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Abbie Hoffman - Chicago

1968 Chicago Seven/Eight: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrumm... Abbie Hoffman, born 30 November 1936 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, died 12 April 1989 in New Hope, Pennsylvania, USA, an American political activist in the 1960s/70s, who helped found the Youth International Party (Yippies), took an active interest in the Vietnam War during the period. Hoffman faced trial in 1969 for inciting riots, as one of the eight people arrested outside the Democratic Convention in Chicago in August 1968 (The Chicago Eight) The album Wake Up, America (Big Toe Records # 1) contained several references to Vietnam, such as the tracks "Our National Anthem" and "Texas Tweezers" (which referenced My Lai). The song "The Drug Company" contained the line "we came to Chicago...there isn't a court in this country where we could have put Mayor Richard Daley, and LBJ". It also included the song "Chicago", a 7-minute spoken-word / comedy sketch, with elements of song, about the 1968 demonstration and subsequent trial. "10 miles away from Convention Hall, we came here to Disrupt the convention, ten miles of barb wire fence 25,000 troops, cops and National Guard, they had tanks Armored tanks on the streets of Chicago, National Guard With bayonets, they had helicopters with machine guns... We couldn't find our way out of the park! [laughter].... You should have seen that jury, that was some audience To play to...I got 28 days for contempt for laughing I got 14 for smiling, and I got 2 for throwing kisses at The jury...so I get up on the witness stand...the guy Says, you written any books, well I wrote this book Called 'Fuck the System'...their heads were shaking Like windmills...our whole defense was geared around Giving the judge a heart-attack, there was no way of Beating the charge...we bombed in Chicago..."