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Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, Wavy Gravy, Bob Rudnick, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is widely regarded as the foremost scientist in the field of consciousness, and is considered the greatest teacher in the world today.
Over forty years ago his infinite love drew him out of isolation in the the Himalayas to relieve the world from suffering–to create Heaven on Earth. Having learned from his guru a long-lost knowledge, he has completely revived the practical, ancient science that is capable of creating Perfect Health and Enlightenment for any individual and a society of Happiness and Peace - Heaven on Earth. He was the Guru of the Beatles and other celebrity's during the 60s and 70s.
The nature of life is unbounded
invincible bliss consciousness.
There is no need for
any individual to suffer
or for any nation to face problems."
Maharishi

'Vietnam Years 1969' © Gilbert Weingourt 2004

~The Yippie Movement and Activists~

"Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, Bob Rudnick, Wavy Gravy (Woodstock 69), Aaron Kay 'Pieman" and Stew Albert, were important activist's in their own ways concerning the 60s. I know that there were other important figures in the Yippee movement. However I was more familiar with this group as I knew most of them personally. ."

-Gilbert Weingourt-Fall 2004-

Jerry Rubin

Rubin organized the VDC (Vietnam Day Committee), led some of the first protests against the war in Vietnam, and was a cofounder of the Yippies (Youth International Party) with Abbie Hoffman, and Pigasus, the pig who would be President. He was an instrumental part in the disruption of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He, along with six others (Abbie Hoffman, Rennie Davis, John Froines, David Dellinger, Lee Weiner, and Tom Hayden; Bobby Seale was part of the original group but was excluded later) was put on trial for conspiracy and crossing state lines with the intention of inciting a riot. Julius Hoffman was the presiding judge. The defendants were commonly referred to as the "Chicago Eight", or the "Chicago Seven" after Seale's exclusion. The defendants turned the courtroom into a circus and although five of the seven remaining defendants were found guilty of inciting a riot, the convictions were later overturned on appeal.
He and Abbie Hoffman, after founding the Youth International Party (Yippies), organized many dramatic demonstrations, including the "exorcism of the Pentagon" in which he, Hoffman, and others tried to levitate the Pentagon with mental force.   As a Yippie he organized the disastrous protests at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968.  He was as dramatic in the courtroom as any of the "Chicago Seven", and he even brought a toy M-16 rifle to the proceedings. He played a role in nominating a pig named "Pigasus" for President in 1968.

Abbie Hoffman

A countercultural icon of the 1960's, Abbie Hoffman was successful at turning many flower children into political activists. Hoffman was born into a Jewish family in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1936, and became active in the civil rights movement after graduating from Brandeis University. He was arrested in Mississippi during Freedom Summer, and two years later founded a crafts store in New York City, Liberty House, that sold the products of poor people's coops in Mississippi.
He was best known for his rejection and parody of American corporate culture. In 1967, Hoffman and several friends threw dollar bills from the visitors' gallery onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, resulting in a near-riot as traders scrambled for the cash. During a major anti-war demonstration, he organized an "Exorcism of the Pentagon", in which he led over 50,000 people to surround the Pentagon in an effort to levitate the building by their combined psychic energy. He, along with Jerry Rubin and other activities, became "Yippies", and formed the Youth International Party. The Yippies held a Festival of Life at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, which led to violence and arrests; these, in turn, led to the famous Chicago Seven trial (which started off as the Chicago Eight trial, but was reduced to Seven when Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers was bound, gagged, and sent to prison for contempt of court). For the next several years, Hoffman was a full-time activist until 1973, when he was arrested for the sale of cocaine. Facing a mandatory life sentence, he went underground and disappeared for 6 years, during which time he had plastic surgery, nervous breakdowns, and was an environmental activist under an alias. After emerging from hiding in 1980, he served a brief prison sentence and then re-entered the world of activism. He continued to organize people on college campuses and elsewhere, especially about environmental issues, until his death by suicide in 1989.

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Hugh Romney-Wavy Gravy

Like Wavy said, he's not Web savvy. "I refer to myself as an activist, clown, frozen dessert and temple of accumulative error," he said.

Wavy served as chief of the Please Force at the Woodstock music festival, where the Hog Farm administered the free kitchen and bad-trip/freak-out tent. Wavy was captured in the movie "Woodstock" and propelled into the world press. He became the good-humored peacemaker and purveyor of life support at major rock festivals and political demonstrations of the sixties and seventies. He changed his name to Wavy Gravy at the Texas Pop Festival.

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Bob Rudnick

Bob Rudnick, the now immortal DJ. Righteous Rudnick introduced the Wilderness Road Show, and had a long history both in Chicago and Detroit (where he worked with John Sinclair and the MC5), as ringmaster, rogue, bon vivant, and jazz/blues/rock scholar. His incredibly mellow two pack a day, whiskey voice was featured on "progressive FM" stations across the country. He is said now to be working with Sun Ra, in Heaven, advancing the cause of the music he loved and served.

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