What It Means To Be A Hippie
I am obviously not going to post up the complete history of the hippie, because frankly it would take to long. What I can do is start it off and then point you in the right direction. Some time in the 60's a large group of non-conformist kids decided to fight for themselves. Some say the uprising was due to the spread of LSD--Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, Dr. Timothy Leary--or due to the psychedelic rock--Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane--or even the corrupt politics--LBJ and Tricky Dick. Whatever the spark was, it lead to the greatest revolution of all time, in which kids of all shapes, sizes, and colors came together as one to fight for common beliefs. They held marches, sit-ins, be-ins, festivals, and concerts--all of which were peaceful until the pigs stepped onto the scene....
The 1964 Free Speech Movement at Berkeley:
Berkeley administrators had taken away the right for students to hold protests against the government and had taken away the Berkeley newspaper. Students believed it to be in violation of their first amendment. Thousands of students gathered and spoke. When students were taken into police cars to be arrested, hundreds would gather around the car and sit down, so the student could not be taken away. It was atop one of these police cars that Mario Savio made his famous speech.
"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop."
