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1. Anita Hoffman, The Revolutionary Yippie
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Anita Hoffman The Yippies didn't just want to sit around and smoke pot. They sought to pull Uncle Sam's pants down in public, to show that revolution could be conducted in a spirit of festive nonviolence.

Dubbing her the "Queen of the Yippies," the U.K.'s Economist (not exactly a radical publication) had this to say of Anita Hoffman and her husband Abbie: "Perhaps the most famous song of the 1960s was Bob Dylan's 'The Times They Are A'Changin'', in which 'senators, congressmen' and others stuck in the past were warned of the 'battle outside raging.' No one fought the battle with more enthusiasm than the Hoffmans, Abbie and Anita."

The Hoffmans became the symbols of an era of resistance against racism, capitalism and war.
She was born Anita Kushner in New York, to middle-class Jewish parents. Abbie had a similar background. Both had taken courses in psychology. They met at a party and took to each other immediately. Anita was writing a report on police brutality. Abbie was working in a shop selling goods made by blacks. Of their compatibility, Abbie said, "If I had been born a woman I would have been Anita. Sometimes couples take 50 years of living together to look and act alike; we began right off. She was a born rascal." They married in 1967 and later bore a son named america.

Alongside Tom Hayden and Jerry Rubin, Anita and Abbie formed the core of the Yippies or Youth International Party -- combining the marijuana and rock-n-roll drop-out culture of the hippies with a zeal for revolution inspired by Che Guevara, The Weathermen and the Black Panther Party. The Yippies didn't just want to sit around and smoke pot. They sought to pull Uncle Sam's pants down in public, to show that revolution could be conducted in a spirit of festive nonviolence.

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