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The Diggers took their name from the original English Diggers (1649–1650) who had promulgated a vision of society free from buying, selling, and private property. [2] [5] During the mid- and late 1960s, the San Francisco Diggers organized free music concerts and works of political art, provided free food, medical care, transport, and temporary housing and opened stores that gave away stock.
The symbol now known internationally as the "peace symbol" or "peace sign", was created in 1958 as a symbol for Britain's campaign for nuclear disarmament. [53] It went on to be widely adopted in the American anti-war movement in the 1960s and was re-interpreted as generically representing world peace .
An example of the cross-over of beat poetry and music can be seen when Burroughs appeared at the Phun City festival, organised in 24–26 July 1970 by Mick Farren with underground community bands including The Pretty Things, Kevin Ayers, Edgar Broughton Band, Pink Fairies, Shagrat, and, from the United States, the MC5.
In 1970, Hunter S. Thompson campaigned to become Sherriff of Aspen, Colorado as part of the "Freak Power" movement, and used this symbol to represent Freaks The freak scene was originally a component of the bohemian subculture which began in California in the mid-1960s, associated with (or part of) the hippie movement.
[citation needed] The idea of the Human Be-In was born of a fear that the movement would be erased due to tensions between factions of the Hippie movement. [citation needed] Bowen writes "The anti-war and free speech movement in Berkeley thought the Hippies were too disengaged and spaced out. Their influence might draw the young away from ...
A sign of this was the visibility that the hippie subculture gained in various mainstream and underground media. Hippie exploitation films are 1960s exploitation films about the hippie counterculture [ 179 ] with stereotypical situations associated with the movement such as marijuana and LSD use, sex and wild psychedelic parties.
Alto, Isla Vista, 1967–1969 [9]; Berkeley Barb, Berkeley, 1965–1980; Berkeley Tribe, Berkeley, 1969–1972 (split from the Berkeley Barb after staff went on strike); The Black Panther, Oakland
Many of these ideas/practices came from other (overlapping and intermingling) counter-cultural groups such as the Diggers, [59] [60] the San Francisco Mime Troupe, the Merry Pranksters/Deadheads, [61] [62] [63] the Hog Farm, [64] the Rainbow Family, [65] the Esalen Institute, [66] the Peace and Freedom Party, the White Panther Party and The Farm.