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In the first article i read it was title "The Hippie Movement". The basis of it was just explaining the meaning of free spirit, and just what hippies live by. Music is a huge party of what they love and believe in. Something new to me in this article were something called "Yippies." They were a parody of a political party. It started when 61 people were protesting at Grand Central Station. They were lead my Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. At a war protest at the Pentagon they were actually trying to levitate it. haha weird i know... They were going to protest the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and nominate their own candidate. The candidate name was Lyndon Pigasus Pig. HE was an actual pig. The day the pig was nominated Rubin and six others were arrested. This article really just shows how anti establishment they really were. It was a bit ridiculous,but i guess they got there point across.

When writing my paper i feel like the "yippies" will play a pretty big role in the early years of my culture. With the start of their own political party, and nominating a pig to run just shows how anit-government they were and still are. I will write bout how they got stated and what impact they had on the movement.

Wikipedia.org.2007.16 February 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_hippie_movement#Yippies



The next one i read was from the same page, but this one was over "Neo-Hippies." Neo-Hippies are sons and daughters and grandchildren of original hippies. It says that drugs are still apart of it, but Neos don't make it an everyday event. they resort to much safer methods such as drumming circles, community singing, meditation, yoga and dance. They often refer to themselves as "rainbows" sports tie dye clothes. A big part of their lifestyle is their moto which is Peace, love, harmony, freedom, and community. I feel like this is were many of the people i have interviewed fall into this category.

With the neo-hippies, i feel that this is a HUGE part of my research and paper. Anything you see to do with this culture now a days most have neo-hippies running them. the younger generation also has a lot of the same traits and what not, and i will be pointing them out in my paper. This will be a huge part of my research.


Wikipedia.org.2007.16 February 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_hippie_movement#Neo-hippies