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  • Yippie co-founder Stew Albert dies

    02/01/2006 12:06:37 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 16 replies · 581+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Wednesday, February 1, 2006 | Seth Rosenfeld
    Stew Albert, a prominent anti-Vietnam war activist, an early supporter of the Black Panthers and a founder of the Yippie radical protest group, died Monday at age 66 in Portland, Oregon. The cause was cancer. Mr. Albert was a catalytic figure in the Bay Area's emerging New Left political movement of the 1960s, helping to combine white anti-war activists with Black power advocates and hippies. In 1967, Mr. Albert and fellow radicals Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman formed the Youth International Party, melding serious protest with outrageous street theater satire to stage events that became icons of the era. They...
  • Yippies leader dies of liver cancer at 66 - Stew Albert

    01/31/2006 7:12:22 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 64 replies · 1,235+ views
    ap on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 1/31/06 | AP - Los Angeles
    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...