yippie

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I asked him if he had seen the radical troublemaker and Yippie organizer Abbie Hoffman.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2022

Instead, there appeared a cheeky, on-the-fly production of anarchic whimsy — I described it as “Monty Python” meets a Yippie convention.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2022

“Every individual has a little Yippie and yuppie within,” Mr. Krassner told the Tribune on the 20th anniversary of the convention protests, still yearning for a social transformation that never quite came to pass.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2019

He should remember what an earlier cultural provocateur, the Yippie leader Jerry Rubin, said: “Satisfy our demands, and we’ve got twelve more. The more demands you satisfy, the more we’ve got.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 8, 2016

This newsletter was dedicated to collating and spreading Yippie rip-off techniques, especially of phones, to the joy of the freewheeling underground and the insensate rage of all straight people.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce