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{{Short description|1960s American youth-oriented counter-cultural political party}}
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{{redirect-distinguish|Yippie|Yuppie|Hippie}}
{{other uses|Yippie (disambiguation)}}
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{{Use American English|date=February 2022}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2022}}
{{Infobox political party
| name             = Youth International Party
| colorcode        = black
| leader           = [[Nobody for President|Nobody]] ([[Pigasus (politics)|Pigasus]] used as a symbolic leader)
| foundation       = {{Start date|1967|12|31}} (as Yippies)
| ideology         = [[Anarchism]]<br>[[Anti-authoritarianism]]<br>[[Counterculture]]<br>[[Marijuana legalization]]<br>[[Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War|Anti-Vietnam War]]
| headquarters     = New York City
| website          = 
| country          = the United States
| flag             = [[File:Flag of Yippies.svg|200px]]
| newspaper        = ''The Yipster Times''<br />''Youth International Party Line''<br />''Overthrow''
| colors           = Black, green, red
| successor        = [[Grassroots Party]]
| position         = 
}}
The '''Youth International Party''' ('''YIP'''), whose members were commonly called '''Yippies''', was an American youth-oriented [[Radical politics|radical]] and [[Counterculture|countercultural]] [[revolutionary]] offshoot of the [[Free Speech Movement|free speech]] and [[anti-war movement]]s of the late 1960s. It was founded on December 31, 1967.<ref name=Krassner>{{cite book|author=Paul Krassner|title=Confessions of a raving, unconfined nut: misadventures in the counter-culture|page=156|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|date=1994|isbn=9781593765033}}</ref><ref>Neil A. Hamilton, The ABC-CLIO companion to the 1960s counterculture in America, Page 339, ABC-CLIO, 1997</ref> They employed theatrical gestures to mock the social [[status quo]], such as advancing a pig called "[[Pigasus the Immortal]]" as a candidate for [[President of the United States]] in 1968.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/media/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/yippies|publisher=St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture|title=Yippies|author=David Holloway|date=2002|df=mdy-all|access-date=March 5, 2022|archive-date=January 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117155545/https://www.encyclopedia.com/media/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/yippies|url-status=live}}<!--alt: https://archive.today/20120709141214/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419101355/ --></ref> They have been described as a highly theatrical, [[Anti-authoritarianism|anti-authoritarian]], and anarchist youth movement of "symbolic politics".<ref name="Abbie Hoffman page 128">Abbie Hoffman, Soon to be a Major Motion Picture, page 128. Perigee Books, 1980. {{ISBN|9780399505034}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Gitlin|first=Todd|title=[[The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage]] |location=New York|year=1993|pages=[https://archive.org/details/sixtiesyearshope00gitl/page/n282 286]|isbn=978-0553372120|publisher=[[Bantam Books]]}}</ref>

Since they were well known for [[street theater]], protesting against the [[Legal history of cannabis in the United States|criminalization of cannabis in the United States]] with [[smoke-in]]s, and politically themed [[pranks]], they were either ignored or denounced by many of the [[Old Left]]. According to [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]], "The group was known for street theater pranks and was once referred to as the '[[Groucho Marx]]ists'."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/popup?id=3321269&contentIndex=1&page=9&start=false|title=1969: Height of the Hippies|work=ABC News|access-date=February 4, 2016|archive-date=August 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812224154/https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/popup?id=3321269&contentIndex=1&page=9&start=false|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Background==
The Yippies had [[Anti-authoritarianism|no formal membership or hierarchy]]. The organization was founded by [[Abbie Hoffman|Abbie]] and [[Anita Hoffman]], [[Jerry Rubin]], [[Nancy Kurshan]], and [[Paul Krassner]], at a meeting in the Hoffmans' New York apartment on December 31, 1967.<ref>Rubin, Jerry, DO IT! Scenarios of the Revolution, page 81, Simon and Schuster,  1970.</ref> According to his own account, Krassner coined the name. "If the press had created '[[hippie]],' could not we five hatch the 'yippie'?" Abbie Hoffman wrote.<ref name="Abbie Hoffman page 128"/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/stealthisdreamab00slom|isbn=9780385411622|author=Sloman, Larry|title=Steal This Dream: Abbie Hoffman & the Countercultural Revolution in America|publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]]|date=7 August 1998}}</ref>

Other activists associated with the Yippies include [[Stew Albert]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/01/nyregion/stew-albert-66-who-used-laughter-to-protest-a-war-dies.html|title=Stew Albert, 66, Who Used Laughter to Protest a War, Dies|website=New York Times|first=Douglas|last=Martin|date=February 2006 |access-date=2006-02-01|archive-date=October 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014034719/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/01/nyregion/stew-albert-66-who-used-laughter-to-protest-a-war-dies.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Judy Gumbo]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/29/fuck-you-motherfuckers/|author=Jacobs, Ron|title=Fuck You, Motherfuckers|publisher=[[CounterPunch]]|website=CounterPunch.org|access-date=April 29, 2022}}</ref> [[Ed Sanders]],<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7_MJngb8LT0C&q=yippie+concerts&pg=PT524|title=Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs and Counterculture in the Lower East Side|author=Ed Sanders|publisher=[[Da Capo Press]]|isbn=978-0306818882|date=2011|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233617/https://books.google.com/books?id=7_MJngb8LT0C&q=yippie+concerts&pg=PT524|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Robin Morgan]],<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iU97L2XVGN4C&q=yippies+feminists&pg=PT78|title=Mass Media and the Shaping of American Feminism, 1963–1975|author=Patricia Bradley|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|date=2004|isbn=9781604730517|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233618/https://books.google.com/books?id=iU97L2XVGN4C&q=yippies+feminists&pg=PT78|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Phil Ochs]], [[Robert M. Ockene]], [[William Kunstler]], [[Jonah Raskin]], [[Wavy Gravy]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theothermagazines.com/article/wavy-gravy|author=Guerra, Ranch|title=Wavy Gravy: An interview with the Clown Prince of the 60s Counter-Culture|website=TheOtherMagazines.com|publisher=TheOther|access-date=October 25, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://rainbowvalentine.com/wavy.html|title=American Prankster: Wavy Gravy's Life Story (11 episodes)|author=Lerner, Thessaly|website=RainbowValentine.com|publisher=Rainbow Valentine Studios|date=2022}}</ref> [[Steve Conliff]], Jerome Washington,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/info/speccoll/Jerome%20Washington%20Papers.pdf|title=Jerome Washington Collection 1979–1988|website=John Jay College of Criminal Justice|publisher=[[John Jay College of Criminal Justice]] Special Collections of the [[Lloyd Sealy Library]]|date=1988|access-date=January 9, 2018|archive-date=October 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027064200/https://www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/info/speccoll/Jerome%20Washington%20Papers.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> [[John Sinclair (poet)|John Sinclair]], Jim Retherford,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theragblog.com/robert-sharlet-jim-retherford-the-man-in-a-red-devil-suit/|title=Jim Retherford, 'the Man in the Red Devil Suit|author=Robert Sharlet|website=The Rag Blog|date=19 February 2014|access-date=October 3, 2021|archive-date=October 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211003233537/http://www.theragblog.com/robert-sharlet-jim-retherford-the-man-in-a-red-devil-suit/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theragblog.com/james-retherford-books-little-big-meshuganah/|author=James Retherford|title=Little Big Meshuganah|website=The Rag Blog|date=6 June 2018|access-date=October 3, 2021|archive-date=October 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211003233537/http://www.theragblog.com/james-retherford-books-little-big-meshuganah/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Dana Beal]],<ref name=Oliver>{{cite web|url=http://bondiviewertest.azurewebsites.net/DataView/Article/HT?issueKey=19770601&articleKey=19770601053|title=INTERVIEW : Dana Beal|author=Oliver, David|publisher=High Times|date=June 1977|access-date=December 15, 2017|archive-date=December 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215221521/http://bondiviewertest.azurewebsites.net/DataView/Article/HT?issueKey=19770601&articleKey=19770601053|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=IT>{{cite web|url=http://internationaltimes.it/dana-beal-interview/|website=International Times|author=Viola, Saira|title=Dana Beal Interview|access-date=25 August 2016|archive-date=August 31, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170831175738/http://internationaltimes.it/dana-beal-interview/|url-status=live}}</ref> Betty (Zaria) Andrew,<ref name=Hawthorn>{{cite news|url=http://theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/yippie-for-mayor/article625438/|title=Yippie for Mayor|website=The Globe and Mail|author=Hawthorn, Tom|date=June 22, 2011 |access-date=2011-06-22|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233623/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/yippie-for-mayor/article625438/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Zaria>{{cite web|url=https://pasttensevancouver.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/zariaformayor.jpg|title=ZARIA FOR MAYOR (poster)|website=Past Tense Vancouver|access-date=23 June 2011|archive-date=February 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225111039/https://pasttensevancouver.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/zariaformayor.jpg|url-status=live}}</ref> Joanee Freedom, Danny Boyle,<ref name=Starecheski>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6iYiDQAAQBAJ&q=yippies+1980&pg=PA57|title=Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City|author=Amy Starecheski|publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]]|isbn=978-0226399942|date=2016|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=August 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200818183802/https://books.google.com/books?id=6iYiDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=yippies+1980|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Ben Masel]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/20/nyregion/yippie-is-seized-after-a-dispute-near-bomb-site.html|title=YIPPIE IS SEIZED AFTER A DISPUTE NEAR BOMB SITE|author=TIMOTHY M. PHELPS|website=New York Times|date=20 March 1981|access-date=December 20, 2017|archive-date=December 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215221648/http://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/20/nyregion/yippie-is-seized-after-a-dispute-near-bomb-site.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Bmasel>{{cite web|url=https://www.tokeofthetown.com/2011/05/remembering_ben_masel_activist_changed_the_cannabi.php/|title=Remembering Ben Masel: Activist Changed The Cannabis Debate|website=Toke of the Town|author=Elliott, Steve|date=May 3, 2011 |access-date=3 May 2011|archive-date=September 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180908092926/https://www.tokeofthetown.com/2011/05/remembering_ben_masel_activist_changed_the_cannabi.php/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Tom Forcade]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blacklistedjournalist.com/column68b.html|title=Tom Forcade, Social Architect|author=[[Al Aronowitz]]|website=The Blacklisted Journalist|access-date=2002-02-01|archive-date=February 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224161719/http://www.blacklistedjournalist.com/column68b.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XfjnCQAAQBAJ&q=tom+forcade&pg=PT192|title=High In America: The True Story Behind NORML And The Politics Of Marijuana|date=February 27, 1981|isbn=978-0670119905|publisher=[[Viking Press]]|author=Patrick Anderson|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233621/https://books.google.com/books?id=XfjnCQAAQBAJ&q=tom+forcade&pg=PT192|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Paul Watson]],<ref>Larry Gambone, ''No Regrets'', p. 97, Black Cat Press, 2015.</ref> [[David Peel (musician)|David Peel]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://teamrock.com/feature/2016-03-22/the-tale-of-david-peel-the-dope-smoking-hippy-who-became-the-king-of-punk|title=The tale of David Peel, the dope-smoking hippy who became the King of Punk|website=TeamRock.com|first=Kris|last=Needs|date=March 22, 2016 |access-date=2016-03-22|archive-date=October 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010055544/http://teamrock.com/feature/2016-03-22/the-tale-of-david-peel-the-dope-smoking-hippy-who-became-the-king-of-punk|url-status=live}}</ref> Bill Weinberg,<ref name=Weinberg>{{cite web|url=https://countervortex.org/revolution-9/|author=Weinberg, Bill|title=REVOLUTION 9|website=CounterVortex.org|date=June 25, 2024 |access-date=June 25, 2024}}</ref> Aron Kay,<ref name=Viola>{{cite web|url=http://gonzotoday.com/2016/11/05/yippie-yippie-pie-aye/|title=Yippie! Yippie! Pie Aye! Interview with Aron Kay, champion pie thrower, grassroots activist, unrepentant hippie yippie, professional agitator, Jewish world warrior|first=Saira|last=Viola|website=Gonzo Today|date=November 5, 2016 |access-date=2016-11-05|archive-date=October 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006062749/http://gonzotoday.com/2016/11/05/yippie-yippie-pie-aye/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zisman.ca/openroad/1977-Fall/pages/P7.pdf|title=Come Pie With Me : the Creaming of America|first=P.|last=Traynor|publisher=Open Road|date=4 November 1977|access-date=October 14, 2017|archive-date=October 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014083937/http://www.zisman.ca/openroad/1977-Fall/pages/P7.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Tuli Kupferberg]],<ref>YIPster Times, "Abbie Hoffman:  Back to Chicago," June 1978</ref> [[Jill Johnston]],<ref>{{cite book|author=[[Karla Jay]]|title=Tales of the Lavender Menace : A Memoir of Liberation|page=231|publisher=[[Basic Books]]|date=March 3, 2000|isbn=978-0465083664}}</ref> Daisy Deadhead,<ref>YIPster Times, "Midwest Activism featuring May Midwest" p. 2, December 1977</ref><ref name=Deadhead>{{cite web|url=https://daisysdeadair.blogspot.com/2008/01/i-wish-someone-would-phone-or-real.html|title=I wish someone would phone|website=Dead Air|author=Deadhead, Daisy|date=January 16, 2008 |access-date=2008-01-16|archive-date=January 25, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080125234343/http://daisysdeadair.blogspot.com/2008/01/i-wish-someone-would-phone-or-real.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Leatrice Urbanowicz,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dks.library.kent.edu/cgi-bin/kentstate?a=d&d=dks19780329-01.2.11|title=Student on Ballot with Pie Thrower: she's candidate for lieutenant governor|publisher=Daily Kent Stater|first=Marc|last=Rapport|date=29 March 1978|access-date=October 13, 2017|archive-date=October 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013234257/https://dks.library.kent.edu/cgi-bin/kentstate?a=d&d=dks19780329-01.2.11|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://dks.library.kent.edu/cgi-bin/kentstate?a=d&d=dks19780405-01.2.25|title=Urbanowicz Removed from State Office Race|publisher=Daily Kent Stater|date=5 April 1978|access-date=October 13, 2017|archive-date=October 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013232409/https://dks.library.kent.edu/cgi-bin/kentstate?a=d&d=dks19780405-01.2.25|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Bob Fass]],<ref>David Lewis Stein, ''Living the Revolution: The Yippies in Chicago'', p. 11, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1969.</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iIawxNOBCgYC&q=yippies&pg=PA91|title=Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America|author-link=Jesse Walker|first=Jesse|last=Walker|publisher=New York University Press|isbn=978-0814793817|date=2001|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233621/https://books.google.com/books?id=iIawxNOBCgYC&q=yippies&pg=PA91|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Mayer Vishner]],<ref name=Vishner>{{cite web|url=http://bedfordandbowery.com/2013/08/yippie-and-peace-activist-mayer-vishner-is-dead-apparently-a-suicide/|title=Yippie and Peace Activist Mayer Vishner Is Dead, Apparently a Suicide|author=Reinholz, Mary|website=Bedford + Bowery|publisher=NYmag|access-date=28 August 2013|archive-date=April 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180415124831/http://bedfordandbowery.com/2013/08/yippie-and-peace-activist-mayer-vishner-is-dead-apparently-a-suicide/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/02/07/storied-village-activist-mayer-vishner-faces-the-end-in-bracing-doc-left-on-purpose/|title=FILM: Storied Village Activist Mayer Vishner Faces the End in Bracing Doc 'Left on Purpose'|website=VillageVoice.com|publisher=[[Village Voice]]|author=Donadoni, Serena|date=February 7, 2017 |access-date=7 February 2017|archive-date=April 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180415190412/https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/02/07/storied-village-activist-mayer-vishner-faces-the-end-in-bracing-doc-left-on-purpose/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Alice Torbush,<ref name=Montgomery>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/18/nyregion/bomb-burns-two-detectives-outside-building-of-yippies.html|title=BOMB BURNS TWO DETECTIVES OUTSIDE BUILDING OF YIPPIES|author=Montgomery, Paul L.|website=New York Times|date=18 March 1981|access-date=January 29, 2018|archive-date=January 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180110174249/http://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/18/nyregion/bomb-burns-two-detectives-outside-building-of-yippies.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Moynihan2014>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/nyregion/emptying-a-building-long-home-to-activists.html|title=Emptying a Building Long Home to Activists|website=The New York Times|first=Colin|last=Moynihan|access-date=2014-01-16|archive-date=September 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916094805/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/nyregion/emptying-a-building-long-home-to-activists.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Patrick K. Kroupa]], Judy Lampe,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.desertsun.com/story/life/entertainment/people/brucefessierentertainment/2018/08/22/yippie-co-founder-paul-krassner-1968-chicago-democratic-national-convention/891235002/|title=50 years after the Chicago Democratic National Convention, Paul Krassner still hasn't sold out|author=[[Bruce Fessier]]|website=DesertSun.com|publisher=[[The Desert Sun]]|access-date=22 August 2018|archive-date=January 29, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220129203140/https://www.desertsun.com/story/life/entertainment/people/brucefessierentertainment/2018/08/22/yippie-co-founder-paul-krassner-1968-chicago-democratic-national-convention/891235002/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Steve DeAngelo]],<ref name=DeAngelo>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2RrXCwAAQBAJ&q=yippie+smoke+ins&pg=PA69|title=The Cannabis Manifesto: A New Paradigm for Wellness|author-link=Steve DeAngelo|first=Steve|last=DeAngelo|publisher=[[North Atlantic Books]]|location=Berkeley, CA, USA|isbn=978-1583949375|date=2015|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233622/https://books.google.com/books?id=2RrXCwAAQBAJ&q=yippie+smoke+ins&pg=PA69|url-status=live}}</ref> Dean Tuckerman,<ref name=Montgomery /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://anarchistnews.org/content/dean-tuckerman-1952-2024|website=AnarchistNews.org|publisher=AnarchyPlanet.org|title=Dean Tuckerman 1952-2024|access-date=October 10, 2024}}</ref> [[Dennis Peron]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2012/11/15/marijuana-legalization-seeds-planted-long-ago-finally-flower/|title=Marijuana Legalization: Seeds Planted Long Ago Finally Flower|website=SFGate|first=Oscar|last=Pascual|access-date=2012-11-15|archive-date=October 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010104403/http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2012/11/15/marijuana-legalization-seeds-planted-long-ago-finally-flower/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Jim Fouratt]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cityartsmagazine.com/you-say-you-want-revolution/|title=Activist, individualist and entrepreneur Jerry Rubin was the quintessential American|website=City Arts Magazine|author=Thomas, Pat|date=September 22, 2017 |access-date=29 May 2018|archive-date=May 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180530035716/http://www.cityartsmagazine.com/you-say-you-want-revolution/|url-status=live}}</ref> Steve Wessing,<ref name=Bmasel /> John Penley,<ref name=Tamiment>{{cite web|url=http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_501/dscref14.html|title=Guide to the John Penley Photographs and Papers/Elmer Holmes Bobst Library|publisher=Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives (NYU)|website=[[New York University]]|access-date=24 March 2015|archive-date=September 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180908130417/http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_501/dscref14.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Pete Wagner]] and Brenton Lengel.<ref name=Lennard>{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/2012/06/18/an_occupier_eyes_congress/|title=An Occupier Eyes Congress|first=Natasha|last=Lennard|website=Salon|date=June 18, 2012|access-date=2012-06-18|archive-date=April 28, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160428011554/http://www.salon.com/2012/06/18/an_occupier_eyes_congress/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thefifthcolumnnews.com/2016/03/interview-with-brenton-lengel2/|title=Interview With Brenton Lengel|website=The Fifth Column|access-date=2016-04-17|archive-date=April 25, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425150555/http://thefifthcolumnnews.com/2016/03/interview-with-brenton-lengel2/|url-status=live}}</ref>

A Yippie flag was often seen at anti-war demonstrations. The flag had a [[Anarchist symbolism#Black flag|black background]] with a five-pointed [[red star]] in the center, and a green [[Cannabis (drug)|cannabis]] leaf superimposed over it. When asked about the Yippie flag, an anonymous Yippie identified only as "Jung" told ''The New York Times'' that "The black is for anarchy.  The red star is for our [[Socialist heraldry|five point program]].  And the leaf is for marijuana, which is for getting ecologically stoned without polluting the environment."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=znjlwbfZOTcC&q=yippie+flag+five+point&pg=PA78|title=Collision at Home Plate: The Lives of Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|author-link=James Reston Jr|first=James Jr.|last=Reston|isbn=978-0803289642|date=1 February 1997|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=April 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430172215/https://books.google.com/books?id=znjlwbfZOTcC&q=yippie+flag+five+point&pg=PA78|url-status=live}}</ref>  This flag is also mentioned in Hoffman's ''[[Steal This Book]]''.<ref>Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book, page 73. Grove Press, 1971.</ref>

Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin became the most famous Yippies—and bestselling authors—in part due to publicity surrounding the five-month [[Chicago Seven]] Conspiracy trial of 1969. They both used the phrase "ideology is a brain disease" to separate the Yippies from mainstream political parties that played the game by the rules. Hoffman and Rubin were arguably the most colorful of the seven defendants accused of [[criminal conspiracy]] and [[Incitement|inciting]] to [[riot]] at the August [[1968 Democratic National Convention]]. Hoffman and Rubin used the trial as a platform for Yippie antics—at one point, they showed up in court attired in judicial robes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://famous-trials.com/chicago8/1321-contempt|title=The Chicago Eight Trial: Selected Contempt Specifications|website=Famous Trials|access-date=October 8, 2017|archive-date=October 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008233513/http://famous-trials.com/chicago8/1321-contempt|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Origins===
[[File:Yippie poster.jpg|thumb|270px|YIP poster advertising the 1968 [[1968 Democratic National Convention protest activity|Festival of Life]].]]
The term ''Yippie'' was invented by Krassner, as well as Abbie and Anita Hoffman, on New Year's Eve 1967. [[Paul Krassner]] wrote in a January 2007 article in the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'':

{{blockquote|We needed a name to signify the radicalization of hippies, and I came up with Yippie as a label for a phenomenon that already existed, an organic coalition of [[psychedelia|psychedelic]] hippies and political activists. In the process of cross-fertilization at antiwar demonstrations, we had come to share an awareness that there was a linear connection between putting kids in prison for smoking pot in this country and burning them to death with [[napalm]] on the other side of the planet.<ref name=latimes2007jan28>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-28-ca-yippies28-story.html "'60s live again, minus the LSD"] . By [[Paul Krassner]]. January 28, 2007. ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''.</ref>}}

Anita Hoffman liked the word, but felt that ''[[The New York Times]]'' and other "strait-laced types" needed a more formal name to take the movement seriously. That same night she came up with Youth International Party, because it symbolized the movement and made for a good play on words.<ref>David T. Dellinger, Judy Clavir and John Spitzer, The Conspiracy Trial, page 349. Bobbs-Merrill, 1970. {{isbn|978-0306818882}}</ref>

Along with the name Youth International Party, the organization was also simply called Yippie!, as in a shout for joy (with an exclamation mark to express exhilaration).<ref>Jonah Raskin, For the Hell of It, page 129. University of California Press, 1996. {{isbn|978-0520213791}}</ref> "What does Yippie! mean?" Abbie Hoffman wrote. "Energy – fun – fierceness – exclamation point!"<ref>Abbie Hoffman, Revolution For the Hell of It, page 81. Dial Press, 1968. {{isbn|978-1560256908}}</ref>

===First press conference===
The Yippies held their first press conference in New York at the Americana Hotel March 17, 1968, five months before the August [[1968 Democratic National Convention]] in Chicago. [[Judy Collins]] sang at the press conference.<ref name=Krassner /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.famous-trials.com/chicago8/1320-collins|title=The Chicago Eight Trial : Testimony of Judy Collins|website=Famous Trials|access-date=October 6, 2017|archive-date=October 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007071416/http://www.famous-trials.com/chicago8/1320-collins|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript348_full.html|title=NOW with Bill Moyers (transcript dated 11-26-04)|website=PBS|access-date=2004-11-26|archive-date=November 9, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109174151/http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript348_full.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' reported it with an article titled: "Yipes! The Yippies Are Coming!"<ref name=latimes2007jan28/>

==The New Nation concept==
{{Anarchism US|organizations}}
{{Socialism US|defunct orgs}}

The Yippie "New Nation" concept called for the creation of alternative, counterculture institutions: [[food co-op]]s; [[underground press|underground newspapers]] and [[zines]]; [[free clinic]]s and [[support groups]]; [[artist collective]]s; [[potlatch]]es, [[Flea Market|"swap-meets"]] and [[Give-away shop|free stores]]; [[organic farming]]/[[permaculture]]; [[pirate radio]], [[bootleg recording]] and [[public-access television]]; [[squatting]]; [[Free school movement|free schools]]; etc.  Yippies believed these cooperative institutions and a radicalized hippie culture would spread until they supplanted the existing system.  Many of these ideas/practices came from other (overlapping and intermingling) counter-cultural groups such as the [[Diggers (theater)|Diggers]],<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XUikrTLOJPQC&q=yippies&pg=PA27|title=Anti-Disciplinary Protest: Sixties Radicalism and Postmodernism|author=Julie Stephens|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0521629768|date=1998|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233622/https://books.google.com/books?id=XUikrTLOJPQC&q=yippies&pg=PA27|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.diggers.org/history.htm|title=A People's Hxstory of the Sixties|website=The Digger Archives|access-date=October 7, 2017|archive-date=August 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812060243/http://www.diggers.org/history.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[San Francisco Mime Troupe]], the [[Merry Pranksters]]/[[Deadhead]]s,<ref>Rosie McGee, "Total Environmental Theatre" in ''Grateful Dead Family Album'', p. 38–40, Time-Warner Books 1990, ed. Jerilyn Lee Brandelius {{isbn|978-0446391672}}</ref><ref>Jerilyn Lee Brandelius, "Every Structure Became a Dwelling" in ''Grateful Dead Family Album'', p. 68–69, Time-Warner Books 1990, ed. Jerilyn Lee Brandelius {{isbn|978-0446391672}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0tMVBQAAQBAJ&q=yippies+deadheads&pg=PT93|title=Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America|author=Jesse Jarnow|publisher=[[Da Capo Press]]|date=2016|isbn=978-0306822551|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233623/https://books.google.com/books?id=0tMVBQAAQBAJ&q=yippies+deadheads&pg=PT93|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[Hog Farm]],<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9H_ZYTUXCRIC&q=yippies+hog+farm&pg=PA288|title=Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the 1960s|publisher=[[Seven Stories Press]]|author=[[Mike Marqusee]]|date=2003|isbn=978-1583226865|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233658/https://books.google.com/books?id=9H_ZYTUXCRIC&q=yippies+hog+farm&pg=PA288|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[Rainbow Family]],<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/peopleofrainbowa00nima|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/peopleofrainbowa00nima/page/118 118]|quote=yippies rainbow family.|title=People of the Rainbow: A Nomadic Utopia|author=Michael I. Niman|publisher=[[University of Tennessee Press]], Knoxville|date=1997|isbn=978-1572337466}}</ref> the [[Esalen Institute]],<ref>[[William Irwin Thompson]], "Going Beyond it at Big Sur" in ''At the Edge of History: Speculations on the Transformation of Culture'', p. 27-66, Harper & Row, 1971. {{ISBN|978-0686675709}}</ref> the [[Peace and Freedom Party]], the [[White Panther Party]] and [[The Farm (Tennessee)|The Farm]]. There was much overlap, social interaction and cross-pollination within these groups and the Yippies, so there was much crossover membership,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/11/archives/jerry-rubins-change-of-cause-from-antiwar-to-me-movement-just-mimi.html|title=Jerry Rubin's Change of Cause: From Antiwar to 'Me'|newspaper=New York Times|author=Klemesrud, Judy|date=11 November 1978|access-date=December 20, 2017|archive-date=October 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010055617/http://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/11/archives/jerry-rubins-change-of-cause-from-antiwar-to-me-movement-just-mimi.html|url-status=live}}</ref> as well as similar influences and intentions.<ref>Tom Wolfe, ''[[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test]]'', Farrar Straus Giroux, 1968 {{isbn|978-0312427597}}</ref><ref>Robert Stone, ''[[Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties]]'', HarperCollins Publishers, 2007 {{isbn|978-0060957773}}</ref>

"We are a people. We are a new nation," YIP's New Nation Statement said of the burgeoning [[hippie]] movement. "We want everyone to control their own life and to care for one another ... We cannot tolerate attitudes, institutions, and machines whose purpose is the destruction of life, the accumulation of profit."<ref>The New Yippie Book Collective (eds.), Blacklisted News: Secret Histories from Chicago to 1984, page 514. Bleecker Publishing, 1983.{{isbn|978-0912873008}}</ref>

The goal was a decentralized, collective, [[anarchism|anarchistic]] nation rooted in the borderless hippie counterculture and its communal ethos. Abbie Hoffman wrote:

<blockquote>We shall not defeat Amerika by organizing a political party. We shall do it by building a new nation—a nation as rugged as the marijuana leaf.<ref>Abbie Hoffman, Woodstock Nation, back cover. Vintage Books, 1969.</ref><ref>John Anthony Moretta, ''The Hippies: A 1960s History'', p. 260. [[McFarland & Company]], Jefferson, NC. 2017. {{ISBN|978-0786499496}}</ref></blockquote>

The flag for the "new nation" consisted of a black background with a red five pointed star in the center and a green marijuana leaf superimposed over it (same as the YIP flag).<ref>[https://www.fotw.info/flags/us%7Dyip.html Flags of the World – Youth International Party listing] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210053745/https://www.fotw.info/flags/us%7Dyip.html |date=February 10, 2012 }}</ref>

The [[Chicago History Museum]] shows a different flag for the new nation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.chicagohistory.org/index.php/2011/06/yippies-in-lincoln-park-1968/|title=Chicago History Museum – Blog » Blog Archive » Yippies in Lincoln Park, 1968|access-date=February 4, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304073042/http://blog.chicagohistory.org/index.php/2011/06/yippies-in-lincoln-park-1968/|archive-date=March 4, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref> It is not the marijuana leaf. It has the word NOW under what looks like the all-seeing eye on a pyramid seen on the back of a dollar bill.

==Culture and activism==
{{See also|Counterculture of the 1960s}}

The Yippies often paid tribute to [[rock 'n' roll]] and irreverent pop-culture figures such as the [[Marx Brothers]], [[James Dean]] and [[Lenny Bruce]]. Many Yippies used nicknames which contained [[Baby Boomer]] television or pop references, such as [[Pogo (comics)|Pogo]] or [[Gumby]]. (Pogo was notable for creating the famous slogan: "[[Pogo (comic strip)#.22We have met the enemy and he is us..22|We have met the enemy and he is us]]"—first used on a 1970 [[Earth Day]] poster.)

The Yippies' love of pop-culture was one way to differentiate the Old and New Left, as [[Jesse Walker]] writes in [[Reason (magazine)|''Reason'']] magazine:

{{blockquote|Forty years ago, the yippies seemed unusual because they fused the political radicalism of the [[New Left]] with the long-haired, grass-smoking lifestyle of the counterculture. Today that combination is so familiar that many people don't even realize that the protesters and the hippies initially distrusted each other. What seems most curious about the yippies ''today'' is the way they mixed hard left politics with a deep appreciation for pop culture. Abbie Hoffman announced that he wanted to combine the styles of [[Andy Warhol]] and [[Fidel Castro]]. Jerry Rubin dedicated ''Do it!'' not just to his girlfriend but to "Dope, Color TV, and Violent Revolution." Even when praising a form of mass culture that had earned some grudging respect from the late-'60s left—[[rock and roll|rock 'n' roll]]—Rubin's list of musicians who "gave us the life/beat and set us free" included not just raucous originals like [[Jerry Lee Lewis]] and [[Bo Diddley]] but [[Fabian Forte|Fabian]] and [[Frankie Avalon]], commercial confections that most lefty rock intellectuals disdained as insufficiently authentic. In one chapter, Rubin complained that if "the white ideological left" took over, "Rock dancing would be taboo, and [[miniskirts]], Hollywood movies and comic books would be illegal." All this from a self-proclaimed [[communism|communist]] whose heroes included Castro, [[Chairman Mao]], and [[Ho Chi Minh]].

It's not that the yippies swallowed pop culture uncritically. (Hoffman kept a sign attached to the bottom of his TV that said "bullshit.") It's that they saw the mass media's dream-world as another terrain to fight in.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reason.com/archives/2008/08/27/the-yippie-show|title=The Yippie Show|author=Walker, Jesse|website=REASON|date=August 27, 2008|access-date=27 August 2008|archive-date=December 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171216034612/http://reason.com/archives/2008/08/27/the-yippie-show|url-status=live}}</ref>}}

At demonstrations and parades, Yippies often wore [[face paint]] or colorful [[bandanna]]s to keep from being identified in photographs. Other Yippies reveled in the spotlight, allowing their stealthier comrades the anonymity they needed for their pranks.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/chicago10/yippies.html |title=CHICAGO 10: The Film: The Players: The Yippies |publisher=PBS |date=22 October 2008 |access-date=October 2, 2017 |archive-date=October 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002165545/http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/chicago10/yippies.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8VMEAAAAMBAJ&q=yippies&pg=PA38-IA2|title=The Loony Humor of the Yippies|author=[[Shana Alexander]]|publisher=LIFE magazine|date=25 October 1968|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233701/https://books.google.com/books?id=8VMEAAAAMBAJ&q=yippies&pg=PA38-IA2|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Aim_-KChqLgC&q=yippies&pg=PA35|title=Play, Creativity, and Social Movements: If I Can't Dance, It's Not My Revolution|author=Benjamin Shepard|publisher=[[Routledge]]|date=2012|isbn=9781136829642|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233701/https://books.google.com/books?id=Aim_-KChqLgC&q=yippies&pg=PA35|url-status=live}}</ref>

One cultural intervention that misfired was at [[Woodstock Festival|Woodstock]], with [[Abbie Hoffman]] interrupting a performance by [[The Who]], trying to speak against the incarceration of [[John Sinclair (poet)|John Sinclair]], sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1969 after giving two joints to an undercover narcotics officer. Guitarist [[Pete Townshend]] used his guitar to bat Hoffman off the stage.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/B_xR__PLTyY Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20101104043401/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_xR__PLTyY Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_xR__PLTyY|title=the who – woodstock incident with abbie hoffman and pete|date=June 13, 2008|access-date=February 4, 2016|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} (Audio only)</ref>

The Yippies were the first on the [[New Left]] to make a point of exploiting mass media.<ref>Abbie Hoffman, Soon to be a Major Motion Picture, p. 86. Perigee Books, 1980.</ref> Colorful, theatrical Yippie actions were tailored to attract media coverage and also to provide a stage where people could express the "repressed" Yippie inside them.<ref name="doit86">Jerry Rubin, ''Do It!'', page 86. Simon and Schuster, 1970. {{isbn|978-0671206017}}</ref> "We believe every nonyippie is a repressed yippie," Jerry Rubin wrote in ''Do it!'' "We try to bring out the yippie in everybody."<ref name="doit86"/>

===Early Yippie actions===
[[File:Yippie! Button at the Chicago History Museum.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A "Yippie!" button on display at the [[Chicago History Museum]]]]
Yippies were famous for their sense of humor.<ref>[[Joseph Boskin]], Rebellious Laughter: People's humor in America, page 98. Syracuse University Press, 1997.</ref> Many [[direct action]]s were often satirical and elaborate [[practical joke|prank]]s or put-ons.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yui4BgAAQBAJ&q=yippies+&pg=PA32|title=Radical Theatrics: Put-Ons, Politics, and the Sixties|publisher=[[University of Washington Press]]|author=Craig J. Peariso|date=February 17, 2015|access-date=19 July 2016|isbn=9780295995588|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233702/https://books.google.com/books?id=yui4BgAAQBAJ&q=yippies+&pg=PA32|url-status=live}}</ref> An application to levitate [[The Pentagon]]<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,841090-9,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080127151937/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,841090-9,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 27, 2008|title=Protest: The Banners of Dissent|date=Oct 27, 1967|magazine=TIME|page=9|access-date=December 26, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/the-day-they-levitated-the-pentagon/|title=The Day they Levitated the Pentagon|website=Waging NonViolence|author=Bloch, Nadine|date=October 21, 2012|access-date=2012-10-21|archive-date=October 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171015095113/https://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/the-day-they-levitated-the-pentagon/|url-status=live}}</ref> during the October [[National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam|1967 March on the Pentagon]], and a mass protest/mock levitation at the building organized by Rubin, Hoffman and company at the event, helped to set the tone for Yippie when it was established a couple of months later.<ref>Jonah Raskin, For the hell of it: The life and times of Abbie Hoffman, Page 117, University of California Press, 1996</ref>

Another famous prank just before the term "Yippie" was coined was a [[guerrilla theater]] event in New York City on August 24, 1967.  [[Abbie Hoffman]] and a group of future Yippies managed to get into a tour of the [[New York Stock Exchange]], where they threw fistfuls of real and fake US$ from the balcony of the visitors' gallery down to the [[trader (finance)|trader]]s below, some of whom booed, while others began to scramble frantically to grab the money as fast as they could.<ref>Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture: The Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman, First Edition, Perigree Books, 1980, p. 101.</ref> The visitors' gallery was closed until a glass barrier could be installed, to prevent similar incidents.

On the 40th anniversary of the NYSE event, [[CNN Business|CNN Money]] editor [[James Ledbetter]] described the now-famous incident:

{{blockquote|[The] group of pranksters began throwing handfuls of one-dollar bills over the railing, laughing the entire time. (The exact number of bills is a matter of dispute; Hoffman later wrote that it was 300, while others said no more than 30 or 40 were thrown.)

Some of the brokers, clerks and stock runners below laughed and waved; others jeered angrily and shook their fists. The bills barely had time to land on the ground before guards began removing the group from the building, but news photos had been taken and the Stock Exchange "happening" quickly slid into iconic status.

Once outside, the activists formed a circle, holding hands and chanting "Free! Free!" At one point, Hoffman stood in the center of the circle and lit the edge of a $5 bill while grinning madly, but an NYSE runner grabbed it from him, stamped on it, and said: "You're disgusting."

If the prank accomplished nothing else, it helped cement Hoffman's reputation as one of America's most outlandish and creative protestors ... the "Yippie" movement quickly became a prominent part of America's counterculture.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://money.cnn.com/2007/07/17/news/funny/abbie_hoffman/|title=The day the NYSE went Yippie|website=CNN Money|author=Ledbetter, James|access-date=23 August 2007|archive-date=July 11, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711120623/http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/17/news/funny/abbie_hoffman/|url-status=live}}</ref>}}

There was a clash with police on March 22, 1968, where a large group of countercultural youths led by the Yippies descended into [[Grand Central Terminal|Grand Central Station]] for a "Yip-In".<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/17999/|title=Radical Street Theatre and the Yippie Legacy: a Performance History of the Youth International Party, 1967–1968|author=Susanne E. Shawyer|website=University of Texas, Austin|date=May 2008|access-date=October 8, 2017|archive-date=July 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717130155/http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/17999|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll: The Rise of America's 1960s Counterculture ''(Chapter 14: From Hippie to Yippie on the Way to Revolution)'' |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]]|pages=257–270|isbn=978-1442246065|date=2015|location=Lanham, MD|author=Cottrell, Robert C.}}</ref> The night erupted into a violent clash with police that Don McNeill of ''[[The Village Voice]]'' called a "pointless confrontation in a [[box canyon]]".<ref>{{cite book|last=Gitlin|first=Todd|title=The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage|url=https://archive.org/details/sixtiesyearshope00gitl|url-access=limited|location=New York|year=1993|pages=[https://archive.org/details/sixtiesyearshope00gitl/page/n234 238]|isbn=9780553372120}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2010/04/21/nat-hentoff-on-the-police-riot-against-yippies-at-grand-central/|author=[[Nat Hentoff]]|website=The Village Voice|title=Nat Hentoff on the Police Riot Against Yippies at Grand Central (4 April 1968)|date=April 21, 2010|access-date=21 April 2010|archive-date=January 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180123190518/https://www.villagevoice.com/2010/04/21/nat-hentoff-on-the-police-riot-against-yippies-at-grand-central/|url-status=dead}}</ref> A month later, Yippies organized a "Yip-Out," a be-in style event in [[Central Park]] that went off peacefully and drew 20,000 people.<ref>Neil Hamilton, The ABC-CLIO companion to the 1960s counterculture in America, Page 340, ABC-CLIO, 1997.</ref>

In his book ''A Trumpet to Arms: Alternative Media in America'', author David Armstrong points out that the Yippie hybrid of [[performance art]],  [[Guerilla theater]] and political irreverence was often in direct conflict with the sensibility of the 60s American Left/peace movement:

<blockquote>The Yippies' unorthodox approach to revolution, which emphasized spontaneity over structure, and media blitz over community organizing, put them almost as much at odds with the rest of the left as with mainstream culture. Wrote (Jerry) Rubin in the ''[[Berkeley Barb]]'', "The worst thing you can say about a demonstration is that it is boring, and one of the reasons that the peace movement has not grown into a mass movement is that the peace movement—its literature and its events—is a bore.  Good theatre is needed to communicate revolutionary content."<ref>David Armstrong, ''A Trumpet to Arms: Alternative Media in America'', p. 120-121, [[South End Press]], Boston. 1981. {{ISBN|978-0896081932}}</ref></blockquote>

===House Un-American Activities Committee===
The [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] (HUAC) subpoenaed [[Jerry Rubin]] and [[Abbie Hoffman]] of the Yippies in 1967, and again in the aftermath of the [[1968 Democratic National Convention]]. The Yippies used media attention to make a mockery of the proceedings: Rubin came to one session dressed as an [[American Revolutionary War]] soldier, and passed out copies of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]] to people in attendance.<ref>{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mH_zVWsUzlUC&pg=PA337|title = The Party of Fear: From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History|isbn = 9780807817728|last1 = Bennett|first1 = David Harry|year = 1988| publisher=UNC Press Books |access-date = January 29, 2022|archive-date = January 29, 2022|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220129194506/https://books.google.com/books?id=mH_zVWsUzlUC&pg=PA337|url-status = live}}</ref>

On another occasion, police stopped Hoffman at the building entrance and arrested him for wearing an [[American flag]]. Hoffman quipped for the press, "I regret that I have but one shirt to give for my country", paraphrasing the last words of revolutionary patriot [[Nathan Hale]]; meanwhile Rubin, who was wearing a matching [[Viet Cong]] flag, shouted that the police were Communists for not arresting him also.<ref>Jerry Rubin, ''[http://faculty.atu.edu/cbrucker/Amst2003/Texts/Yippie.pdf A Yippie Manifesto] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181024210221/http://faculty.atu.edu/cbrucker/Amst2003/Texts/Yippie.pdf |date=October 24, 2018 }}''.</ref>

According to ''[[The Harvard Crimson]]'':

<blockquote>In the fifties, the most effective sanction was terror. Almost any publicity from HUAC meant the '[[Hollywood blacklist|blacklist]].' Without a chance to clear his name, a witness would suddenly find himself without friends and without a job. But it is not easy to see how in 1969 a HUAC blacklist could terrorize an [[Students for a Democratic Society (1960 organization)|SDS]] activist. Witnesses like Jerry Rubin have openly boasted of their contempt for American institutions. A [[subpoena]] from HUAC would be unlikely to scandalize Abbie Hoffman or his friends.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1969/2/24/by-any-other-name-pthe-house|title=By Any Other Name. Brass Tacks.|author=GEOGHEGAN, THOMAS|newspaper=The Harvard Crimson|date=24 February 1969|access-date=November 8, 2017|archive-date=November 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108111018/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1969/2/24/by-any-other-name-pthe-house/|url-status=live}}</ref></blockquote>

==Chicago '68==
{{See also|1968 Democratic National Convention protest activity}}
[[File:August 25, 1968, Hippies in Lincoln Park, Chicago.webm|thumb|right|300px|thumbtime=3:58|Anti-war demonstrators in [[Lincoln Park, Chicago]], attending a [[Yippie]] organized event, approximately five miles north of the convention center. The band [[MC5]] can be seen playing.]]

Yippie theatrics culminated at the [[1968 Democratic National Convention]] in Chicago. YIP planned a six-day Festival of Life – a celebration of the [[counterculture]] and a protest against the state of the nation.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QUAeoaEbzPkC&q=yippies&pg=PA12|title=1968: Art and Politics in Chicago|publisher=[[DePaul University]] Art Museum|editor=Patricia Kelly|date=2008|isbn=978-0978907440|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233706/https://books.google.com/books?id=QUAeoaEbzPkC&q=yippies&pg=PA12|url-status=live}}</ref> This was supposed to counter the "Convention of Death." This promised to be "the blending of pot and politics into a political grass leaves movement – a cross-fertilization of the hippie and [[New Left]] philosophies."<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.grin.com/en/e-book/324245/democracy-in-america-yippie-guerilla-theater-and-the-reinvigoration-of|title=Democracy in America, Yippie! Guerilla Theater and the Reinvigoration of the American Democratic Process During the Cold War|publisher=Syracuse University|author=Kayla Schultz|date=2008|access-date=October 15, 2017|archive-date=October 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171015095145/http://www.grin.com/en/e-book/324245/democracy-in-america-yippie-guerilla-theater-and-the-reinvigoration-of|url-status=live}}</ref> Yippies' sensational statements before the convention were part of the theatrics, including a [[tongue-in-cheek]] threat to put [[LSD]] in Chicago's water supply. "We will fuck on the beaches! ... We demand the Politics of Ecstasy! ... Abandon the Creeping Meatball! ... And all the time 'Yippie! Chicago – August 25–30.'" First on a list of Yippie demands: "An immediate end to the war in Vietnam."<ref>[[Norman Mailer]], ''[[Miami and the Siege of Chicago]],'' page 137. Signet Books : [[New American Library]], 1968. {{isbn|978-0451073105}}</ref><ref name=Zunes>{{cite web|url=https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/the-us-anti-vietnam-war-movement-1964-1973/|website=International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC)|title=The US Anti-Vietnam War Movement (1964–1973)|author=[[Stephen Zunes]], Jesse Laird|date=January 2010|access-date=December 15, 2017|archive-date=December 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171216034514/https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/the-us-anti-vietnam-war-movement-1964-1973/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Yippie organizers hoped that well-known musicians would participate in the [[1968 Democratic National Convention protest activity|Festival of Life]] and draw a crowd of tens if not hundreds of thousands from across the country. The city of Chicago refused to issue any permits for the festival and most musicians withdrew from the project. Of the rock bands who had agreed to perform, only the [[MC5]] came to Chicago to play and their set was cut short by a clash between the audience of a couple thousand and police. [[Phil Ochs]] and several other singer-songwriters also performed during the festival.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo3617456.html|author=David Farber|title=Chicago '68|pages=177–178|publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]]|date=October 17, 1994|isbn=978-0226238012|access-date=December 24, 2018|archive-date=September 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923120414/https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo3617456.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In response to the Festival of Life and other [[anti-war]] demonstrations during the [[1968 Democratic National Convention|Democratic convention]], Chicago police repeatedly clashed with protesters, as many millions of viewers watched the extensive TV coverage of the events. On the evening of August 28 the police attacked the protesters in front of [[Hilton Chicago#The Conrad Hilton|the Conrad Hilton hotel]] as the demonstrators chanted "[[The whole world is watching]]".<ref>{{cite book|last=Miller|first=James|title=Democracy is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|year=1994|pages=304|isbn=978-0674197251}}</ref> This was a "police riot," concluded the [[U.S. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence|US National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence]],<ref name="Frankel">{{cite book|author=[[Max Frankel]]|url=|title=The Walker Report, ''Rights in Conflict: The violent confrontation between demonstrators and police in the parks and streets of Chicago during the week of the Democratic National Convention''|date=1968|publisher=[[Bantam Books]]|isbn=978-0525191797|page=5}}</ref> stating:<blockquote>"On the part of the police there was enough wild club swinging, enough cries of hatred, enough gratuitous beating to make the conclusion inescapable that individual policemen, and lots of them, committed violent acts far in excess of the requisite force for crowd dispersal or arrest."<ref name=Frankel /></blockquote>

===The conspiracy trial===

{{See also|Chicago Seven}}

Following the convention, eight protesters were charged with conspiracy to incite the riots. Their 
trial, which lasted five months, was heavily publicized. The [[Chicago Seven]] represented a cross-section of the [[New Left]], including [[Abbie Hoffman]] and [[Jerry Rubin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gq.com/story/the-mess-we-made|title=The Mess We Made: An Oral History of the '68 Convention|website=GQ.com|author=Goldstein, Sarah|date=August 12, 2008|access-date=2008-08-12|archive-date=October 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009092348/https://www.gq.com/story/the-mess-we-made|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|isbn=9781565848337|author=Jon Wiener, [[Jules Feiffer]]|title=Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven|publisher=[[The New Press]]|date=August 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://flashbak.com/the-people-v-the-chicago-seven-in-photos-when-yippies-scared-the-usa-8609/|author=Anorak|title=The People v The Chicago Seven In Photos: When Yippies Scared The USA|website=Flashbak|date=December 17, 2013|publisher=ALUM MEDIA LTD|access-date=17 December 2013|archive-date=February 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200213120535/https://flashbak.com/the-people-v-the-chicago-seven-in-photos-when-yippies-scared-the-usa-8609/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In his book, ''American Fun: Four Centuries of Joyous Revolt'', John Beckman writes:

<blockquote>Never mind ''[[Hair (musical)|Hair]]'', the so-called Chicago Eight (then Seven) trial was the countercultural performance of the sixties. [[Guerrilla theater]] stared down courtroom farce to decide the civil dispute of the era: the Movement vs. the Establishment.  The eight defendants seemed finically chosen to represent the world of dissent: [[Students for a Democratic Society|SDS]] leaders [[Rennie Davis]] and [[Tom Hayden]] (who had authored "The [[Port Huron Statement]]"); graduate students [[Lee Weiner]] and [[John Froines]]; portly fifty-four-year-old [[Christian socialism|Christian socialist]] [[David Dellinger]]; Yippies Rubin and Hoffman; and—briefly--[[Black Panther Party|Black Panther]] [[Bobby Seale]]. "Conspire, hell," Hoffman quipped. "We couldn't agree on lunch."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9ahdAAAAQBAJ&q=john+beckman+froines+yippies&pg=PT290|title=American Fun: Four Centuries of Joyous Revolt|author=John Beckman|publisher=[[Pantheon Books]], New York|date=2014|isbn=978-0-307-90818-6|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233707/https://books.google.com/books?id=9ahdAAAAQBAJ&q=john+beckman+froines+yippies&pg=PT290|url-status=live}}</ref></blockquote>

Several other Yippies – including [[Stew Albert]], Wolfe Lowenthal, Brad Fox and [[Robin Palmer]] – were among another 18 activists named as "unindicted co-conspirators" in the case.<ref>David T. Dellinger, Judy Clavir and John Spitzer, The Conspiracy Trial, page 601. Bobbs-Merrill, 1970.</ref> While five of the defendants were initially convicted of crossing state lines to incite a riot, all convictions were soon reversed in appeal court. Defendants Hoffman and Rubin became popular authors and public speakers, spreading Yippie militancy and comedy wherever they appeared. When Hoffman appeared on ''[[The Merv Griffin Show]]'', for example, he wore a shirt with an American flag design, prompting [[CBS]] to black out his image when the show aired.<ref>Abbie Hoffman, Soon to be a Major Motion Picture, page 170. Perigee Books, 1980.</ref>

==The Yippie movement==
The Youth International Party quickly spread beyond Rubin, Hoffman and the other founders. YIP had chapters all over the US and in other countries, with particularly active groups in New York City, [[Vancouver]], [[Washington, D.C.]], Detroit, [[Milwaukee]], Los Angeles, [[Tucson]], [[Houston]], [[Austin, Texas|Austin]], [[Columbus, Ohio|Columbus]], [[Dayton]], Chicago, [[Berkeley California|Berkeley]], [[San Francisco]] and [[Madison, Wisconsin|Madison]].<ref name=Wachsberger>{{cite book|url=http://www.azenphonypress.com/books/ballad.html|title=The Ballad of Ken and Emily: or, Tales from the Counterculture|isbn=978-0945531012|author=Ken Wachsberger|publisher=Azenphony Press|date=1997|access-date=January 5, 2014|archive-date=July 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728181909/http://www.azenphonypress.com/books/ballad.html|url-status=live}}</ref> There were YIP conferences through the 1970s, beginning with a "New Nation Conference" in Madison, Wisconsin in 1971.<ref>The New Yippie Book Collective, ''Blacklisted News: Secret Histories from Chicago to 1984'', Page 16. Bleecker Publishing, 1983.</ref>

On the final day of the Madison conference, April 4, 1971, hundreds of riot police broke up a block party organized by local Yippies to cap the event, resulting in a street clash between Yippies and police.<ref>"Yippies Pelt Police with Eggs, Rocks." April 5, 1971, ''The Rock Hill Herald''.</ref>

===Street protests===
During an anti-war protest in Washington, D.C., on November 15, 1969, East Coast Yippies led thousands of youths in the storming of the [[United States Department of Justice|Justice Department]] building.<ref>Kifner, John. "Tear Gas Repels Radicals' Attack." ''New York Times'', 16 November 1969</ref>

On August 6, 1970, L.A. Yippies invaded [[Disneyland]], hoisting the New Nation flag at City Hall and taking over [[Tom Sawyer's Island]]. While riot police confronted the Yippies, the theme park was closed early for only the second time in the park's history (the first being shortly after the [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|assassination of President Kennedy]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Blacklisted News: Secret Histories from Chicago to 1984|editor=The New Yippie Book Collective|publisher=Bleecker Publishing|year=1983|pages=459}}</ref>). As many as 23 of the 200 Yippies attending were arrested.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nightflight.com/august-6-1970-the-day-the-yippies-invaded-disneyland/|title=August 6, 1970, the Day the Yippies invaded Disneyland|website=NightFlight|author=Thomas, Bryan|access-date=2015-08-06|archive-date=October 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006062331/http://nightflight.com/august-6-1970-the-day-the-yippies-invaded-disneyland/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Vancouver Yippies invaded the US border town of [[Blaine, Washington|Blaine]], Washington, on May 9, 1970, to protest [[Richard Nixon]]'s [[Cambodian Campaign|invasion of Cambodia]] and [[Kent State shooting|the shooting of students]] at [[Kent State]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Blacklisted News: Secret Histories from Chicago to 1984|editor=The New Yippie Book Collective|publisher=Bleecker Publishing|year=1983|pages=457}}</ref>

Columbus Yippies were charged with inciting the rioting that occurred in the city on May 11, 1972, in response to [[Operation Custom Tailor|Nixon's mining of North Vietnam's Haiphong harbor]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Blacklisted News: Secret Histories from Chicago to 1984|editor=The New Yippie Book Collective|publisher=Bleecker Publishing|year=1983|pages=403}}</ref> They were acquitted.

YIP was a member of the coalition of anti-Vietnam War activists<ref name=Zunes /> who, over several days in early May 1971, tried to shut down the US government by occupying intersections and bridges in Washington, D.C. The [[1971 May Day Protests|May Day protests]] resulted in the largest [[mass arrest]] in American history.<ref>Lester Friedman, American cinema of the 1970s: themes and variations, Page 49, NJ Rutgers University Press, 2007</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1971/06/17/a-special-supplement-mayday-the-case-for-civil-dis/|title=Mayday: The Case for Civil Disobedience|author=Chomsky, Noam|magazine=[[The New York Review of Books]]|date=17 June 1971|access-date=January 9, 2018|archive-date=January 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180110054904/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1971/06/17/a-special-supplement-mayday-the-case-for-civil-dis/|url-status=live}}</ref>

A frequent 'national' complaint among Yippies was that the New York 'central HQ' chapter acted as if other chapters did not exist and kept them out of the decision-making process.  At one point, at a YIP conference in Ohio in 1972, Yippies voted to 'exclude' Abbie and Jerry as official spokespersons from the party, since they had become too famous and rich.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/28/archives/yippies-exclude-hoffman-and-rubin-as-spokesmen.html|title=Yippies Exclude Hoffman And Rubin as Spokesmen|website=New York Times|date=28 November 1972|access-date=December 20, 2017|archive-date=October 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013120929/http://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/28/archives/yippies-exclude-hoffman-and-rubin-as-spokesmen.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1972, Yippies and [[Zippie]]s (a younger YIP radical breakaway faction whose "guiding spirit" was [[Tom Forcade]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fb4oGwAACAAJ|title=We are Not McGovernable!: What Cronkite Didn't Tell You about the '72 Democratic Convention|author=Steve Conliff|publisher=Youth International Party|date=1972|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233726/https://books.google.com/books?id=fb4oGwAACAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=zip>{{cite web|url=https://thestonedsociety.com/featured/dana-beal-hippies-yippies-zippies-beatnicks/|title=Hippies, Yippies, Zippies and Beatnicks – A Conversation with Dana Beal|author=Arnett, Andrew|website=TheStonedSociety.com|publisher=The Stoned Society|access-date=21 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221230442/https://thestonedsociety.com/featured/dana-beal-hippies-yippies-zippies-beatnicks/|archive-date=December 21, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://thevillager.com/2018/02/25/yippies-vs-zippies-new-jerry-rubin-book-reveals-70s-counterculture-feud/|title=Yippies vs. Zippies: New Rubin book reveals '70s counterculture feud|author=Reinholz, Mary|website=TheVillager.com|access-date=25 February 2018|archive-date=March 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180318182641/http://thevillager.com/2018/02/25/yippies-vs-zippies-new-jerry-rubin-book-reveals-70s-counterculture-feud/|url-status=live}}</ref> staged protests at the [[1972 Republican National Convention|Republican]] and [[1972 Democratic National Convention|Democratic Convention]]s in [[Miami Beach]].<ref name=Oliver /><ref>The New Yippie Book Collective (eds.), ''Blacklisted News: Secret Histories from Chicago to 1984'', page 354. Bleecker Publishing, 1983.</ref><ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FrEqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=k2YEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2989,3327051&dq=dana+beal&hl=en Marijuana Smoke-in Held Outside Convention Hall] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408181309/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FrEqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=k2YEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2989,3327051&dq=dana+beal&hl=en |date=April 8, 2019 }}. July 10, 1972. ''[[Sarasota Herald-Tribune]]''.</ref> Some of the Miami protests were larger and more militant than the ones in Chicago in 1968. After Miami, the Zippies evolved back into Yippies.<ref>Abbie Hoffman, Soon to be a Major Motion Picture, page 278. Perigee Books, 1980.</ref>
[[File:Smokeinposter.jpg|thumb|Poster advertising Yippie-sponsored Smoke-In at [[Ohio State University]], April 29, 1978.]]
In 1973, Yippies marched on the Manhattan home of [[Watergate]] conspirator [[John N. Mitchell|John Mitchell]]:

<blockquote>... five hundred die-hard Yippies staged one last march on the Mitchell home, no longer the Watergate but a grand apartment building on Manhattan's [[Fifth Avenue]].  "Free [[Martha Mitchell]]!" they chanted. "Fuck John!" When the Mitchells finally appeared at the window to see what all the commotion was about, the stoners cherished their last "eye-to-eyeball confrontation with Mr. Law 'n' Order." To commemorate the moment, they placed a giant marijuana joint on the Mitchells' doorstep.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fHIGQTGemnAC&q=steve+conliff+yippies&pg=PA113|title=The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate|author=[[James Rosen (journalist)|James Rosen]]|publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]]|date=May 2008|isbn=978-0385508643|location=New York|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233726/https://books.google.com/books?id=fHIGQTGemnAC&q=steve+conliff+yippies&pg=PA113|url-status=live}}</ref></blockquote>

Yippies regularly protested at  [[United States presidential inauguration|US presidential inauguration]]s,<ref name=CrimethInc>{{cite web|url=https://crimethinc.com/2017/01/16/whoever-they-vote-for-we-are-ungovernable-a-history-of-anarchist-counter-inaugural-protest|title=Whoever They Vote For, We Are Ungovernable: A History of Anarchist Counter-Inaugural Protest|author=CrimethInc, Ex-Workers Collective|website=CrimethInc|date=January 16, 2017 |access-date=16 January 2017|archive-date=November 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116183915/https://crimethinc.com/2017/01/16/whoever-they-vote-for-we-are-ungovernable-a-history-of-anarchist-counter-inaugural-protest|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1981/1/21/amid-washingtons-pomp-a-counter-inaugural-pwashington-less/|title=Amid Washington's Pomp, a 'Counter-Inaugural'|website=The Harvard Crimson|author=Cooperman, Alan|date=21 January 1981|access-date=January 10, 2018|archive-date=October 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028144038/https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1981/1/21/amid-washingtons-pomp-a-counter-inaugural-pwashington-less/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://pictures.abebooks.com/BLOLBC/md/md22649082422.jpg|title=POSTER: Counter-Inaugural Ball & Protests|publisher=Youth International Party|website=AbeBooks.com|date=1981|access-date=January 22, 2018|archive-date=February 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200216190848/https://pictures.abebooks.com/BLOLBC/md/md22649082422.jpg|url-status=live}}</ref> with a particularly strong presence at the 1973 inauguration of [[Richard Nixon]].<ref name=CrimethInc /> Yippies also demonstrated at the [[1980 Republican National Convention]] in Detroit,<ref name=Deadhead /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/scl/x-lpf.1566/LPF1566?auth=scl;g=um-ic;lasttype=boolean;lastview=reslist;resnum=17;size=50;sort=scl_wt;start=1;subview=detail;view=entry;rgn1=ic_all;q1=scl|title=PHOTO: Yippies for Reagan (Republican National Convention 1980)|author=Berry, Millard|website=[[Labadie Collection]], [[University of Michigan]]|publisher=[[Fifth Estate (periodical)|Fifth Estate]]|date=July 1980|access-date=April 15, 2018|archive-date=February 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215104137/https://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/scl/x-lpf.1566/LPF1566?auth=scl;g=um-ic;lasttype=boolean;lastview=reslist;resnum=17;size=50;sort=scl_wt;start=1;subview=detail;view=entry;rgn1=ic_all;q1=scl|url-status=live}}</ref> as well as the subsequent [[1984 Republican National Convention]] in Dallas,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nwo.media.xs2.net/photos/index.html|title=Yippies protest President Reagan in Dallas 1984|website=Yippie archives|publisher=Youth International Party|date=August 1984|access-date=January 20, 2018|archive-date=May 26, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120526193644/http://nwo.media.xs2.net/photos/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://pictures.abebooks.com/BLOLBC/md/md22649082433.jpg|title=POSTER: Don't Let Reagan Take You for a Ride!|publisher=Youth International Party|website=AbeBooks.com|date=1984|access-date=January 20, 2018|archive-date=February 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226002754/https://pictures.abebooks.com/BLOLBC/md/md22649082433.jpg|url-status=live}}</ref> where 99 Yippies were arrested:

{{blockquote|DALLAS, Aug 22 — Ninety-nine demonstrators were arrested today outside the Republican National Convention after a ''Corporate War Chest Tour'' through the downtown area in which they intimidated shoppers, splattered paint and burned an American flag.

The demonstrators, members of the Youth International Party, or Yippies, completed the spree through downtown by jumping into the reflecting pool at City Hall in the sweltering Dallas heat.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/23/us/99-arrested-in-dallas-protest.html|title=99 ARRESTED IN DALLAS PROTEST|website=The New York Times|date=23 August 1984|access-date=January 29, 2018|archive-date=January 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120124832/http://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/23/us/99-arrested-in-dallas-protest.html|url-status=live}}</ref>}}

=== Smoke-ins <span class="anchor" id="Smoke-in"></span>===
{{Further|Smoke-in}}
[[File:PittsburghSmokeIn3.JPG|thumb|Poster advertising Yippie-sponsored [[Pittsburgh]] Smoke-In, [[Schenley Park]], July 2, 1977]]
Yippies organized [[marijuana]] "smoke-ins" across North America through the 1970s and into the 1980s. The first YIP smoke-in was attended by 25,000 in Washington, D.C. on July 4, 1970.<ref name=IT /><ref>{{cite book|title=Blacklisted News: Secret Histories from Chicago to 1984|editor=The New Yippie Book Collective|publisher=Bleecker Publishing|year=1983|pages=4}}</ref> There was a culture clash when many of the hippie protesters strolled en masse into the nearby "Honor America Day" festivities with [[Billy Graham]] and [[Bob Hope]].<ref name="A. Yippie">{{cite web|url=https://cannabisparade.org/history/|title=A Brief History of the NYC Cannabis Parade|author=A. Yippie|website=CannabisParade.org|access-date=October 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010005429/https://cannabisparade.org/history/|archive-date=October 10, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On August 7, 1971, a Yippie smoke-in in Vancouver was attacked by police, resulting in the [[Gastown Riot]], one of the most famous protests in Canadian history.<ref>Odam, Jes, "Police charge yippie plot," ''Vancouver Sun'', 1 October 1971</ref>

The annual July 4 Yippie smoke-in in Washington, D.C., became a counterculture tradition.<ref name=DeAngelo /><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bfPuzbXZdJAC&q=yippie+concerts&pg=PA42|title=Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital|author=Mark Andersen, Mark Jenkins|date=August 2003|publisher=[[Akashic Books]]|location=Brooklyn, NY, USA|isbn=978-1888451443|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233727/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dance_of_Days/bfPuzbXZdJAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=yippie+concerts&pg=PA42&printsec=frontcover|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1978/07/05/demonstration-by-yippies-is-mostly-quiet/910e0221-0ea2-437c-9926-44a7e2aec481/|title=Demonstration By Yippies Is Mostly Quiet|author=Martin Weil, Keith B. Richberg|newspaper=Washington Post|date=5 July 1978|access-date=December 15, 2017|archive-date=December 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215221150/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1978/07/05/demonstration-by-yippies-is-mostly-quiet/910e0221-0ea2-437c-9926-44a7e2aec481/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/07/04/yippies-turn-on/fe69edca-41dd-4fa1-ade6-f9436d741c20/|title=Yippies Turn On|author=Harris, Art|newspaper=Washington Post|date=4 July 1979|access-date=December 15, 2017|archive-date=December 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171216034512/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/07/04/yippies-turn-on/fe69edca-41dd-4fa1-ade6-f9436d741c20/|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:Washdcsmokein1977.png|thumb|Yippie banner displayed at [[Washington, D.C.]] Smoke-In, July 4, 1977.]] [[File:Smokeinvan.png|thumb|Yippie van makes a few passes by the July 4th Smoke-In, [[Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.|Lafayette Park]], Washington, D.C., 1977.]]

===Alternative culture===

Yippies organized alternative institutions in their counterculture communities. In [[Tucson]], Yippies operated a free store;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/04-27-95/curr1.htm|title=I Remember Jerry|author=Miller, Tom|publisher=[[Tucson Weekly]]|date=27 April 1995|access-date=October 8, 2017|archive-date=March 11, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311224448/http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/04-27-95/curr1.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> in [[Vancouver]], Yippies established the People's Defense Fund to provide legal help for the often-harassed hippie community; in [[Milwaukee]], Yippies helped launch the city's first [[Food cooperative|food co-op]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Blacklisted News: Secret Histories from Chicago to 1984|editor=The New Yippie Book Collective|publisher=Bleecker Publishing|year=1983|pages=656}}</ref>

Many Yippies were involved in the underground press. Some were the editors of major underground newspapers or alternative magazines, including Yippies [[Abe Peck]] (''[[Chicago Seed]]''),<ref>Jonah Raskin, For the Hell of It, page 132. University of California Press, 1996.</ref>  Jeff Shero Nightbyrd (New York's ''[[Rat (newspaper)|Rat]]'' and ''[[Austin Sun]]''),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theragblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/back-in-business-of-stirring-up-trouble.html|title=What Ever Happened To The New Generation?|website=TheRagBlog|author=[[Thorne Webb Dreyer]]|date=December 30, 2007|access-date=2007-12-30|archive-date=July 8, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708070326/http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/back-in-business-of-stirring-up-trouble.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Paul Krassner]] (''[[The Realist]]''),<ref name=Krassner/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/generationonfire00kiss_0/page/64|isbn=978-0813124162|author=Kisseloff, Jeff|title=Generation on Fire: Voices of Protest From The 1960s : An oral history|page=[https://archive.org/details/generationonfire00kiss_0/page/64 64]|publisher=[[University Press of Kentucky]]|date=January 2007}}</ref>  Robin Morgan (''[[Ms. (magazine)|Ms. magazine]]''),<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaoffe0000unse/page/350|author=[[Lorraine Code]]|title=Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories|isbn=978-0415308854|page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaoffe0000unse/page/350 350]|publisher=[[Routledge]]|date=2000}}</ref> Steve Conliff (''Purple Berries'', ''Sour Grapes''<ref name=SOUR>[https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-59mFy91Uz4A/UJAHPxOHCpI/AAAAAAAAIUo/NRnTVgI35l8/s1600/past3%2B031.JPG SOUR GRAPES cover] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151115070542/http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-59mFy91Uz4A/UJAHPxOHCpI/AAAAAAAAIUo/NRnTVgI35l8/s1600/past3%2B031.JPG |date=November 15, 2015 }} ''Youth International Party'', Columbus, OH, 1974</ref> and ''[[Columbus Free Press]])'',<ref>{{cite book|author=Steve Abbott|editor=Ken Wachsberger|title=''Karl and Groucho's Marxist Dance'' : Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press, Part 2 (Voices from the Underground)|date=April 1, 2012|isbn=978-1611860313|publisher=[[Michigan State University Press]]}}</ref> Bob Mercer (''[[The Georgia Straight]]'' and ''Yellow Journal''),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rickmcgrath.com/georgia_straight/staffers.html |title=Georgia Straight Staff 1967-1972 |access-date=January 5, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222025442/http://www.rickmcgrath.com/georgia_straight/staffers.html |archive-date=February 22, 2012 }}</ref> Henry Weissborn (''ULTRA''),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wilddogzine.com/2014/02/21/houston-underground-space-city-direct-action-and-ultra-zine-1978/|title=HOUSTON UNDERGROUND: SPACE CITY!, DIRECT ACTION, AND ULTRA ZINE (1978)|website=Wild Dog Zine|date=February 21, 2014 |access-date=2014-02-21|archive-date=October 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009092658/https://wilddogzine.com/2014/02/21/houston-underground-space-city-direct-action-and-ultra-zine-1978/|url-status=usurped}}</ref> James Retherford (''[[The Rag]]''), Mayer Vishner (''[[LA Weekly]]''),<ref name=Vishner /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/columns/2013-09-20/letters-at-3am-he-took-the-cat-to-texas/|title=Letters at 3AM: He Took the Cat to Texas; this is the final story in the many-storied life of Mayer Vishner|author=Ventura, Michael|website=Austin Chronicle|access-date=2013-09-30|archive-date=October 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008232405/https://www.austinchronicle.com/columns/2013-09-20/letters-at-3am-he-took-the-cat-to-texas/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://thevillager.com/2013/09/26/mayer-vishner-64-yippie-antiwar-activist-editor/|title=Mayer Vishner, 64, Yippie, antiwar activist, editor|author=Amateau, Albert|website=The Villager|date=September 26, 2013|access-date=26 September 2013|archive-date=April 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180415124858/http://thevillager.com/2013/09/26/mayer-vishner-64-yippie-antiwar-activist-editor/|url-status=live}}</ref> Matthew Landy Steen and Stew Albert (''[[Berkeley Barb]]'' and ''[[Berkeley Tribe]]''),<ref>^ a b c library of congress.gov/chronicling america/berkeley tribe
^ a b c University of Michigan.gov/archives/underground newspapers/microfilm collection</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2015-08-11/sex-drugs-revolution-50-years-barbarians-gather-recall|title=Sex, Drugs, Revolution: 50 Years On, Barbarians Gather to Recall The Berkeley Barb|website=California Magazine|author=Joseph, Pat|date=July 30, 2015|access-date=2015-08-11|archive-date=October 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008232318/https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2015-08-11/sex-drugs-revolution-50-years-barbarians-gather-recall|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Tom Forcade]] (''[[Underground Press Syndicate]]'' and ''[[High Times]]'')<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JroUDAAAQBAJ&q=tom+forcade|title=Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America|author=John McMillian|isbn=978-0195319927|date=February 17, 2011|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|pages=120–126|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233728/https://books.google.com/books?id=JroUDAAAQBAJ&q=tom+forcade|url-status=live}}</ref> and Gabrielle Schang (''Alternative Media'').<ref>Jonah Raskin, For the Hell of It, University of California Press, Page 228, 1996.</ref> New York Yippie [[Coca Crystal]] hosted the popular cable TV program ''If I Can't Dance You Can Keep Your Revolution.''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://unconscious-and-irrational.blogspot.com/2009/03/coca-crystals-dance-revolution.html|title=Coca Crystal's Dance Revolution|website=Unconscious and Irrational|date=21 March 2009|access-date=October 6, 2017|archive-date=February 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209090659/http://unconscious-and-irrational.blogspot.com/2009/03/coca-crystals-dance-revolution.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Yippies were active in alternative music and movies. Singer-songwriters [[Phil Ochs]] and [[David Peel (musician)|David Peel]] were Yippies. "I helped design the party, formulate the idea of what Yippie was going to be, in the early part of 1968," Ochs testified at the Chicago Eight trial.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.famous-trials.com/chicago8/1331-ochs|title=The Chicago Eight Trial : Testimony of Philip David Ochs|website=Famous Trials|access-date=October 6, 2017|archive-date=October 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007023410/http://www.famous-trials.com/chicago8/1331-ochs|url-status=live}}</ref>

The strange, legendary cult film ''Medicine Ball Caravan'' (partly financed by [[Tom Forcade]]),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rickouellettereelandrock.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/the-strange-forgotten-saga-of-the-medicine-ball-caravan/|title=The Strange, Forgotten Saga of the Medicine Ball Caravan|author=Ouellette, Rick|website=REEL AND ROCK|date=March 3, 2013|access-date=2013-03-03|archive-date=October 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007070251/https://rickouellettereelandrock.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/the-strange-forgotten-saga-of-the-medicine-ball-caravan/|url-status=live}}</ref> chronicled Yippie drop-outs and a variety of other fascinating and dynamic characters of the era.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/26/archives/medicine-ball-caravan-bowsfreewheeling-bus-is-followed-across-us.html|title=Medicine Ball Caravan Bows : Free-Wheeling Bus Is Followed Across U.S.|website=[[The New York Times]]|author=Greenspun, Roger|date=August 26, 1971|access-date=April 12, 2020|archive-date=April 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412010012/https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/26/archives/medicine-ball-caravan-bowsfreewheeling-bus-is-followed-across-us.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ultimateclassicrock.com/medicine-ball-caravan/|title=Revisiting 'Medicine Ball Caravan,' the 'Woodstock on Wheels'|website=Ultimate Classic Rock|author=Mastropolo, Frank|date=August 5, 2015 |access-date=2015-08-05|archive-date=September 30, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170930181237/http://ultimateclassicrock.com/medicine-ball-caravan/|url-status=live}}</ref> The movie title was later controversially changed to "We Have Come for your Daughters".<ref>{{IMDb title|id=0067414|title=We Have Come For Your Daughters}}</ref>

Radical musicians usually found enthusiastic audiences at Yippie-sponsored events and frequently offered to play. YIP-affiliated [[John Sinclair (poet)|John Sinclair]] managed [[Detroit]]'s proto-punk band the [[MC5]],<ref>[[Julie Burchill]], Tony Parsons, ''"The Boy Looked at Johnny": The Obituary of Rock and Roll'', p.19-20, [[Pluto Press]], London, UK. 1978 {{isbn|9780861040308}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/mar/03/john-sinclair-rock-revolutionary-mc5-interview|title=John Sinclair: 'We wanted to kick ass – and raise consciousness'|website=The Guardian|author=O'Hagan, Sean|date=March 3, 2014|access-date=2014-03-03|archive-date=April 29, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429223619/http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/mar/03/john-sinclair-rock-revolutionary-mc5-interview|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/article/13019737/yippie-yi-yay|title=Yippie Yi Yay|website=Washington City Paper|author=Tracey, Patrick|date=31 March 2000|access-date=October 9, 2017|archive-date=October 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009194110/http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/article/13019737/yippie-yi-yay|url-status=live}}</ref> who played in [[Lincoln Park]] during protests at the [[1968 Democratic National Convention protest activity|1968 Democratic National Convention]]. In 1970, [[Pete Seeger]] played a [[Vancouver]] Yippie rally against construction of a highway through [[Jericho Beach#Jericho Beach Park|Jericho Beach Park]].<ref>Sarti, Bob, "The day I met Pete Seeger," ''The Oystercatcher'', May Day 2014.</ref> The first-ever concert by the influential and iconic proto-punk band the [[New York Dolls]], was a Yippie benefit to raise funds to pay legal fees for one of [[Dana Beal]]'s marijuana arrests in the 1970s.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m8WqcRw9zzwC&q=dana+beal&pg=PA27|title=I, Doll: Life and Death with the New York Dolls|author=Arthur Kane|publisher=[[Chicago Review Press]], Chicago, IL|page=27|date=2009|isbn=978-1-55652-941-2|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233729/https://books.google.com/books?id=m8WqcRw9zzwC&q=dana+beal&pg=PA27|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Youth International Party founded the US branch of the [[Rock Against Racism]] movement in 1979.<ref>Alice Torbush, Daisy Deadhead, ''Rock Against Racism USA - Tour Dates & Concert Calender'', Overthrow/Yipster Times, p. 12-14, April 1979 [https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A5t-Lv6hL0I/WgMo5mG3cfI/AAAAAAAANcs/NHUUwFOF0yQHPgZQp8HLz2g3ZaBv8plgQCLcBGAs/s1600/overthrow.png Illustration : ''Overthrow'' cover: ROCK AGAINST RACISM issue, April 1979] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308144254/https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A5t-Lv6hL0I/WgMo5mG3cfI/AAAAAAAANcs/NHUUwFOF0yQHPgZQp8HLz2g3ZaBv8plgQCLcBGAs/s1600/overthrow.png |date=March 8, 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://wilddogzine.com/2014/01/23/grass-roots-activism-rock-against-racism-1979/|title=GRASS ROOTS ACTIVISM, ROCK AGAINST RACISM (1979)|website=Wild Dog Zine|access-date=2014-01-23|archive-date=October 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009041415/https://wilddogzine.com/2014/01/23/grass-roots-activism-rock-against-racism-1979/|url-status=usurped}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://wilddogzine.com/2016/02/05/anarcho-punks-organize-first-rock-against-racism-concert-at-uh-1979/|title=ANARCHO-PUNKS ORGANIZE FIRST ROCK AGAINST RACISM CONCERT AT UH (1979)|website=Wild Dog Zine|date=February 5, 2016 |access-date=2016-02-05|archive-date=October 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009041733/https://wilddogzine.com/2016/02/05/anarcho-punks-organize-first-rock-against-racism-concert-at-uh-1979/|url-status=usurped}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hyped2death.com/screamingurge.html|title=Screaming Urge : Impulse Control|author=Baby Lindy|website=Hyped to Death CD archives|access-date=20 January 2018|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054832/http://www.hyped2death.com/screamingurge.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brianwebster.com/RARUSA.html|title=Rock Against Racism USA|author=Webster, Brian|website=BrianWebster.com|publisher=Brian Webster and Associates|access-date=9 April 2018|archive-date=December 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161218132228/http://brianwebster.com/RARUSA.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://signs-of-life-nyc.blogspot.com/2013/03/rock-against-racism-w-nausea-false.html|title=Rock Against Racism w/NAUSEA, FALSE PROPHETS @ Central Park Bandshell 05.01.88|website=Signs Of Life NYC|date=March 31, 2013|access-date=31 March 2013|archive-date=April 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180410072321/http://signs-of-life-nyc.blogspot.com/2013/03/rock-against-racism-w-nausea-false.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Weinberg /> Rock Against Racism USA later morphed into the critically acclaimed, Yippie-organized, widely recognized national Rock Against Reagan tour in 1983.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kA94CAAAQBAJ&q=yippies+punk+rock&pg=PA19|title=Punk in NYC's Lower East Side 1981–1991: Scene History Series, Volume 1|author=Ben Nadler|publisher=Microcosm Publishing|location=Portland, Oregon, USA|date=29 November 2014|isbn=9781621069218|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233729/https://books.google.com/books?id=kA94CAAAQBAJ&q=yippies+punk+rock&pg=PA19|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FSCICwAAQBAJ&q=Rock+Against+reagan+yippies&pg=PT102|title=Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism|author=L.A. Kauffman|publisher=[[Verso Books]]|location=New York|date=2017|isbn=978-1784784096|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233731/https://books.google.com/books?id=FSCICwAAQBAJ&q=Rock+Against+reagan+yippies&pg=PT102|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://pictures.abebooks.com/BLOLBC/md/md22649082421.jpg|title=POSTER: ROCK AGAINST REAGAN - Clark Park, Detroit|publisher=Youth International Party|website=AbeBooks.com|date=1983|access-date=January 22, 2018|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233753/https://pictures.abebooks.com/BLOLBC/md/md22649082421.jpg|url-status=live}}</ref> Well-known bands on the tour included [[Michelle Shocked]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gJX3jzxQYbMC&q=yippies+rock+against+racism&pg=PA52|title=ANTIHERO : The newest insider at PolyGram, folk singer Michelle Shocked, on working for change through music, on the inside and outside|website=SPIN archives|publisher=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|author=Shocked, Michelle|date=August 1989|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233803/https://books.google.com/books?id=gJX3jzxQYbMC&q=yippies+rock+against+racism&pg=PA52|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[Dead Kennedys]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dallasobserver.com/music/echoes-and-reverberations-dead-kennedys-rock-against-politics-7072574|title=Echoes and Reverberations: Dead Kennedys "Rock Against Politics"|website=Dallas Observer|author=Liles, Jeff|access-date=2008-10-30|archive-date=October 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014082209/http://www.dallasobserver.com/music/echoes-and-reverberations-dead-kennedys-rock-against-politics-7072574|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[Crucifucks]], [[MDC (band)|MDC]],<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W8zTDgAAQBAJ&q=Rock+Against+reagan+yippies&pg=PT80|title=MDC: Memoir from a Damaged Civilization: Stories of Punk, Fear, and Redemption|author=Dave Dictor|publisher=Manic D Press|date=22 May 2016|isbn=978-1933149998|location=San Francisco|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233756/https://books.google.com/books?id=W8zTDgAAQBAJ&q=Rock+Against+reagan+yippies&pg=PT80|url-status=live}}</ref> Cause for Alarm, [[Toxic Reasons]] and Static Disruptors.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.songkick.com/festivals/80966-rock-against-reagan/id/5182531-rock-against-reagan-1983|title=Rock Against Reagan 1983, Washington DC|website=songkick|date=3 July 1983|access-date=October 23, 2017|archive-date=December 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215171323/https://www.songkick.com/festivals/80966-rock-against-reagan/id/5182531-rock-against-reagan-1983|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis|url=http://scholarworks.uni.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1259&context=etd|title="Rock against Reagan": The punk movement, cultural hegemony and Reaganism in the eighties|author=Johnathan Kyle Williams|type=MA thesis|publisher=[[University of Northern Iowa]]|date=2016|access-date=October 23, 2017|archive-date=April 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180425021554/https://scholarworks.uni.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1259&context=etd|url-status=live |via=UNI ScholarWorks}}</ref> A young [[Whoopi Goldberg]] performed [[stand-up comedy]] (as did [[Will Durst]]) at the San Francisco R-A-R show.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16944coll15/id/65|title=Rock against Reagan with Dead Kennedys, San Francisco, 1983|website=[[Utah State University]] Library digital collections|date=23 October 1983|access-date=October 23, 2017|archive-date=October 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171024043705/http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16944coll15/id/65|url-status=live}}</ref>[[File:Rockaginstracismleaflet.jpg|thumb|Leaflet advertising Yippie-sponsored Rock Against Racism concert in [[Lincoln Park]], Chicago, June 9, 1979]]

Vancouver Yippies Ken Lester and David Spaner were the managers of Canada's two most notorious political punk bands, [[DOA (band)|D.O.A.]] (Lester) and [[The Subhumans (Canadian band)|The Subhumans]] (Spaner).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thepunkmovie.com/articles/punks-politicos|title=Punks and Politicos|website=Bloodied But Unbowed|author=Beadle, Scott|access-date=2010-05-07|archive-date=August 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820163231/http://thepunkmovie.com/articles/punks-politicos|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bkh4KTy69REC&q=dayton+ohio+yippies&pg=PA79|title=I, Shithead: A Life in Punk|author=[[Joe Keithley]]|publisher=[[Arsenal Pulp Press]]|location=Vancouver, B.C., Canada|date=April 2004|isbn=978-1551521480|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233756/https://books.google.com/books?id=bkh4KTy69REC&q=dayton+ohio+yippies&pg=PA79|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>*[http://www.thepunkmovie.com/sites/default/files/rock_against_racism_fin.jpg POSTER : DOA Rock Against Racism fundraiser, 1979] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013172413/http://www.thepunkmovie.com/sites/default/files/rock_against_racism_fin.jpg |date=October 13, 2017 }} from ''thepunkmovie.com''</ref>  New York Yippie/[[High Times]] publisher [[Tom Forcade]] financed one of the first movies about punk rock, ''D.O.A.'', featuring footage of the [[Sex Pistols]]' 1978 tour of America.<ref>Adrian Boot, [[Chris Salewicz]], ''Punk: The Illustrated History of a Music Revolution'', Page 104, Penguin Studio, 1996.{{ISBN|978-0140260984}}</ref><ref>{{IMDb title|id=0082226|title=D.O.A.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=POIVBgAAQBAJ&q=tom+forcade&pg=PT200|title=The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night|author=[[Anthony Haden-Guest]]|isbn=978-0061723742|publisher=It Books|date=December 8, 2009|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233756/https://books.google.com/books?id=POIVBgAAQBAJ&q=tom+forcade&pg=PT200|url-status=live}}</ref>

Infamous [[Baltimore]] Yippie [[John Waters (filmmaker)|John Waters]] became a renowned independent filmmaker ([[Pink Flamingos]], [[Polyester (film)|Polyester]], [[Hairspray (1988 film)|Hairspray]]), once claiming in an interview that the Yippies influenced his irreverent sense of style: "I was a Yippie agitator, and I wanted to look like [[Little Richard]].  I dressed like a hippie pimp back then, because punk wasn't around yet."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nymag.com/fashion/lookbook/24358/|title=The Look Book: John Waters, Filmmaker|website=New York Magazine|author=Larocca, Amy|date=November 15, 2006 |access-date=2007-10-25|archive-date=October 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006013632/http://nymag.com/fashion/lookbook/24358/|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Pranking the system===
Yippies mocked the system and its authority. The Youth International Party, having nominated a pig ([[Pigasus (politics)|Pigasus]]) for US president in 1968, famously ran [[Nobody for President]] as its 'official' candidate in 1976.<ref name=Conliff>{{cite web|url=http://www.zisman.ca/openroad/1977-Spring/pages/P25.pdf|title=Everybody needs nobody sometimes|author=Conliff, Steve|publisher=Open Road|date=Spring 1977|access-date=October 22, 2017|archive-date=October 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023011827/http://www.zisman.ca/openroad/1977-Spring/pages/P25.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Spangler>*[http://www.headcount.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Nobody-for-President.jpg PHOTO: Nobody For President, Curtis Spangler and Wavy Gravy, October 12, 1976] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180816125853/https://www.headcount.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Nobody-for-President.jpg |date=August 16, 2018 }} (photo credit: James Stark) ''HeadCount.org''</ref><ref name=Wavy>{{cite web|url=http://www.wholeearth.com/issue/2061/article/271/20th.anniversary.rendezvous.-.wavy.gravy|author=Wavy Gravy|title=20th Anniversary Rendezvous – Wavy Gravy|publisher=[[Whole Earth Review]]|website=WholeEarth.com|date=Winter 1988|access-date=March 25, 2018|archive-date=July 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170720143046/http://www.wholeearth.com/issue/2061/article/271/20th.anniversary.rendezvous.-.wavy.gravy|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Vancouver]] Yippie Betty "Zaria" Andrew ran as the Youth International Party's candidate for mayor in 1970.<ref name=Zaria />  One of her campaign promises was to repeal every law, including the law of gravity so that everyone could get high.<ref name=Hawthorn /> That same year, [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]] Yippie Stew Albert ran for sheriff of [[Alameda County, California|Alameda County]], challenging the incumbent sheriff to a high-noon duel and receiving 65,000 votes.<ref>Stew Albert, Who the Hell is Stew Albert?,  Page 131. Red Hen Press, 2003. {{isbn|978-1888996630}}</ref>

In 1970, [[Detroit]] Yippies went to city hall and applied for a permit to blow up the [[General Motors]] building.  After the permit was denied, the Yippies said that it just goes to show you can't work within the system to change the system. "This destroys my last hope for legal channels," said Detroit Yippie Jumpin' Jack Flash.<ref>The New Yippie Book Collective, Blacklisted News: Secret Histories from Chicago to 1984, Page 414. Bleecker Publishing, 1983.</ref>

Some Yippies, including [[Robin Morgan]], [[Nancy Kurshan]], [[Sharon Krebs]] and [[Judy Gumbo]], were active in the [[Guerilla theatre]] feminist group W.I.T.C.H. ([[Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell]]), which combined "theatricality, humor, and activism."<ref name=Morgan>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/sisterhoodispowe00vint|title=Sisterhood is powerful : an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement|editor=[[Robin Morgan]]|publisher=[[Vintage Books]]|date=12 September 1970|isbn=978-0394705392|location=New York}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/daringtobebadrad0000echo|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/daringtobebadrad0000echo/page/76 76]|quote=feminist yippies.|title=Daring to be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967–1975|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|author=Alice Echols|date=1989|isbn=978-0816617876}}</ref>

On November 7, 1970, Jerry Rubin and [[London]] Yippies took over ''The Frost Programme'' when he was the guest on the popular British host's TV program. In all the chaos, a Yippie fired a water pistol into host [[David Frost]]'s open mouth, the broadcaster called for a commercial break and the show was over. ''The [[Daily Mirror]]'''s banner headline: "THE FROST FREAKOUT."<ref>Jerry Rubin, ''We Are Everywhere'', Page 248, Harper and Row, 1971 {{isbn|978-0060902452}}</ref>

===Pie-throwing===

[[Pieing|Pie-throwing]] as a political act was invented by Yippies.<ref>{{cite book|author=[[Laurence Leamer]]|title=The Paper Revolutionaries: The Rise of the Underground Press|page=72|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|date=August 1972|isbn=978-0671211431}}</ref> The first political pie throwing was carried out in Bloomington, Indiana, October 14, 1969, when Jim Retherford, former underground newspaper editor and ghost writer of Jerry Rubin's Do It!, landed a cream pie in the face of former UC Berkeley president Clark Kerr.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fedora.dlib.indiana.edu/fedora/get/iudl:1574681/LARGE|title=Police arrest one after protestors disrupt Kerr talk|first=Connie|last=Barr|location=[[Bloomington, Indiana]]|publisher=[[Indiana University Bloomington]]|work=[[Indiana Daily Student]]|date=October 15, 1969|access-date=October 3, 2021|archive-date=October 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211003221543/http://fedora.dlib.indiana.edu/fedora/get/iudl:1574681/LARGE|url-status=live}}</ref> Retherford was also the first to be arrested. The next pie was thrown by Tom Forcade, who nailed a member of the [[President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography]] in 1970.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/10/weekinreview/take-sugar-eggs-beliefs-and-aim.html|website=New York Times|title=Take Sugar, Eggs, Beliefs ... And Aim|author=Vinciguerra, Thomas|date=10 December 2000|access-date=December 20, 2017|archive-date=October 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007171221/http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/10/weekinreview/take-sugar-eggs-beliefs-and-aim.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Columbus Yippie Steve Conliff pied Ohio Governor James Rhodes in 1977 to protest the Kent State shootings.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbusmonthly.com/lifestyle/20170815/oral-history-pieing-of-gov-jim-rhodes-at-ohio-state-fair|title=An Oral History: The pieing of Gov. Jim Rhodes at the Ohio State Fair|website=Columbus Monthly|author=Ghose, Dave|access-date=August 15, 2017|archive-date=September 28, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170928193519/http://www.columbusmonthly.com/lifestyle/20170815/oral-history-pieing-of-gov-jim-rhodes-at-ohio-state-fair|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://bondiviewertest.azurewebsites.net/DataView/Article/HT?issueKey=19771201&articleKey=19771201178|title=Pie Times for Pols|publisher=High Times|author=Shushnick, Irving|date=December 1977|access-date=December 14, 2017|archive-date=October 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171024095703/http://bondiviewertest.azurewebsites.net/DataView/Article/HT?issueKey=19771201&articleKey=19771201178|url-status=live}}</ref>

Aron "The Pieman" Kay became the best-known Yippie pie-thrower.<ref name=Viola /><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PSK_l32a4NMC&q=google+books+yippies+pieman|title=Pie Any Means Necessary: The Biotic Baking Brigade Cookbook|publisher=[[AK Press]], Oakland, CA|page=15|date=2004|isbn=9781902593883|author=Biotic Baking Brigade|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233757/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Pie_Any_Means_Necessary/PSK_l32a4NMC?hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref> Kay's many targets included  Sen. [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]],<ref>*[http://subversify.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Sen.-Daniel-Patrick-Moynihan-pied-by-Aron-Kay.jpg PHOTO : Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan hit with pie by Aron Kay, 1976] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307201915/http://subversify.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Sen.-Daniel-Patrick-Moynihan-pied-by-Aron-Kay.jpg |date=March 7, 2021 }} Photo from Associated Press</ref> New York City Mayor [[Abraham Beame|Abe Beame]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1977/09/01/two-pie-tuesday/7ce9259d-8681-4717-b376-a3fd5f621824/|newspaper=Washington Post|title=Two-Pie Tuesday|author=Michael Kernan, William Gildea|date=1 September 1977|access-date=December 14, 2017|archive-date=December 30, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230172131/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1977/09/01/two-pie-tuesday/7ce9259d-8681-4717-b376-a3fd5f621824/|url-status=live}}</ref> conservative activist [[Phyllis Schlafly]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/Watchf-AP-A-NY-USA-APHS262270-Phyllis-Schlafly-/e5ad423b720d40598e5d427051affa5f|title=PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY ERA OPPOSITION – ARON KAY HOLDING PIE (photo)|publisher=Associated Press|website=AP Images|date=16 April 1977|access-date=December 15, 2017|archive-date=December 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215053312/http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/Watchf-AP-A-NY-USA-APHS262270-Phyllis-Schlafly-/e5ad423b720d40598e5d427051affa5f|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Watergate]] burglar [[Frank Sturgis]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/Associated-Press-Domestic-News-New-York-United-/50a5c1f343e5da11af9f0014c2589dfb/10/0|title=PIE THROWER|publisher=Associated Press|website=AP Images|date=3 November 1977|access-date=December 15, 2017|archive-date=December 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215053713/http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/Associated-Press-Domestic-News-New-York-United-/50a5c1f343e5da11af9f0014c2589dfb/10/0|url-status=live}}</ref> ex-[[CIA]] head [[William Colby]],  [[National Review]] publisher/editor [[William F. Buckley]],<ref>The New Yippie Book Collective (eds.), ''Blacklisted News: Secret Histories from Chicago to 1984'', page 288. Bleecker Publishing, 1983.</ref> and the owner of disco [[Studio 54]], [[Steve Rubell]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.heraldweekly.com/step-inside-studio-54-the-wild-nights-of-1970s-celebrities-disco-and-debauchery/57/?xcmg=1|title=Entertainment : Step Inside Studio 54: The Wild Nights of 1970's Celebrities, Disco and Debauchery|website=HeraldWeekly.com|author=Bedewi, Jessica|publisher=Samyo News|access-date=22 January 2021|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233801/https://www.heraldweekly.com/step-inside-studio-54-the-wild-nights-of-1970s-celebrities-disco-and-debauchery/57/?xcmg=1|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Nobody for President and "None of the Above"===

{{See also|Nobody for President|None of the above}}

Perhaps one of the swan songs of Yippies was a groundbreaking effort to place a new voting option, "None of the Above", on the election ballot in [[Santa Barbara County]], in California, by the [[Isla Vista Municipal Advisory Council]] in 1976. This represented an incipient libertarian impulse of Yippies and the first example in the United States of this election ballot alternative, in what one of the resolution's two co-sponsors, [[Matthew Steen]], described as an "anti-institutional Yippie [[wikt:up yours|up-yours]]."  Years earlier Steen had been a Yippie activist with [[Stew Albert]], as a reporter with the ''[[Berkeley Tribe]]''.  This novel motion was adopted unanimously by the council, having a ripple effect across the country, with voters in [[Nevada]] approving this option in a change to state election laws in 1986.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/10/none-of-the-above-ballot_n_3576469.html|title='None Of The Above' Ballot Option In Nevada Upheld By Federal Appeals Court|website=[[HuffPost]]|date=2015-11-25|access-date=2016-08-22|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125044018/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/10/none-of-the-above-ballot_n_3576469.html|archive-date=November 25, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

In 1976, national Yippies took a cue from [[Isla Vista]]ns, backing [[Nobody for President]], a campaign that took on a life of its own in the post-Watergate malaise of the mid-70s.<ref name=Conliff /><ref name=Spangler /><ref name=Wavy />  The Yippie campaign slogan: "Nobody's perfect."<ref>The New Yippie Book Collective, Blacklisted News: Secret Histories from Chicago to 1984, Page 321. Bleecker Publishing, 1983.</ref> (Meanwhile, in a strange twist of Yippie fate, [[Matthew Steen]] had become treasurer of a student-led campaign to elect [[Jerry Brown]] for president, competing against both "Nobody for President" and [[Jimmy Carter]] during the presidential primary campaign of that year.)

From the experimental combination of Isla Vista local politics, presidential campaigns and the Yippies, the name and spirit of this unexpected ballot initiative spread quickly—in the form of None of the Above music festivals, radio and television shows, rock bands, T-shirts, buttons, (decades later) countless websites and other related social phenomena.  The die-hard dedication to the 'option' of Nobody for President and None of the Above has not abated since the counter-cultural 70s, but has only grown, unexpectedly taking the Yippie legacy into a new century and succeeding generations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/nobody_for_president/|title=Nobody For President|website=hoaxes.org|access-date=September 16, 2017|archive-date=September 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916053648/http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/nobody_for_president/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nobodyforpresident.org/index2020.html |title=Nobody for President 2020 |access-date=March 25, 2018 |archive-date=March 11, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311112423/http://nobodyforpresident.org/index2020.html |url-status=live }}</ref>[[File:Freetheweed.jpg|thumb|Banner at Halloween Yippie Smoke-In, [[Columbus, Ohio|Columbus]], Ohio, 1978]]

== Writings <span class="anchor" id="YIPL"></span><span class="anchor" id="TAP"></span>==
"An exegesis on women's liberation" by the Women's Caucus within the Youth International Party was included in the 1970 anthology ''[[Sisterhood is Powerful]]: An Anthology of Writings From The Women's Liberation Movement'', edited by [[Robin Morgan]].<ref name=Morgan />

In June 1971, Abbie Hoffman and Al Bell started the pioneer [[phreaking|phreak]] magazine ''The Youth International Party Line'' (''YIPL''). Later, the name was changed to ''TAP'' for ''Technological American Party'' or ''Technological Assistance Program.''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fraw.org.uk/library/pages/xu2008.shtml|title=The Secrets of the Little Pamphlet: Hippies, Hackers, and the Youth International Party Line|publisher=Free Range Virtual Library|author=Christina Xu|access-date=2008-12-05|archive-date=October 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006062159/http://www.fraw.org.uk/library/pages/xu2008.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref>

Milwaukee Yippies published ''Street Sheet,'' the first of the anarchist zines later to become so popular in many cities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://zonyx.net/TEXTS/Sentinel.html|title=Street Sheet Spreads Yippie Message|publisher=Milwaukee Sentinel|website=Zonyx Report|author=Zetteler, Mike|date=28 August 1971|access-date=October 6, 2017|archive-date=October 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007070212/http://zonyx.net/TEXTS/Sentinel.html|url-status=live}}</ref> ''The Open Road,'' an internationally known journal of the anti-authoritarian left, was founded by a core of Vancouver Yippies.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://vanarchive.wordpress.com/yippies/vancouver-yippie/|website=Vancouver Anarchist Online Archive|title=Vancouver Yippie!|access-date=2006-08-08|archive-date=October 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007120042/https://vanarchive.wordpress.com/yippies/vancouver-yippie/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://openroadnewsjournal.org/|title=Open Road News Journal|website=Open Road News Journal|access-date=October 6, 2017|archive-date=September 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911234809/http://openroadnewsjournal.org/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/16129/etd9426_EMartin.pdf|title=Burn It Down! Anarchism, Activism, and the Vancouver Five, 1967–1985|author=Martin, Eryk|date=2016|access-date=February 4, 2018|archive-date=November 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181103165857/http://summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/16129/etd9426_EMartin.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

The semi-official Yippie [[house organ]], ''The Yipster Times'', was founded by [[Dana Beal]] in 1972 and published in New York City;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19731107&id=vI0hAAAAIBAJ&pg=3774,4218302&hl=en|website=Reading Eagle|title=Yippies Locked in Struggle to Survive|date=November 7, 1973|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233834/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19731107&id=vI0hAAAAIBAJ&pg=3774%2C4218302&hl=en|url-status=live}} [https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D_JfK47xhRI/WgMoojylMxI/AAAAAAAANco/qqInyS-UCE0YpArrqNSG_Ji63-TQzmjogCLcBGAs/s1600/yipstertimes.jpg Illustration : Yipster Times cover, June 1975] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228161948/https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D_JfK47xhRI/WgMoojylMxI/AAAAAAAANco/qqInyS-UCE0YpArrqNSG_Ji63-TQzmjogCLcBGAs/s1600/yipstertimes.jpg |date=February 28, 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/21/nyregion/fyi-341142.html|title=F.Y.I.|author=Schneider, Daniel B.|website=[[The New York Times]]|date=21 May 2000|access-date=April 5, 2018|archive-date=March 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180329042235/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/21/nyregion/fyi-341142.html|url-status=live}}</ref> the name was changed to ''Overthrow'' in 1979.<ref>*[https://pictures.abebooks.com/BOLERIUM/md/md10407089401.jpg OVERTHROW cover : Fall 1985] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215104134/https://pictures.abebooks.com/BOLERIUM/md/md10407089401.jpg |date=February 15, 2020 }} *** [https://pictures.abebooks.com/BLOLBC/md/md22649082438.jpg OVERTHROW cover : Spring 1986] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301033827/https://pictures.abebooks.com/BLOLBC/md/md22649082438.jpg |date=March 1, 2020 }} credit: ''Bolerium Books''</ref>

The mercurial Yippie-turned-[[Zippie]] [[Tom Forcade]] founded the very-successful ''[[High Times]]'' magazine in 1974.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n-SG3oWUjhMC&q=yippie+concerts&pg=PA152|title=Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana – Medical, Recreational and Scientific|author=Martin A. Lee|isbn=978-1536620085|publisher=Simon & Schuster|date=2012|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233829/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Smoke_Signals/n-SG3oWUjhMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=yippie+concerts&pg=PA152&printsec=frontcover|url-status=live}}</ref> So many writers for ''Yipster Times'' would go on to write for ''[[High Times]]'', it was often referred to as the [[farm team]].<ref name=zip />

The most famous writing to come out of the Yippie movement is [[Abbie Hoffman]]'s ''[[Steal This Book]]'', which is considered to be a guidebook in causing general mischief and capturing the spirit of the Yippie movement. Hoffman is also the author of ''Revolution for the Hell of It'' which has been called the original Yippie book. This book claims that there were no actual yippies, and that the name was just a term used to create a myth.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Sixties Papers: Documents of a Rebellious Decade|editor1=Judith Clavir Albert|editor2=Stewart Edward Albert|location=Connecticut|year=1984|pages=[https://archive.org/details/weareeverywherew00rubi/page/402 402]|isbn=978-0060902452|url=https://archive.org/details/weareeverywherew00rubi/page/402}}</ref>

Jerry Rubin published his account of the Yippie movement in his book ''Do IT!: Scenarios of Revolution.''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.enotes.com/topics/do-scenarios-revolution |title=Rubin, Jerry: Do IT! Scenarios of Revolution |website=Enotes |access-date=October 5, 2017 |archive-date=October 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006112823/https://www.enotes.com/topics/do-scenarios-revolution |url-status=live }}</ref>

Books on Yippie by Yippies include ''Woodstock Nation'' and ''Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture'' ([[Abbie Hoffman]]), ''We Are Everywhere'' ([[Jerry Rubin]]), ''Trashing'' ([[Anita Hoffman]]), ''Who the Hell is Stew Albert?'' ([[Stew Albert]]), ''Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut'' ([[Paul Krassner]]) and ''Shards of God: A Novel of the Yippies'' ([[Ed Sanders]]).<ref>{{cite book|title=Shards of God: A novel of the Yippies|author=[[Ed Sanders]]|date=January 1970|publisher=[[Random House]]|isbn=978-0394174631}}</ref> Some other books about that era: ''Woodstock Census: The Nationwide Survey of the Sixties Generation'' (Deanne Stillman and Rex Weiner),<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/rex-deanne-stillman-weiner/woodstock-census-the-nationwide-survey-of-the-s/|title=Woodstock Census: The Nationwide Survey of the Sixties Generation|magazine=Kirkus Reviews|date=12 November 1979|access-date=October 6, 2017|archive-date=October 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007021616/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/rex-deanne-stillman-weiner/woodstock-census-the-nationwide-survey-of-the-s/|url-status=live}}</ref> ''The Panama Hat Trail'' ([[Tom Miller (travel writer)|Tom Miller]]),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theragblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/tom-miller-when-jerry-rubin-came-to.html|title=Tom Miller: Yippie activist Jerry Rubin brought his psychedelic oratory to Arizona|website=TheRagBlog|date=January 25, 2010|access-date=January 25, 2010|archive-date=August 30, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830035833/http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/tom-miller-when-jerry-rubin-came-to.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Panama Hat Trail|author=Tom Miller|isbn=978-0816535873|publisher=[[University of Arizona Press]]|date=2017}}</ref>''Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000'' ([[Martin Torgoff]]),<ref>{{cite book|title=Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000|author=Martin Torgoff|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|isbn=978-0743230117|date=2005}}</ref> ''Groove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion'' (Aniko Bodroghkozy),<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/groovetubesixtie00bodr|title=Groove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion|author=Aniko Bodroghkozy|publisher=[[Duke University Press]]|isbn=978-0822326458|date=February 2001|url-access=registration}}</ref> and ''The Ballad of Ken and Emily: or, Tales from the Counterculture'' (Ken Wachsberger).<ref name=Wachsberger />

''[[Buy This Book]]'', written and illustrated by political cartoonist and post-1960s Yippie activist [[Pete Wagner]],<ref name=Wagner>{{cite book|title=Buy This Book|author=[[Pete Wagner]]|publisher=Minne HA! HA! Publishing|location=Minneapolis, MN, USA|date=1980|isbn=978-0937706008}}</ref> who distributed copies of the ''Yipster Times'' on the [[University of Minnesota]] campus in the mid-1970s, was promoted by Hoffman, who said the book "manages to reach to the limits of bad taste."<ref name=Wagner /> ''[[Buy This Too]]'' recounts efforts by a guerrilla street theater gang named the ''1985 Brain Trust'' to "fight the New Right with Yippie-like myth-making tactics."  The Brain Trust was inspired by a series of meetings and interviews between Wagner and [[Paul Krassner]] in [[Minneapolis]] during May 1981, as Krassner performed [[stand-up comedy]] at [[Dudley Riggs]]' [[Brave New Workshop|Instant Theater Company]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Buy This Too|author=[[Pete Wagner]]|publisher=Minne HA! HA! Publishing|location=Minneapolis, MN, USA|date=1987|isbn=978-0937706015}}</ref>

In 1983, a group of Yippies published ''Blacklisted News: Secret Histories from Chicago '68, to 1984'' (Bleecker Publishing), a large, 'phone-book sized anthology' (733 pages) of Yippie history, including journalistic accounts from both alternative and mainstream media, as well as many personal stories and essays.  Includes countless photographs, old leaflets and posters, 'underground' comics, newspaper clippings, and various other historical ephemera.  The editors (often doubling as authors) officially called themselves "The New Yippie Book Collective";  which included [[Steve Conliff]] (who wrote over half the volume), [[Dana Beal]] (head archivist), Grace Nichols, Daisy Deadhead, [[Ben Masel]], Alice Torbush, Karen Wachsman, and Aron Kay.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Blacklisted News: Secret Histories from Chicago, '68, to 1984 | author=New Yippie Book Collective | isbn=9780912873008 |publisher=Bleecker Publishing|date=1983}}</ref> It is still in print.

== Later years ==
[[HBO]] docudrama film ''[[Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8]]'' was first broadcast in 1987.

In 1989, [[Abbie Hoffman#Death|Abbie Hoffman]], who had been suffering intermittent bouts of [[Major depressive disorder|depression]], committed suicide with alcohol and about 150 [[phenobarbital]] pills.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/19/us/abbie-hoffman-committed-suicide-using-barbiturates-autopsy-shows.html|title=Abbie Hoffman Committed Suicide Using Barbiturates, Autopsy Shows|newspaper=New York Times|author=King, Wayne|date=9 April 1989|access-date=December 20, 2017|archive-date=July 23, 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120723020937/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/19/us/abbie-hoffman-committed-suicide-using-barbiturates-autopsy-shows.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

By contrast, Jerry Rubin became a fast-talking (and by all accounts, fairly successful) [[Stock market|stockbroker]] and showed no regrets.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/09/19/jerry-rubins-weird-road-from-yippie-to-yuppie/|website=The Village Voice|title=Jerry Rubin's Weird Road From Yippie to Yuppie|author=R.C. Baker|date=September 19, 2017|access-date=19 September 2017|archive-date=December 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215111319/https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/09/19/jerry-rubins-weird-road-from-yippie-to-yuppie/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1994 he was fatally injured by a car while [[jaywalking]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/30/obituaries/jerry-rubin-56-flashy-60-s-radical-dies-yippies-founder-and-chicago-7-defendant.html|title=Jerry Rubin, 56, Flashy 60's Radical, Dies; 'Yippies' Founder and Chicago 7 Defendant|newspaper=New York Times|author=Pace, Eric|date=30 November 1994|access-date=December 20, 2017|archive-date=February 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200212174954/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/30/obituaries/jerry-rubin-56-flashy-60-s-radical-dies-yippies-founder-and-chicago-7-defendant.html|url-status=live}}</ref>  By the age of 50, Rubin had broken with many of his previous countercultural views; he was interviewed by ''[[The New York Times]]'', which described him as a "yippie-turned-conspicuous-yuppie." In the interview, he stated that "Until me, nobody had really taken off their clothes and screamed out loud, 'It's O.K. to make money!'"<ref>{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE5DF1238F935A25754C0A96E948260|title=Jerry Rubin Is 50 (Yes, 50) Years Old|newspaper=New York Times|date=16 July 1988|access-date=September 19, 2017|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305233833/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/16/nyregion/jerry-rubin-is-50-yes-50-years-old.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2000, a [[Hollywood (film industry)|Hollywood]] film based on the life of [[Abbie Hoffman]], titled ''[[Steal This Movie]]'' (spoofing the title of his book, ''[[Steal This Book]]''), was released to mixed reviews, with [[Vincent D'Onofrio]] in the title role.<ref>{{IMDb title|id=0161216|title=Steal This Movie}}</ref>  Noted film critic [[Roger Ebert]] gave the movie a positive review,<ref name="RogerEbert.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/steal-this-movie-2000|author=Ebert, Roger|title=Steal This Movie|website=RogerEbert.com|publisher=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|date=August 25, 2000|access-date=November 19, 2018|archive-date=February 14, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214012708/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/steal-this-movie-2000|url-status=live}}</ref> remarking that although it is often difficult to credibly bring historic events to life, he believed the movie succeeded:<ref name="RogerEbert.com"/>

{{blockquote|text=Abbie Hoffman is seen wearing an American flag shirt and getting in trouble for desecrating it; the movie cuts to footage of [[Roy Rogers]] and [[Dale Evans]] yodeling while wearing their flag shirts. Hoffman insisted that the flag represented all Americans, including those opposed to the war; he resisted efforts of the Right to annex it as their exclusive ideological banner.<br>[[Vincent D'Onofrio]] has an interesting task, playing the role, since Hoffman seems on autopilot much of the time. He is charismatic and has an instinctive grasp of the dramatic gesture, but can be infuriating on a one-to-one level ...<ref name=RogerEbert.com />}}

The Yippies continued as a small movement into the early 2000s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cannabisnews.com/news/9/thread9552.shtml|title=Yippie Central|publisher=New York Today|author=Moynihan, Colin|date=30 April 2001|access-date=October 9, 2017|archive-date=June 26, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070626013817/http://cannabisnews.com/news/9/thread9552.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/15/nyregion/still-agitating-forget-arthritis-old-yippies-want-steal-convention-but-city.html|title=Still Agitating (Forget the Arthritis); Old Yippies Want to Steal Convention, but City Balks|author=Archibold, Randal C.|website=New York Times|date=April 15, 2004|access-date=2004-04-15|archive-date=October 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014035411/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/15/nyregion/still-agitating-forget-arthritis-old-yippies-want-steal-convention-but-city.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/23/nyregion/yippies-protest-near-bloomberg-s-town-house.html|title=Yippies Protest Near Bloomberg's Town House|last1=Healy|first1=Patrick|last2=Moynihan|first2=Colin|website=New York Times|date=August 23, 2004|access-date=2004-08-23|archive-date=February 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180206233112/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/23/nyregion/yippies-protest-near-bloomberg-s-town-house.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The New York chapter was known for their annual marches for decades in New York City to legalize [[cannabis (drug)|marijuana]];<ref name="A. Yippie"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/03/nyregion/pot-smokers-march-is-out-of-the-park.html|title=Pot Smokers' March Is Out of the Park|newspaper=New York Times|author=Allen, Mike|date=3 May 1998|access-date=December 20, 2017|archive-date=January 31, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131065309/http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/03/nyregion/pot-smokers-march-is-out-of-the-park.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Marcelle Clements, ''The Dog Is Us, and other observations'', p.46-47, Penguin Books, 1987, {{ISBN|978-0140084450}}</ref> NYC Yippie [[Dana Beal]] started the [[Global Marijuana March]] in 1999.<ref name=IT /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://gvshp.org/blog/2016/04/20/from-sip-ins-to-smoke-ins-marijuana-and-the-village/|title=From Sip-Ins to Smoke-ins ... Marijuana and the Village|website=OffTheGrid : Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation|author=Morowitz, Matthew|date=April 20, 2016|access-date=2016-04-20|archive-date=October 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010055150/http://gvshp.org/blog/2016/04/20/from-sip-ins-to-smoke-ins-marijuana-and-the-village/|url-status=live}}</ref> Beal also continued to crusade for the use of [[Ibogaine]]<ref>{{cite journal |author1=K.R. Alper |author2=H.S. Lotsof |author3=C.D. Kaplan | year = 2008 | title = The Ibogaine Medical Subculture | journal = J. Ethnopharmacol. | volume = 115 | pages = 9–24 | pmid=18029124 | doi = 10.1016/j.jep.2007.08.034 | issue = 1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2009/mar/13/feature_boston_ibogaine_forum_sh|title=Feature: The Boston Ibogaine Forum -- from Shamanism to Cutting Edge Science|author=Smith, P.|website=StopTheDrugWar.org|publisher=Drug War Chronicle|access-date=13 March 2009|archive-date=April 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180404072944/https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2009/mar/13/feature_boston_ibogaine_forum_sh|url-status=live}} Beal was a forum participant.</ref> to treat heroin addicts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://medium.com/orange-beef-press/dana-beal-wants-to-cure-heroin-addiction-with-ibogaine-400b2535c39|publisher=Orange Beef Press|website=[[Medium (website)|Medium]]|author=Arnett, Andrew|title=Dana Beal Wants To Cure Heroin Addiction With Ibogaine|access-date=6 July 2016|archive-date=March 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319004106/https://medium.com/orange-beef-press/dana-beal-wants-to-cure-heroin-addiction-with-ibogaine-400b2535c39|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://chrisfowlie.com/2009/09/dana-beal-yippie-for-drug-treatment/|title=Dana Beal: Yippie for drug treatment!|author=Fowlie, Chris|website=ChrisFowlie.com|access-date=21 September 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130912005347/http://chrisfowlie.com/2009/09/dana-beal-yippie-for-drug-treatment/|archive-date=September 12, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> Another Yippie, [[A.J. Weberman]], continued the deconstruction of the poetry of [[Bob Dylan]] and speculation about tramps on the Grassy Knoll through various websites. Weberman has for a long time been active in the [[Jewish Defense Organization]].

Throughout this decade, NYC Yippies frequently joined in local anti-[[gentrification]] protests over the continuing transformation of New York's [[Lower East Side]].<ref name="Penley">Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/aMOoxoWpM2o Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140113090810/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMOoxoWpM2o&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web|title=FILM : John Penley is an Anarcho-Yippie – A Film by Vagabond (46 min)| date=January 13, 2014 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMOoxoWpM2o|access-date=13 January 2014|publisher=AUDIO VISUAL TERRORISM}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name=Tamiment /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/nyregion/15protest.html|title=East Village Protesters Denounce All Things Gentrified. It's a Tradition.|author=Moynihan, Colin|website=New York Times|date=June 15, 2008|access-date=2008-06-15|archive-date=January 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105155354/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/nyregion/15protest.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2008, there was a very public feud between [[A.J. Weberman]] and fellow founding-Yippie, popular New York radio host [[Bob Fass]] of [[WBAI]]. Related incidents briefly brought the Yippies back into the media,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2008/04/01/yippie-apocalypse-in-the-east-village/|title=Yippie Apocalypse in the East Village|website=The Village Voice|author=Rayman, Graham|date=April 2008|access-date=2008-04-01|archive-date=October 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010055334/https://www.villagevoice.com/2008/04/01/yippie-apocalypse-in-the-east-village/|url-status=dead}}</ref> particularly since they coincided with the public release of new movie.

[[Chicago 10 (film)|Chicago 10]] was an animated movie about [[1968 Democratic National Convention#The Chicago Police riot|the Chicago riots]] that drew national attention.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/chicago10/yippies.html|title=CHICAGO 10 : The Film|publisher=PBS|date=22 October 2008|access-date=October 2, 2017|archive-date=October 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002165545/http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/chicago10/yippies.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The film, which featured [[Hank Azaria]] as Abbie Hoffman and [[Mark Ruffalo]] as Jerry Rubin,<ref>{{IMDb title|id=1309975|title=Chicago 10}}</ref> attracted interest in the topic from a new generation. In October 2008, it appeared nationally on [[PBS]].

Vancouver Yippie Bob Sarti's play ''Yippies in Love'', premiered in June 2011.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hawthorn |first1=Tom |title=Yippies in Love: Exploring the Vancouver riot – of 40 years ago |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/tom-hawthorn/yippies-in-love-exploring-the-vancouver-riot---of-40-years-ago/article2071796/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304234203/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/tom-hawthorn/yippies-in-love-exploring-the-vancouver-riot---of-40-years-ago/article2071796/ |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |access-date=22 June 2011 |website=The Globe and Mail}}</ref><ref>[http://www.theatreintheraw.ca/images/yippies-a-love-story/yippies-in-love-poster.jpg POSTER : YIPPIES IN LOVE] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225072352/https://www.theatreintheraw.ca/images/yippies-a-love-story/yippies-in-love-poster.jpg|date=February 25, 2021}} Theatre in the Raw, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, 2011</ref>

==Yippie Museum and Cafe==
In 2004, the Yippies, along with the National AIDS Brigade, purchased the long-time Yippie "headquarters" (which had initially been acquired by [[squatting]]<ref name=Starecheski />) at 9 [[Bleecker Street]] in New York City <ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/01/garden/yippies-answer-to-smoke-filled-rooms.html|title=Yippies' Answer to Smoke-Filled Rooms|website=New York Times|author=Leland, John|date=May 2003|access-date=2003-05-01|archive-date=December 29, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171229150626/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/01/garden/yippies-answer-to-smoke-filled-rooms.html|url-status=live}}</ref> for $1.2 million.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nysun.com/article/29241|title=Yippies Apply for a Piece of Establishment|author=Kolben, Deborah|website=New York Sun|access-date=2006-03-16|archive-date=September 7, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907014030/http://www.nysun.com/article/29241|url-status=live}}</ref>  After official purchase, it was converted into the "Yippie Museum/Café and Gift Shop",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thevillager.com/villager_144/museumwillhave.html|title=Museum will have Abbie's trash, Rubin's road kill|author=Anderson, Lincoln|website=The Villager|access-date=2006-02-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060624052027/http://www.thevillager.com/villager_144/museumwillhave.html|archive-date=June 24, 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newyorkartworld.com/things/things-yippie.html|title=The Yippie Museum|website=New York Art World|date=2007|access-date=October 22, 2017|archive-date=July 5, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705035615/http://www.newyorkartworld.com/things/things-yippie.html|url-status=live}}</ref> housing a multitude of counter-cultural and leftist memorabilia from all over the world, as well as providing an independently operated café that featured live music on scheduled nights.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thevillager.com/villager_185/stealthiscoffeehouse.html|title=Steal This Coffeehouse : Yippies Revive the 60s Vibe|website=The Villager|author=Haught, Lori|access-date=2006-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070907205559/http://www.thevillager.com/villager_185/stealthiscoffeehouse.html|archive-date=September 7, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/nyregion/thecity/20yipp.html|title=At the Yippie Museum, It's Parrots and Flannel|author=Bleyer, Jennifer|website=New York Times|date=January 20, 2008|access-date=2008-01-20|archive-date=April 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416222548/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/nyregion/thecity/20yipp.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The cafe closed in summer 2011 and reopened in December the same year with a renovated basement.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://localeastvillage.com/2011/12/09/yippee-the-yippie-museum-cafe-gets-back-its-groove/|website=Local East Village|title=Yippee! The Yippie Museum Cafe Gets Back Its Groove|author=Sjolin, Sara|access-date=2011-12-09|archive-date=October 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010055024/http://localeastvillage.com/2011/12/09/yippee-the-yippie-museum-cafe-gets-back-its-groove/|url-status=live}}</ref>  The museum was chartered by the [[Board of Regents]] of the [[University of the State of New York]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.regents.nysed.gov/2006Meetings/March2006/0306bra1.htm|title=NY Board of Regents – Charter Applications for March 2006|publisher=State of New York|date=September 29, 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060929113834/http://www.regents.nysed.gov/2006Meetings/March2006/0306bra1.htm|archive-date=September 29, 2006|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

According to the original curator's message, the museum was founded "to preserve the history of the Youth International Party and all of its offshoots."  The Board of Directors: [[Dana Beal]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/nyregion/11yippie.html|title=A Yippie Veteran Is in Jail Far From the East Village|website=New York Times|author=Moynihan, Colin|date=June 11, 2008|access-date=2008-06-11|archive-date=October 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171015044850/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/nyregion/11yippie.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Aron Kay, [[David Peel (musician)|David Peel]], William Propp, Paul DeRienzo, and [[A. J. Weberman]].<ref>[http://yippiecafe.blogspot.com YippieCafe.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228233410/http://yippiecafe.blogspot.com/ |date=February 28, 2021 }}.</ref>

[[George Martinez (activist)|George Martinez]] was a semi-frequent speaker at the Yippies' Open-Mic, known as "Occupational Hazards/The People's Soapbox."<ref name=Lennard />

In Summer 2013, The Yippie Cafe officially closed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nypress.com/remembering-the-yippies/|title=Remembering the Yippies : Counter-cultural haven on Bleecker Street still alive despite legal struggle|website=NY PRESS|author=Fitzsimmons, Daniel|access-date=4 December 2013|archive-date=January 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180109235322/http://www.nypress.com/remembering-the-yippies/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/loan-dispute-threatens-a-countercultural-soapbox/?_r=0|title=Loan Dispute Threatens a Countercultural Soapbox|website=New York Times|author=Moynihan, Colin|date=June 9, 2013|access-date=2013-06-09|archive-date=September 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924025729/https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/loan-dispute-threatens-a-countercultural-soapbox/?_r=0|url-status=live}}</ref> At the beginning of 2014, the Yippie building (Museum) at 9 Bleecker Street was sold, closed and permanently cleaned out;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.celebstoner.com/blogs/preston-peet/2014/01/17/requiem-for-yippie-stronghold,-9-bleecker/|title=Requiem for Yippie Stronghold, 9 Bleecker|website=CelebStoner|author=Peet, Preston|access-date=2014-01-17|archive-date=October 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010054616/https://www.celebstoner.com/blogs/preston-peet/2014/01/17/requiem-for-yippie-stronghold,-9-bleecker/|url-status=live}}</ref> most of the memorabilia and historic materials dispersed among the remaining New York Yippies.<ref name=Moynihan2014 />

In July 2014, the Yippie building at 9 Bleecker Street was transformed into a [[Bowery]]-area [[Boxing]] club called "Overthrow", deliberately  retaining much of its original Yippie/60s-revolutionary decor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://overthrownyc.com/about/|title=About OVERTHROW|website=OverthrowNYC.com|access-date=15 June 2021|archive-date=June 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612235613/https://overthrownyc.com/about/|url-status=live}}</ref> Overthrow would remain in the location for about a decade, until closing in November 2024 due to financial difficulties.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://evgrieve.com/2024/10/overthrow-is-closing-next-week-on.html | title=Overthrow is closing next week on Bleecker Street; the onetime countercounter HQ is for sale |publisher=EV Grieve |access-date=October 30, 2024 |archive-date=April 1, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250401140440/https://evgrieve.com/2024/10/overthrow-is-closing-next-week-on.html}}</ref>

== ''The Trial of the Chicago 7'' ==
{{Main|The Trial of the Chicago 7}}
In 2020, one of the most widely popular pieces of media about the Yippie Movement and particularly the infamous trial was released on Netflix. The film was called “The Trial of the Chicago 7” and received an 89% on Rotten Tomatoes,<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Trial of the Chicago 7 {{!}} Rotten Tomatoes |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_trial_of_the_chicago_7 |access-date=2025-02-26 |website=www.rottentomatoes.com |language=en}}</ref> which reflected the audience's wide praise for the movie. It essentially depicts the peaceful protest that turned into the violent clash that will stamp Yippie history forever, as well as the notorious trial that followed. The film follows this entire scenario, with an in-depth back story for all the characters and scenes that depict the atrocity and excitement of the situation. It follows the film's two main characters and founders of the Youth International party, [[Abbie Hoffman]] and [[Jerry Rubin]], as well as the other 5 activists that stood trial. There is truly a star-studded cast, with [[Sacha Baron Cohen]] playing Hoffman and [[Jeremy Strong]] playing Rubin, while another prominent actor [[Eddie Redmayne]] plays activist [[Tom Hayden]]. The film was directed by [[Aaron Sorkin]] and won a variety of awards, including the “Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture” and the “[[Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay]]”. The movie was originally intended to be released in theaters, but the COVID-19 pandemic led to the distribution rights being sold to Netflix. Netflix bought the rights to the film for a sum of 56 million, while the production of the film cost around $35 million.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) - Financial Information |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Trial-of-the-Chicago-7-The#tab=summary |access-date=2025-02-26 |website=The Numbers}}</ref>

81 year old [[Judy Gumbo]] was a member of the original Yippie movement and had nothing but positive affirmations for the film. After watching “The Trial of the Chicago 7” she states “it’s a positive and affirming movie. It brings up things, like racism and that [[Bobby Seale]] was targeted. I think the people who are unhappy with it are uber-idealistic and who don’t get, as I, a Yippie, does, the effect I believe it will have on the majority of Americans who watch it.”<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dinkelspiel |first=Frances |date=2020-10-28 |title=Berkeley antiwar organizers separate fact from fiction in 'The Trial of the Chicago 7' |url=https://www.berkeleyside.org/2020/10/28/berkeley-antiwar-organizers-trial-of-the-chicago-7-aaron-sorkin-netflix#:~:text=Gumbo%20disagrees%20with%20Wasserman%20and,of%20Americans%20who%20watch%20it.%E2%80%9D |access-date=2025-02-26 |website=Berkeleyside |language=en-US}}</ref> She believes that the issues discussed in the movie are as relevant now as they were in the 1960’s, which is why the film is so important and impactful.

==See also==
* [[1968 Democratic National Convention protest activity]]
* [[1971 May Day protests]]
* [[Cannabis political parties of the United States]]
* [[Freak scene]]
* [[Gastown riots]]
* [[Hippie]]
* [[Human Be-In]]
* [https://archive.org/details/July4thSmoke-inAtWashingtonDc ''July 4th Smoke-In at Washington DC'' (1977)] The Annual July 4 Smoke-In at Washington DC - film by [[Howard Lotsof]] and the [[Yippie]]s - 26 minutes. 
* [[List of anti-war organizations]]
* [[List of incidents at Disneyland Resort]]
* [[List of peace activists]]
* ''[[Medium Cool]]'' – [[Haskell Wexler]]'s groundbreaking, fictional [[cinéma vérité]] account of Chicago during the '68 convention, using actual riot footage as backdrop for the actors and (improvised) events.
* [[Nobody for President]]
* [[None of the Above]]
* [[Pigasus (politics)|Pigasus]]
* [[Protests of 1968]]
* [[Summer of Love]]
* [[Yuppie]], a term coined in 1980 and popularized by a 1983 newspaper column about Jerry Rubin written by [[Bob Greene]], "From Yippie to Yuppie"
* ''[[Zenger]]''
* [[Zippie]]

==References==
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== Further reading ==

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*[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/07/nyregion/neighborhood-report-greenwich-village-house-yippies-chicago-convention-recurring.html NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: GREENWICH VILLAGE; House of Yippies: Chicago Convention A Recurring Dream] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228232305/http://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/07/nyregion/neighborhood-report-greenwich-village-house-yippies-chicago-convention-recurring.html |date=December 28, 2017 }} ''New York Times'' –  April 7, 1996
*[https://www.thedailybeast.com/throwing-custard-pies-looks-like-fun-its-also-art Throwing Custard Pies Looks Like Fun. It’s Also Art.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181207192028/https://www.thedailybeast.com/throwing-custard-pies-looks-like-fun-its-also-art |date=December 7, 2018 }} – A history of political pie-throwing by [[Anthony Haden-Guest]] in ''[[The Daily Beast]]'', February 18, 2018.
*[https://forward.com/culture/480775/aron-kay-pie-throwing-mrs-america-jewish-holocaust-survivor-counterculture/ Once a Jewish hero of the counterculture, Aron Kay looks back on his pie-throwing days] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130195842/https://forward.com/culture/480775/aron-kay-pie-throwing-mrs-america-jewish-holocaust-survivor-counterculture/ |date=January 30, 2022 }} by Jon Kalish in ''[[The Forward]]'', January 18, 2022.
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