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February 2, 2003
Steal This Book
 Over 25 years ago Abbie Hoffman published "Steal This Book", subtitled "A Handbook
of Survival and Warfare for the Citizens of Woodstock Nation." The Table of
Contents included such "relevant" and "useful" topics as lists of communes, hitch-hiking, panhandling, free dope, guerrilla broadcasting, political asylum, and fake ID papers. However, buried in Yippie
rhetoric were "the demands for a free society. A community where the
technology produces goods and services for whoever needs them, come who may."
The methods were radical, the hopes for the future were not. And--as if
foreseeing the world of free information access we are currently just
starting to explore, he said, "Freedom of the press belongs to those that
own the distribution system. Perhaps that has always been the case, but in a
mass society where nearly everyone is instantaneously plugged into a variety
of national communication systems, wide-spread dissemination of the
information is the crux of the matter." Not so far out and not so far
off, Abbie.
Posted on February 2, 2003 1:37 PM
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Dang - I was hoping they would have the two Cleanliness & Godliness Skiffle Band albums as my tapes are getting worn, but no such luck :-)
Posted by: The Dynamic Driveler on June 24, 2003 1:45 PM
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