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Things are very different among the Avatar people, the Fort Hill community. "We were once where they are now," said Liz O'Melveny, Avatar's communicator, of the Charles St. hippies. "Why do you want to write about them...
...monolithic symbol." It is made up of about 150 people, "all living in all the houses at once." The community, Liz said, which includes Jim Kweskin of the jug band and Mel Lyman, who considers himself to be a second Jesus Christ, is connected with United Illuminating, which, besides Avatar, makes films, cuts records, and runs building projects in the South...
...Avatar, a hippie-oriented newspaper based on a belief in Mel Lyman and in astrology, was founded in June 1967. "We were appealing to the people who could listen at the time," Liz said, 'the drug people. Now we appeal to everybody; businessmen, church people...
This was the first issue of The Daily World, a national Marxist paper replacing the semi-weekly Worker. Cambridge police have previously arrested salesmen of other newspapers such as Avatar...
...Boston City Police did in two weeks what the Avatar couldn't do in a year, but what the New York City Tactical Police Force did in one night at Columbia. With a series of harrassments in which police officers didn't let hippies sit on the Boston Common or stand idle in the streets around Beacon Hill and in which over 200 arrests have been made, the city has given the hip people something to feel together about...