Sell out the revolution - what's your price?

[warrprayer]

Activist Abbie Hoffman gave his answer in 1968.

"Bill Walton, the radical Celtic of basketball renown, told of a puckish Abbie, then underground evading a cocaine charge in the '70s, leaping from the shadows on a New York street to give him an impromptu basketball lesson after a loss to the Knicks. 'Abbie was not a fugitive from justice,' said Mr. Walton. 'Justice was a fugitive from him.' On a more traditional note, Rabbi Norman Mendell said in his eulogy that Mr. Hoffman's long history of protest, antic though much of it had been, was 'in the Jewish prophetic tradition, which is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.''

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[Kip Humphrey]

1. My life.

[warrprayer]

3. not a seconds

hesitation.

[wendylaroux]

2. Love him

[warrprayer]

6. me too

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. There ya go...

The only answer one can give at this point. The alternative is the same...just a slower, more painful suffering spread over time. The outcome is the same.

Our planet is dying. When our planet dies...

There is no planet B.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[SoapBox]

5. +1

[warrprayer]

7. the truth is...

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. Exactly.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[appalachiablue]

8. Really great, thanks. In HS I went to events at a local college with friends.

One afternoon in the campus center I noticed when a young man sat down beside me on a bench seat. He was friendly, animated and Abbie Hoffman. It was just before the lecture he was giving. Never will forget that. What a rare, original person and true gift.

[warrprayer]

10. thanks for sharing that memory.

As you may remember, the Vietnam war led to many people under 30 becoming politically active during the '60s - ' 70s.
I was one of them.

[Rebkeh]

11. Love it

My price?

Justice, fairness, equality, a level playing field, structural change, a government of, for and by the people, and other changes for the better.

Ya know, the things the revolution is for.

This is not a negotiation.

[warrprayer]

12. Wonderful post

thank you so much!