Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “When music found an ‘Alternate’ home on Milwaukee’s lakefront — in 1971”
byThe Journal and Sentinel frequently referred to the new space as the “People’s Park,” and, the Journal reported on July 4, 1971, the Milwaukee…
The Journal and Sentinel frequently referred to the new space as the “People’s Park,” and, the Journal reported on July 4, 1971, the Milwaukee…
He was arrested again a few months later, at the May Day protests in Washington, D.C., along with thousands of other people. Confronting a…
They were often confrontational with radical political groups that they felt were too mired in old ideology. In some ways, they were the forerunner…
Coyote — he chose the name after he saw coyote tracks in the snow; he was high at the time — is the most…
Another mighty brick of excavated cine-miracles: Arrow Films’ pink house of Japanese avant-gardism, Kiju Yoshida: Love + Anarchism. Yoshida was one of the major…
In Haight-Ashbury, there were groups such as the Family Dog, who lived communally and did much to popularize the fashion for long hair and…
He became a leader of the squatter movement in the 1970s, directing homeless Londoners to available space through his agency Ruff Tuff Cream Puff….
Settling in San Francisco, he co-founded City Lights in 1953. The nation’s first all-paperback bookstore shared North Beach with working-class Italian neighbors, many of…
I’d heard that there would be rock bands and people who lived in communes. People who were anarchists, even. I had never knowingly met…
Chicago-based Edward Aramaic explicitly linked cycling with environmentalism when he founded the Bicycle Ecology group and organised a “pedal-in” in October 1970. This was…