Important People
This was a prominent founder of the Yippies whose wife proposed the formal name Youth International Party. This person advocated for anti-war and advocated the Yippies principles for his entire life.
Who is Abbie Hoffman?
This was the stunt that Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman pulled when they snuck into the building and rained down both real and fake money.
What is the New York Stock Exchange Stunt?
This was the belief that the Yippies had that can be summed up in a phrase that shows how they put guerrilla theater and spontaneous action for advocacy.
What is "Ideology is a Brain Disease"?
This event happened on December 31, 1968. This is when Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and Paul Krassner were in an apartment building and Paul Krassner yelled out the name "Yippies"
When was the Founding of the Yippes?
The "Chicago 7" trial, what did it do to their popularity or what did it start a period of?
What is the downfall of Yippies?
This was a co-founder of the Yippies but he later "sold out" and switched from being a Yippie to a Yuppie and became a Wall Street stockbroker in the 1980s.
Who is Jerry Rubin
This protest was a week-long countercultural protest where the Yippies nominated a pig, named Pigasus, for president.
What is the Festival of Life?
The Yippies wanted a society where there were these places (what were the places called) for everyone to use for example, free stores, co-ops, as well as underground media.
What are communal institutions?
This item was released on January 16, 1968 and was a collection of the Yippies thoughts and beliefs, including ideas of personal freedom. It was also an open invitation to counter the "National Convention of Death"
What is the First Manifesto of the Yippies?
The Yippies resented traditional protests and used humor to fight for their beliefs.
What is political satire?
This person was another important co founder of the Youth International Party and coined the name Yippies.
Who is Paul Krassner?
This was the most intense confrontation of the week among protesters and the police during the time of the National Democratic Convention of 1968
These were the two big ideas the Yippies advocated against for.
What is anti-war and anti-authorian?
This event happened on August 23, 1968 and was a monumental and remembered moment as a protest of the National Democratic Convention of 1968. The Yippies in this to protest raised and nominated a 145 pound pig named Pigasus.
What is social media?
This was an important Yippie organizer and was the partner of Jerry Rubin, though they later broke up. This person helped plan the National Democratic convention of 1968 protests and was a key activist in the feminist and anti-war movement.
Who is Nancy Kurshan?
This was the event where the Yippies broke in to this place (amusement park) and raised their flag for a "New Nation"
What is the 1970 Disneyland Invasion?
The Yippies believed they were this term, people who rejected traditional norms and wanted a cultural liberation.
Who were lifestyle/cultural revolutionaries?
This happened during August 1968. It was the convention against this party and famously raised a pig they dubbed named Pigasus.
What is the protest of Democratic National Convention?
The Yippies were appealing to primarily this group?
What is the youth?
This person was a folk singer, with his songs like " "I Ain't Marching Any More" becoming the soundtrack for many of the Yippies major demonstrations and protests.
Who is Phil Ochs?
This was the event where Hoffman and Rubin chanted “Out, demons, out!” to exorcise “evil spirits” at this government building for the National Defense sector and tried to raise the building itself 300 feet up in the air.
What is the levitating of the Pentagon (or the march on the Pentagon)?
This was a two word term the Yippies called themselves which was a mix of two ideas and people.
Who are Grucho Marxists?
This event from September 24, 1969, to February 18, 1970 and was when 7 people, including Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin were put on trial for charges of alleged conspiracy and the intent to incite a riot across interstate lines.
What is the Chicago Seven trial?
This form of protests made the Yippies different than other political portests.
What is guerrilla theater?