AMCULT 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Love Pageant Rally, Head Shop, Psychedelic Drug
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Lecture 16: the end of the beginning (1966) Beginning of 1966: people happy, smoked dope on the streets, head shop opened, freak freely, public acid test, pop-up free concerts optimism! May 1966: mime troupe outcast by the city (cut from funding, denied performance permit) Replaced by the diggers: revolutionary free agenda as a response to their artistic repression. White policeman shot black youth in haight national guard enforced curfew. Berkeley students for a democratic society: protests against curfew in solidarity. Merchants: preached non-confrontation, anti-activism, went along with the curfew. Diggers: disagreed with both do whatever you want to do! anarchists, self- sovereignty. Fuck-leader youth : anyone trying to control you is the man. Began to give away free food, free store the trip without a ticket, no ownership, basket with free money : nothing is actually free (things have to be produced, time, labor, $) With the diggers, no way to win: everything the hip community did, the diggers disliked.
