BUREAU OF LOST CULTURE – Rubin and the Yippies (17/08/2024)
Along with his compatriot Abbie Hoffman, counter-culture icon, anti-war activist, new age / self-help proponent, social-networking pioneer and all-around troublemaker JERRY RUBIN helped articulate the voice of young America in the 60s and early 70s, employing protests that used performance art, pranks and provocation.
Unlike Hoffman, who was canonized as a countercultural saint, Rubin was accused by many of “selling out”, the worst thing a 1960s radical could do, and as a consequence got written out of the hippie history books
Well, that is until our guest today: archivist, uber re-issue producer and countercultural author PAT THOMAS wrote the biography ‘Did It! From Yippie To Yuppie: Jerry Rubin, An American Revolutionary’
We hear about the YIPPIES, the Chicago 8, Lennon and Yoko in New York and we debate the question: ‘Once a revolutionary always a revolutionary?
Check out this Rubin related playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/29hu1j0CCYkqcwdy24Cq4h
