Amber Nelson Abbie Hoffman had more integrity in his pinky finger than you ever will. He got out there and led activism on the frontlines and fought for social justice his whole life. He died broke because he gave away most of his earnings from speaking engagements like this. You sit back and dump on him when you don’t even have a clue what you’re talking about.
Rubin did more for social activism than you could possibly imagine. Despite shifting some beliefs his actions still reflected one who cared about change with donations and organizations he started.
I love that quote at the end of Abbie's speech, "There is no problem in our society to which there is not a creative practical workable solution. We have the technology, we have the money, we have the brains, we simply lack the will to address ourselves to the public problem. We didn't invent the cry of peace and justice in the 1960s and we certainly didn't write its final chapter... the battle is not over."
@@chickasawstarrmountain9747 what the fuck does that even mean? The "radical left" in the US is depressingly centrist. Are you crying about bathrooms or something?
I worked for Abbie when he started the grass roots organization Save The River. He came out of hiding while In the 1000 Islands NY He was a great man .
abbie was born circa 1936 and died when he was 52, I think. I think he ended his physical life in 1989, before turning 53. He was exhausted, had bipolar disorder, no money to speak of, was in pain from an accident. Ronald Reagan was loved and embraced by the majority of the fine citizenry of this fine nation. Abbie had done so much for so long, trying to get the truth through the thick and greedy skulls of his fellow "Amurkins" well, you get the idea. In any case, Abbie lives! L. W.
lauren waters abbie hoffman was murdered. there is no evixence he was bipolar but ic he was theres no correlation between being bipolar and suicide. he had zero motive to kill himelf. tbe coroner was bought and paid for. they are willing whores, think nicolas hartshorne or the clintons coroner in arkansas forget his name. zero motive. most bipolar people do not kill themselves. he was murdered. family was denied an independent autopsy. at the time of his death he was earning 60K a year giving speeches at collag3s and universities around the country. that was a very good income in those days and not so bad for today either. he was murdered
Humanity can only advance by strongly challenging the limitations within its own species. Abby Hoffman had a role to play in this regard, and he played it with energy, vision, passion and dedication.
Wow...more than 30 years old and we are still fighting the same *ucking battle. What a sorry state to be in. Every person on the earth show hear these words!
"There was this man, given a little talk, and for some reason, he was wearin an american flag for a shirt, and he liked to say the F-word, a lot, F this and F that, and every time he said the F-word, people for some reason, well, they'd cheer" -Forest Gump on Abbie Hoffman
everything he says here is the goddamned truth--and most people NOW realize this! Abbie is and was a tremendous patriot and philosopher. Abbie lives forever!
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom. - Nelson Mandela
+John Smith I have a great job. You should read this.. Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60 (History of Communication) by Elizabeth A Fones-Wolf. This is how the United States was meant to be shaped til' now.
I think that is part of the reason he left this world. Abbie took the weight of the world on his shoulders, it was getting to be too heavy for him to carry
The video itself is new, but Abbie Hoffman's speech is probably 20 years old, but still very applicable. HateOnePercent picked a perfect retort for Cain's remarks.
im a capitalist but not like this, we can live happily whithout living to make rich richer to the point of absurdity, never seen worse generation today who dont even have a voice or thought, things are falling apart and all ppl care is about their Money their little lifes we never been as lonely never been as divided as we are now
9:43-10:46 This is basically the entire platform of the modern American Progressive left. The demands haven’t changed, only the people doing the demanding. It baffles me how there are still so few people on board with these ideas.
counterculture isn't all about drugs or stuff like it. The idea of of counter culture is to take a hard look at what people do and why. Counterculture asks, "are these people following rules because those rules currently make sense and apply to me, or because those rules have always governed our lives and they do not want to change that?" Also, in the 60s, people didn't really understand the negative effects of drugs. They viewed taking drugs as being like drinking during prohibition.
@justgivemethetruth if you knew anything about American culture, you'd know Hoffman was one of the most respectful, direct, and important people in the 60s, in American life period. i'll leave you to reading about it, in case you dont watch Steal This Movie. open your eyes PAWN
As for Herman Cain, he is absolutely right. The problem with him is that he is unable to articulate his position well. Here and elsewhere answering the questions he could not find the right wording.
he said that canadians now are cheering 1 in 10 out of work (10% unemployment) when in the 60's they would have been angry at 1 in 5 out of work (20% unemployment) clearly people would be angrier about unemployment when the problem was twice as bad. did he misspeak or was he terrible at math?
Abbie Hoffman said in the 80's what Obama said when he first ran for President in 2008 "change from the bottom up so of course Obama got that from Hoffman and how has that worked out? The poor have gotten poorer and the middle class has been disappearing since he's been President.
The poor were doing well under Bush? I'm sure that is news to them. The economy was collapsing at the end of Bush's second term and the banks relied on socialism to not go out of business. The economy has recovered under Obama and minimum wage has been increased. If the Republicans would stop obstructing public jobs programs the economy would improve even more.
+Fred Hall _"the banks relied on socialism to not go out of business."_ The banks did not rely on common ownership of the means of production and workplace democracy. Socialism doesn't mean "handouts from the government" or "anything the government does". In fact, socialism has nothing to do with the government at all, and many socialists are anti-state (i.e., anarchists).
the system is build that way, banks create Money out thin air to be paid with interest, only people whith fresh Money that isnt suffering from inflation are the rich and corporation with a window to the fed, the minute it trickles down its inflation and it needs to be paid with interest that dosent exist, result need for more debt and credit, result more poverty, america nor anybody stands a chance in this system, the illusion americans have about their history is amazing, last thing they remembre was the 80s when the usa borrowed Money like never before and robbed the 3 world lending fiat Money printed out thin air with high interest, usa is robbing machine, that uses its people to do the dirty job when some country gets out line nd wants to be free usa goes on a profitable genocide, but keep it up i bet you americans are having a good time, look at those stocks flying high, yummy look at the next war coming yummyyyy
@Les MooreJust the opposite. Any cocktail I can throw is vodka based or purly metaphorical. Jeez are you dull. Got to do better Lester. Now get a good night's sleep and try again tomorrow.
Abbie was difficult but not wrong - I don't agree with everything he said (or did), but he had a commitment for fighting the ugliness of mass consumption, and he did it well
This posting just re-enforces the importance of open information!!!! It's sort of freaky to see RUclips as a platform for Abbie to speak from beyond the grave to a new generation, and ironic (yet sad) that the context has not changed much from the last 20 or so years this was originally dictated.
@@PAINTuRED what i am saying is that i think he was murdered. he didn't commit suicide. how was he suicidal. there was no suicide note. why would he not leave a suicide not. it is just unthinkable. he is not suicidal. if he ever did commit suicide, why would he not leave a note. i forget all the particulars, but it was very suspicious when i looked into it once. it didn't add up.
@justgivemethetruth Oh, my... You missed the entire point. It's not an "Abbie" thing, it's you living in the past. This is 2011 and what is it that you have to say?? Old crap about an old organizer. The "issue(s)", son! Address the "issue(s)" and not Abbie. Remember, "don't shoot the messenger"? You must have went to a public school, didn't you? LOL
This video has been cut and edited to make it seem as though he is responding to Herman Cain, but actually his talk is part of a 40-series program of debates he had with Jerry Rubin, who was one of the Chicago Seven, along with Abbie Hoffman. But Jerry Rubin went "Yuppie" and became a Wall Street entrepreneur, while Abbie Hoffman remained true to his roots as a "Yippie". This ironic contrast provided endless fodder for spirited exchanges between the two. ruclips.net/video/wyXlj5nZKpg/видео.html
@DannyKDavis HAhahahahaha ... LOL, that;'s the funniest thing I ever read, thanks, can I quote you on that, it's probably the most intelligent and grammatically correct thing you will ever say. Big Abbie Hoffman fan are you? hahahaha
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I have a lot of respect for Abbie. He kept fighting for what was right and he never sold out like some of his contemporaries did.
Amber Nelson Abbie Hoffman had more integrity in his pinky finger than you ever will. He got out there and led activism on the frontlines and fought for social justice his whole life. He died broke because he gave away most of his earnings from speaking engagements like this. You sit back and dump on him when you don’t even have a clue what you’re talking about.
@Amber Nelson ☮️ Peace*
I think suicide us selling out; giving up and it makes me sad he did.
Rubin did more for social activism than you could possibly imagine. Despite shifting some beliefs his actions still reflected one who cared about change with donations and organizations he started.
I love that quote at the end of Abbie's speech, "There is no problem in our society to which there is not a creative practical workable solution. We have the technology, we have the money, we have the brains, we simply lack the will to address ourselves to the public problem. We didn't invent the cry of peace and justice in the 1960s and we certainly didn't write its final chapter... the battle is not over."
Thanks for posting this quotation. I'm gonna copy it!
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. - Napoleon Bonaparte
We need people like Abbie right now. He was great ❤️
I wish Abbie was still around today. It would be curious as to what he'd say about today's political righties and their extremism.
He would be disgusted with the radical left lgbtqwhtthfkevr propaganda agendas it's stepped over the line
@@chickasawstarrmountain9747 what the fuck does that even mean?
The "radical left" in the US is depressingly centrist.
Are you crying about bathrooms or something?
This comment aged horribly. Delete and look up the definition of extremism while you’re at it.
@@fully__goated The right has only become worse and more extreme
Oh, Abbie... you're so missed
I worked for Abbie when he started the grass roots organization Save The River. He came out of hiding while In the 1000 Islands NY He was a great man .
abbie was born circa 1936 and died when he was 52, I think. I think he ended his physical life in 1989, before turning 53. He was exhausted, had bipolar disorder, no money to speak of, was in pain from an accident. Ronald Reagan was loved and embraced by the majority of the fine citizenry of this fine nation. Abbie had done so much for so long, trying to get the truth through the thick and greedy skulls of his fellow "Amurkins" well, you get the idea. In any case, Abbie lives! L. W.
lauren waters abbie hoffman was murdered. there is no evixence he was bipolar but ic he was theres no correlation between being bipolar and suicide. he had zero motive to kill himelf. tbe coroner was bought and paid for. they are willing whores, think nicolas hartshorne or the clintons coroner in arkansas forget his name. zero motive. most bipolar people do not kill themselves. he was murdered. family was denied an independent autopsy. at the time of his death he was earning 60K a year giving speeches at collag3s and universities around the country. that was a very good income in those days and not so bad for today either. he was murdered
Humanity can only advance by strongly challenging the limitations within its own species. Abby Hoffman had a role to play in this regard, and he played it with energy, vision, passion and dedication.
Wow...more than 30 years old and we are still fighting the same *ucking battle. What a sorry state to be in. Every person on the earth show hear these words!
America needs more Abbie Hoffmans
Still very true in 2023!!!!
boy do we need him now
We need a Hoffman for these turbulent Trump years.
Edit: okay, we need him even more throughout the Biden years.
"There was this man, given a little talk, and for some reason, he was wearin an american flag for a shirt, and he liked to say the F-word, a lot, F this and F that, and every time he said the F-word, people for some reason, well, they'd cheer"
-Forest Gump on Abbie Hoffman
Abbie Hoffman was anti democrat. He was protesting against LBJ in the late 60's because LBJ dramatically increased the amount of troops in Vietnam.
Everybody in America needs to see this video.
No way did he kill himself!
anael55 that's the story that they'll tell you
Jaxon Berg YUP!
I have a strong suspicion you are right.
I'm very confused myself
i agree. he would have left a note. i might have been accidental. i was suspicious at first that he was killed. he had enemies.
Still so pertinent, his concepts aren't considered that radical in other superpower countries but in America, we don't get it!
everything he says here is the goddamned truth--and most people NOW realize this! Abbie is and was a tremendous patriot and philosopher. Abbie lives forever!
He was way ahead of his time...
Or we are behind the times.
Right On! Power to the People!
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
- Nelson Mandela
+Maximus Aleixxus Get a job.
- Me
+John Smith I have a great job. You should read this.. Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60 (History of Communication) by Elizabeth A Fones-Wolf. This is how the United States was meant to be shaped til' now.
+Maximus Aleixxus Elizabeth A Fones-Wolf is a socialist and so is her husband.
John Smith Ok. :) Good to know.
Man, He hit it right on the head... and this is from a retrospective point of view about 30 years later.
MAY GOD BLESS THE SOUL OF ABBIE HOFFMAN...
STEAL THIS UPCOMING ELECTION...! (I mean steal it back...!)
"Power from the people" is called a Republic.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. - Aristotle
Wrong, the rich have the control and power.
Keep in mind absolute power, corrupts absolutely.
gee ..... never heard that one before
@@hazor777 gee sorry you have to be sarcastic. I worked for Abbie at Save The River.
I still volunteer.
Hoffman would be truly shitting his pants if he knew what the world into today.
I think that is part of the reason he left this world. Abbie took the weight of the world on his shoulders, it was getting to be too heavy for him to carry
November Spirits he was murdered. the coroner was bought. he never killed himelf.
The video itself is new, but Abbie Hoffman's speech is probably 20 years old, but still very applicable. HateOnePercent picked a perfect retort for Cain's remarks.
Saw him. Miss him
This seems like an old video. When was this video made? Just curious. Thanks!!!
1987 I think.
one day we wont have 0 freedom speech or thought, i hope you people realize how serious times we are in, ppl who speak get crushed and destroyed
1:11 Abbie appears and he looked nothing like SBC
Where can we see the whole talk? Where/when was this presented? Thanks!
Take notes republicans (and dems) this is what a real patriot looks like... and not a gun or flag in sight!
im a capitalist but not like this, we can live happily whithout living to make rich richer to the point of absurdity, never seen worse generation today who dont even have a voice or thought, things are falling apart and all ppl care is about their Money their little lifes we never been as lonely never been as divided as we are now
George Carlin said " The shit don't change man until the shit changes."
well look who died this year to keep the economy up ... you lived longer then you deserved
9:43-10:46 This is basically the entire platform of the modern American Progressive left. The demands haven’t changed, only the people doing the demanding. It baffles me how there are still so few people on board with these ideas.
counterculture isn't all about drugs or stuff like it. The idea of of counter culture is to take a hard look at what people do and why. Counterculture asks, "are these people following rules because those rules currently make sense and apply to me, or because those rules have always governed our lives and they do not want to change that?" Also, in the 60s, people didn't really understand the negative effects of drugs. They viewed taking drugs as being like drinking during prohibition.
I've not been big chill'd
"Countries in the third world, like Canada" LOL
tar sands oil destruction in canada against native people home and worlds climate -equals third world behavior in first world
abbie was murdered
YUP
Wear a mask Herman!!!! Oops to late.
I like you!
AH is my spirit animal
Some people just want their fair share. Some people want more than their fair share, and they also wanna blame you for letting them take it..
@justgivemethetruth if you knew anything about American culture, you'd know Hoffman was one of the most respectful, direct, and important people in the 60s, in American life period. i'll leave you to reading about it, in case you dont watch Steal This Movie.
open your eyes PAWN
Awesome
As for Herman Cain, he is absolutely right. The problem with him is that he is unable to articulate his position well. Here and elsewhere answering the questions he could not find the right wording.
He had the right words. Hooray for Herman and fuck everybody that's dumb enough to work for him
he said that canadians now are cheering 1 in 10 out of work (10% unemployment) when in the 60's they would have been angry at 1 in 5 out of work (20% unemployment)
clearly people would be angrier about unemployment when the problem was twice as bad. did he misspeak or was he terrible at math?
Thanks for posting.
I was honored to worked for ,,,,,, a good man and a good cook..
Abbie Hoffman said in the 80's what Obama said when he first ran for President in 2008 "change from the bottom up so of course Obama got that from Hoffman and how has that worked out? The poor have gotten poorer and the middle class has been disappearing since he's been President.
The poor were doing well under Bush? I'm sure that is news to them. The economy was collapsing at the end of Bush's second term and the banks relied on socialism to not go out of business. The economy has recovered under Obama and minimum wage has been increased. If the Republicans would stop obstructing public jobs programs the economy would improve even more.
+Fred Hall _"the banks relied on socialism to not go out of business."_
The banks did not rely on common ownership of the means of production and workplace democracy. Socialism doesn't mean "handouts from the government" or "anything the government does". In fact, socialism has nothing to do with the government at all, and many socialists are anti-state (i.e., anarchists).
the system is build that way, banks create Money out thin air to be paid with interest, only people whith fresh Money that isnt suffering from inflation are the rich and corporation with a window to the fed, the minute it trickles down its inflation and it needs to be paid with interest that dosent exist, result need for more debt and credit, result more poverty, america nor anybody stands a chance in this system, the illusion americans have about their history is amazing, last thing they remembre was the 80s when the usa borrowed Money like never before and robbed the 3 world lending fiat Money printed out thin air with high interest, usa is robbing machine, that uses its people to do the dirty job when some country gets out line nd wants to be free usa goes on a profitable genocide, but keep it up i bet you americans are having a good time, look at those stocks flying high, yummy look at the next war coming yummyyyy
He once boasted that his great-grandfather threw Molotov cocktails at the czars and so radicalism runs in his family.
@Les Moore Only proving less is more.
@Les Moore Genetically superior.
@Les MooreJust the opposite. Any cocktail I can throw is vodka based or purly metaphorical. Jeez are you dull. Got to do better Lester. Now get a good night's sleep and try again tomorrow.
@Les Moore I don't date men. And thx for the typo correction.
Abbie was difficult but not wrong - I don't agree with everything he said (or did), but he had a commitment for fighting the ugliness of mass consumption, and he did it well
all prez's are pre-engineered roleplayers
This posting just re-enforces the importance of open information!!!! It's sort of freaky to see RUclips as a platform for Abbie to speak from beyond the grave to a new generation, and ironic (yet sad) that the context has not changed much from the last 20 or so years this was originally dictated.
to bad this lecture is 'edited'. and there is shockingly little on him on youtube. i think he was murdered and his legacy was edited on youtube.
@@yourmajesty1630 they don't need to have any blood on their hands with murder, when they could just drive you to suicide, like they did with Hoffman
@@PAINTuRED what i am saying is that i think he was murdered. he didn't commit suicide. how was he suicidal. there was no suicide note. why would he not leave a suicide not. it is just unthinkable. he is not suicidal. if he ever did commit suicide, why would he not leave a note. i forget all the particulars, but it was very suspicious when i looked into it once. it didn't add up.
He's not on the internet, he's dead. You're wasting your time insulting a dead man, whom even if alive wouldn't care about your rude opinion.
Has to be some other counter culture character. Abbie Hoffman died in 1989.
you can't handle the truth ...
RRRRR классный был чувак
Abbie Hoffman is stil alive? damd.. even heaven and hell don't want him
What are you on about hair-do?
What a way to start a sentence: "I don't have facts to back this up, but ... " LOL
uncle herman cain
@justgivemethetruth Oh, my... You missed the entire point. It's not an "Abbie" thing, it's you living in the past. This is 2011 and what is it that you have to say?? Old crap about an old organizer. The "issue(s)", son! Address the "issue(s)" and not Abbie. Remember, "don't shoot the messenger"? You must have went to a public school, didn't you? LOL
I mean... most people went to a public school, man.
Weird thing to shit on someone for, they didn't choose how much money their parents had 🤨
You're kiddin right?
This video has been cut and edited to make it seem as though he is responding to Herman Cain, but actually his talk is part of a 40-series program of debates he had with Jerry Rubin, who was one of the Chicago Seven, along with Abbie Hoffman. But Jerry Rubin went "Yuppie" and became a Wall Street entrepreneur, while Abbie Hoffman remained true to his roots as a "Yippie". This ironic contrast provided endless fodder for spirited exchanges between the two. ruclips.net/video/wyXlj5nZKpg/видео.html
Bye, Felicia
@justgivemethetruth it's damn...get literate or stop. where is your
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Abbie died in ‘89, he wasn’t responding to Herman
No seas estúpido
Really?
Jesus christ, are you serious?
@@Meme-zc4cw
Yep
profound verbiage.have a piece of gefilte fish..brain food.
j
@DannyKDavis
HAhahahahaha ... LOL, that;'s the funniest thing I ever read, thanks, can I quote you on that, it's probably the most intelligent and grammatically correct thing you will ever say. Big Abbie Hoffman fan are you? hahahaha
Uh excuse me but, Abbey Hoffman committed suicide years ago.
I wish Pete Townsend would knock him the head again with his guitar!
Aww shucky ducky how’d that work out for you
Abbie has been dead for a while now.
He was confused and indoctrinated
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