Posted on 01/31/2006 7:12:22 PM PST by NormsRevenge
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Stew Albert, a co-founder of the Youth International Party, whose members were more commonly known as Yippies, died Monday of liver cancer. He was 66.
Albert was clubbed by police during the 1968 anti-war Democratic National Convention riot and was named as an unindicted coconspirator at the Chicago 7 trial.
The Yippies in 1968 advanced a pig as candidate for president and in 1970 invaded Disneyland for a day. In 1970, Albert ran for sheriff of Alameda County, Calif., but lost.
Albert moved to Portland in 1984 and continued to carry an idealistic torch for the 1960s. "I came here to bring the holy spirit of the '60s to this younger generation," he said in 2000.
His 2005 memoir was titled "Who the Hell is Stew Albert?" because of a question Howard Stern posed on his radio show. "It's less a case of local boy makes good, more a case of local boy makes trouble," Albert said.
Albert was born Dec. 4, 1939, in Brooklyn, N.Y., an only child. He graduated from Pace University and in 1964 began organizing against the Vietnam War.
In 1988, he attended a 20-year reunion in Chicago of 1968 protesters.
"I imagine Americans secretly miss the passion of my generation," he wrote of that experience.
In 1996, Mayor Richard M. Daley, son of former Mayor Richard J. Daley, invited him to Chicago with his pal Tom Hayden, a former roommate, for a day of reconciliation.
Albert was co-author with his wife of "The Sixties Papers" anthology. He ran the Yippie Reading Room online and continued to blog until the day before his death.
He is survived by his wife, Judy Gumbo Albert, and daughter, Jessica Pearl Albert. A funeral service is scheduled Wednesday.
The Yippies were at first anarchist (good) before they went communist (not good.)
Neither did I. I did hear of the Yippies, though.
Some silly commie :)
Heck, I don't even remember the Yippies!!!!
WHOOOOOOO boy. Coulda been I was busy raising my young family???
Dang. What a bunch of freaks.
different source .. similar content. Thanks
ap probably pulled a lot of their info from the Oregonian.
Shilling for mass murderers like Mao and Ho Chi Minh is "idealistic" according to the MSM.
Don't forget the Mrs., "Gumbo".
Looks like ap used about 2/3rd of the oregonian article for theirs... oh well.
Thanks for the ping - it tends to get blurred over time, but the Yippies were quite distinct from the rest of the "revolutionary" bunch in that (1) they knew the whole thing was a joke, and (2) they were raising merry hell simply for the fun of it. That does not negate the damage they did - the "passion" of OUR generation condemned the Vietnamese people to three decades of communist oppression.
Not even close you schmuck..not even close...guess its kinda moot now..
No one screwed Viet Nam vets more than you types,John Kerryand Walter Cronkite
never the less R.I.P. and your so called movement with you...
imo
HEY! My oldest sis was a Yippie when we lived in Portland in the 60s! Then we moved to Florida and she became a Zippie!
wheres cartman when you need him?
over hheeeeaaaaw or over theeeeeaw
oh really? Where'd you do the research?
I thought that you built up serum ammonia and went to sleep...not painful...or developed varices on the esophagus and bled out. By that time your serum ammonia level is sky high, you're comatose or at best obtunded and difficult to arouse. If you die of liver failure then you fail to produce albumin, are unable to maintain your blood pressure and quietly slip into a coma as your blood pressure drops and you 3rd space all your fluids. In other words you turn yellow, then you die.
He was a "yippee", whatever that meant. He lived and now he's dead. Big whup-dee-doo.
The only reason he's mentioned by the AP (Al-Jazeera Press) is that he hated our country, capitalism and liberty...other than that he was just some "guy" who didn't produce anything of value, didn't affect anyone of importance and didn't leave a mark on anything but a police blotter and the vague memory of a bunch of wasted, hemp heads and free loaders...yawn, my dog "Champy's" death affected me more than this clown.
Stew and Gumbo?
What is this, soulfood mates?
All in all, I'd say an entirely wasted life from this litany of "accomplishments".
Just to point this out, but Stew was not a Boomer and was over 30 in 1970.
Hey Hong Kong Expat,
while the frogs seriously screwed the pooch in Le Indochine, Ike refused to allow massive bombing in the hills around Dien Bien Phu. It would have been the end of Ho!!
It's the little decisions in life that make BIG consequences years later.
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