How the Hippies Became Yuppies: The Trial of the Chicago 7

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English - July 03, 2021 16:19 - 23 minutes - 28 MB
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How Aaron Sorkin whitewashes the story of hippy activism, and how the hippy activists whitewashed themselves.

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**Bibliography and Further Reading**
* Abbie Hoffman testimony at the Chicago 7 trial: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/Hoffman.html
* Differences between the film and what really happened: https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/trial-of-the-chicago-7/

* Wikipedia page about COINTELPRO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
* _Do It!_ (1970), Jerry Rubin
* _Growing Up at 37_ (1976), Jerry Rubin
* A profile of Jerry Rubin from the 1980s: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1981/10/18/jerry-rubin/beb88e6b-ba7e-4839-80ac-4442f6d47809/
* Abbie Hoffman’s debate with Jerry Rubin in 1985, “Yippie vs. Yuppie” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOFBAJ8BlJs&t=913s, and another time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P1x9u-466A
* NY Times obituary of Jerry Rubin: https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/30/obituaries/jerry-rubin-56-flashy-60-s-radical-dies-yippies-founder-and-chicago-7-defendant.html
* “The ‘Me’ Decade”, Tom Wolfe: https://nymag.com/news/features/45938/