The Island Now, “Going Places Near and Far… Come to San Francisco for 50th Anniversary Celebration of Summer of Love – Be Prepared to Be Blasted into the Past”

One day, The Diggers gave away free food on the steps of City Hall, which enraged San Francisco’s mayor. “’We are not a charity,’ the Diggers declared,” Wes tells us. “’We are an anarchist organization doing what government should do’.” (a philosophy that is reemergent with the anti-Trump activism) It was the act of it, in contrast to the liberals at Berkeley, the intellectual kids, who were theorizing.

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