Inside the Pigasus Campaign
Pig buttons, pig bumper stickers, pig ads in the New York Times, pig campaign offices all over the country! Far out! Everybody kept asking us, “We know what you are against, but what are you for?” Finally we found something to be for: a pig for president! At last, a positive program!
Sitting here reading about everything that’s been going on down in Denver at this year’s DNC and as the big speech approaches tonight my first thoughts are to Chicago in 1968, the Yippies, and just how much things have changed, in terms of protest and the counter culture, in the years since.
Click the picture above to read, in full, an article that I scanned from the December 1969 issue of Ramparts magazine written by Jerry Rubin about the Yippies’ experience in Chicago at the DNC in 1968.
If the FBI wants to bust those who really created Chicago, they have to indict Holden Caulfield, Caryl Chessman, Elvis Presley, Charles Van Doren, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Jo Kopechne, Oswald Augustus Owsley, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, the Rolling Stones, Sherman Adams, Ken Kesey, Walter Jenkins, Billy the Kid, Bobby Baker, Tim Leary, the Lone Ranger, Gary Powers, Antonin Artaud, Abe Fortas, Country Joe McDonald, Gus Grissom, Lloyd Bucher, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Piersal, John Dillinger, Sybil Leek, Humphrey Bogart, the Marquis de Sade, Charlie Chaplin, and Rin-tin-tin.
For more on Chicago 1968 and Pigasus see Judy Gumbo Albert’s recollections of that time, The Battle of Chicago, over at Counterpunch.org