Yippie Girl: Exploits In Protest And Defeating The Fbi (libr

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Nombre: Yippie Girl: Exploits in Protest and Defeating the FBI (Libro en Inglés)
Marca: Three Rooms Press

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A welcome addition to the literature of radical activism. Kirkus Reviews A fun read and a valuable political document, long overdue. Counterpunch
Lifelong activist Judy Gumbo, an original member of The Yippies, a 1960s anti-war satirical protest group, offers an insider feminist memoir of her involvement with the Yippies, Black Panthers, women's rights, environmental actions, and a life of activism.
In 1968, a 24-year-old woman moved to Berkeley, California and immediately became enmeshed in the Youth International Party, aka The Yippies, an anti-war satirical protest group. In the next few years, Judy Gumbo (a nickname given her by Eldridge Cleaver), was soon at the center of counter-cultural activityfrom protests in Peoples Park, to meetings at Black Panther headquarters, to running a pig for President at the raucous Democratic National Convention in Chicago, a protest that devolved into violent attacks by the police and arrests that led to the notorious Chicago Conspiracy Trial.
In this historical account, Gumbo reveals intimate details ofand struggles withher fellow radicals Jerry Rubin, Anita & Abbie Hoffman, Eldridge Cleaver, Paul Krassner, Stew Albert, and more, detailing their experiences in radical protests. This deep dive into her activism includes details of her organization of a national women's rights group, her visit to North Vietnam during the war, her travels around the globe to promote women's liberation and anti-war protest, and her environmental activism. It also includes extensive excerpts from illegal wiretaps and surveillance by the FBI.
Yippie Girl explores Gumbos life as a protester to show that, while circumstances always change, protesters can stay loyal to the causes they believe in and remain true to themselves. She also reveals how dogmatism, authoritarianism, and interpersonal conflict can damage those same just causes, offering a timeless and strategic guide for activists today protesting against injustice in all its forms.

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"A superb and delightful book. Intimate and comprehensive in its telling, Yippie Girl stays true to the politics of the radical left of the sixties while reflecting on its mistakes, successes and tragedies." Morning Star
There is no better guide to the mood and tumult of the counterculture revolution of that time than Judy Gumbos memoir, Yippie Girl. In an often amusing account of her years as a would-be revolutionary, she opens a window on a time that has passed into legend. Berkeleyside
Candid, informative, fascinating, detailed, impressively organized. .... An extraordinary memoir of an extraordinary woman in extraordinary times. Timely in that contemporary political activists can draw inspiration from this member of a previous general of protestors, and timeless in that much of what was being protested about remains in controversial issues relevant today. Midwest Book Review
A brilliant memoir of an important period in American history OPED News
"Gumbo delivers a sharp-edged memoir of years of protest and resistance . . . A welcome addition to the literature of radical activism in the age of Johnson, Nixon, and beyond. Kirkus Reviews
The best account in existence of what life was like for a woman in the theatrical, goofy, messianic world of the Yippie boys . . . A fun read and a valuable political document, long overdue. Its cause for celebration. Jonah Raskin, Counterpunch
In Judy Gumbos Yippie Girl, she shares her adventures as one of very few Yippie girls with her fellow travelers including my father Phil Ochs. The Yippies unending creativity and courage provided the sardonic wit, wisdom, insight, and brutal honesty in the form of political music and theater needed for the revolution of the 60s. Judys stories effortlessly dance between playful and profound and always deeply personal. With the world fractured by orchestrated divisiveness, Yippie Girl is a healing balm. Meegan Lee Ochs, daughter of Phil Ochs, Ar

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-Idioma: Inglés
-Envío: Desde EE. UU.
-Libro Impreso y Nuevo

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Tiempo de entrega: 10 días
Peso del paquete: 1 kg
Medidas: 5 cm x 22 cm x 27 cm cm
Material: Papel
Modelo: 9781953103185
Meses de garantía: 1
Garantía: Por defecto de fabricación
Condición: Nuevo
Color: Multicolor
Nombre de color: Multicolor
ASIN: 1953103189
País de producción: United States
Encuadernado: Pasta blanda
Editorial: Three Rooms Press
Titulo del libro: Yippie Girl: Exploits in Protest and Defeating the FBI (Libro en Inglés)
Autor: Gumbo, Judy
Fecha de publicación: 2022
Idioma: Inglés
Edición: 1
Número de páginas: 360
ISBN-13: 9781953103185
Edad mínima sugerida: 6
Genero musical: Literatura Universal
Contenido del paquete: 1 pieza
SKU: 9781953103185