VIDEO: Abbie Hoffman goes “Hollywood”

Enjoy this videos of Abbie taken from NYC public access in 1980.

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Abbie Hoffman interviewed by high school student during the Chicago 7 trial.

Field correspondant Tom LaPorte brings us a 23 minute interview he held with anarchist, guerrilla clown, and stand-up revolutionary Abbie Hoffman back in 1969 during the Chicago 7 Conspiracy Trials.

We split the interview into 5 pieces, give listen and then comment upon each section. Topics range from the binding of Bobby Seale, the trial of the press, the meaninglessness of reform, and the future of judicial law in America.

Almost 40 years after the interview, Hoffman’s words still buzz with relevance and hum with an electrical current vital to today’s political climate.

Who will be the conduit for these words tomorrow?

Time: 60 min, Size: 55 MB
Date Uploaded: January 19th, 2007

Download the mp3: here.

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Field correspondant Tom LaPorte brings us a 23 minute interview he held with anarchist, guerrilla clown, and stand-up revolutionary Abbie Hoffman back in 1969 during the Chicago 7 Conspiracy Trials.

We split the interview into 5 pieces, give listen and then comment upon each section. Topics range from the binding of Bobby Seale, the trial of the press, the meaninglessness of reform, and the future of judicial law in America.

Almost 40 years after the interview, Hoffman’s words still buzz with relevance and hum with an electrical current vital to today’s political climate.

Who will be the conduit for these words tomorrow?

Time: 60 min, Size: 55 MB
Date Uploaded: January 19th, 2007

Download the MP3: here.

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Abbie Hoffman: AbbieVision!

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Abbie Hoffman: “I know we won!”

Multiple computer outages at the Wabush Bridge Mixed Media Collective and a general loss of interest due to this beautiful weather has resulted in a lack of updates as of late. Until we get the 2007 Kent State footage parsed, please enjoy the following conversation with one of our founding members, Abbie Hoffman.

Everything you did seems to have been inspired by a spirit of fun and a sense of humor.

And a sense of communicating ideas through the mass media by manipulating famous symbols. We were doing it, actually, before this theory had come around. It was instinctive. I’ll tell you one of the more famous ones. On Valentine’s Day in ’67, we mailed 3,000 joints of marijuana to people all over New York, picked out of the phone book, with a letter explaining, you’ve read a lot about it, now if you want to try it, here it is. But, P.S., by the way, just holding this can get you five years in prison. We sent it to some in the media. Bill Jorgensen, the local news anchorman, almost got arrested on the air for showing it on TV. The cops came right on the set and it was quite hysterical. Half the people on the Lower East Side knew who did it!

And you had no problems with the cops, they never traced it to you?

No, no. To come up with the list we’d get stoned, yellow pages and stoned, that’s it. There were different rolling teams and all that. Jimi Hendrix gave me the money for it. Ultimately it changed the laws in this state, got the penalties reduced. We used to have a lot of campaigns against pay toilets. We’d go up there, photograph people sneaking in underneath, and put pictures in the underground newspapers with captions: how to get into a pay toilet. So we’d show people who would sneak in under, or taping the lock shut. All these were in Fuck the System, later in Steal This Book, etc. in that spirit. But the Stock Exchange probably was one of the best of these kinds of acts.

[You can read the whole interview here.]

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