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Thread #76935   Message #1370423
Posted By: Bobert
03-Jan-05 - 06:23 PM
Thread Name: BS: Is 60s Hippie Worshipping a Religion?
Subject: RE: BS: Is 60s Hippie Worshipping a Religion?
Yo GUEST,

Guess you weren't in Richmond, Va. in the 60's... Beyond the sex, drugs and r & r, we oganized lots of cool stuff, including a food coop, the Fan Free Clinic which still operates today... We hooked up with hippies out in Hanover and Hendrico counties who had small farms and had a hippie veg-wagen... We did draft counseling... We orgainized the Free University, of which I was the promotion manager, and provided free cousres in all kinds of stuff that had nuthin' to do with s,d or r&r...

Plus, we had our own underground neswpaper, The Richmond Chronicle which provided lots of counter culural activities and resources...

We were allied with the Quicksilver Times in D.C. and there were folks in D.C. doing the same things...

Now I appeciate yer posts for the most part, GUEST, but I think because we didn't win all the marbles doesn't mean we didn't have a lasting impact on society... And still at it, fir that matter...

I'm one of the organizers of the local farmers market in Leesburg and spent many a Sunday aftetrnoon this past season either performing or leading music jams...

We do what we can...

Peace

Bobert