, Abby Hoffman, also turned against me. I was part of the legal team in the Chicago Seven case that grew out of demonstrations during the Democratic National Conven
much of my life to trying to turn theory into reality on an international scale. I was brought up in the golden age of human rights. Our heroes were Eleanor Roosevelt, Rene Casin and Albert Schweitzer. Our great hope was the United Nations with its Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Our mantra was FDR’s “Four F
which was then fighting the New Deal, excluding black lawyers from membership, and opposing the labor movement. The original guild was an amalgam of Roosevelt liberals, CIO labor leaders, black civil rights lawyers, and radicals of assorted affiliations and persuasions. It strongly supported Israel’s strugg
expressions and actions cataloged above to the very different act of shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theater is either self-deceptive or self-serving. Abbie Hoffman, on whose Chicago conspiracy case I worked, once described an occasion when he was standing near a fire with a crowd of people and got in trouble for
joke of the time, we knew would occur on a Jewish holiday—because whatever day he died would be a Jewish holiday! A few weeks earlier, we cried over Roosevelt’s passing, which I heard of while listening to the radio and broke the news to my grandmother Ringel, who was taking care of me. She refused to belie
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liest remembrance of a Presi- dent was Franklin D Roosevelt. EP: Do you remember him on the radio? PK: Yes.
ked about the fascism. He talked about the dangers. It was just brilliant presentation of the seriousness of fascism in action. EP: What do you think Abbie Hoffman would do about Trump? PK: Oh, I think he would do the same thing as Maher. Abbie really had a sense of humor that was spontaneous. And it was based
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