The author of an Abbie

The author of an Abbie Hoffman bio recounts the day that the Yippies took over Disneyland in 1967 (it's way down on the page — search on the page for "Disney").

The people who had gotten off these first two rafts–that's about what it was, it was two raftloads of people–decided to march down Main Street in Disneyland, singing various odes to sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, and marched on down to the city hall of Main Street, Disneyland where they have the American flag on a flagpost. And there was an empty flagpost. Someone pulled out a so-called Yippie flag, red and black with a green marijuana leaf, and started to raise it on the flagpole, OK? And some Orange County redneck came storming up to them and said how dare you raise that flag next to the American flag. And someone else went to the other flagpole as this guy was trying to rip down the Yippie flag, and said "If you rip down our flag we'll rip down your flag."

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