HIST 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Guerrilla Theatre, Youth International Party, Pentagon
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Group of grads who supported cuban revolution. Students end up not being able to pass out any politically themed fliers. Marcus savior non-violent civil disobedience tactics. Pressure eventually gets too much and they side with the students allowed to distribute their literature freely. Said ucb had given in" to the students. Reagan made this his main issue when he ran for governor of ca. When he gets in, he fires the uc president. They just wanted to go in the streets and use satire, guerilla theater to get through to the police. Examples were throwing dollar bills over the balcony on wall street and levitating" the pentagon. Based on anger over humphrey winning the election even after losing primaries (rigged) Cops were of a different generation so violence broke out easily against the privileged younger generation. Yippies came up with their own candidate for election.