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...that time I was pretty sure that revolution is indeed the only possible answer. In search of that revolution I went to the Yippie rally on the monument grounds that night. Abbie and Jerry spoke and hooked up the microphones to a television set to broadcast President Nixon's press conference...
Somehow it seemed appropriate that above all this, above the White House and above the protesters towered the Washington Monument. This huge phallus, strong but impotent. there because it is there, unwilling and unable to move, yet serving no purpose, it seemed to symbolize the rigid impotence of the movement and the government...
WASHINGTON, D.C., MAY 10-Saturday's anti-war rally here drew an unexpectedly large crowd of almost 100,000 to the Ellipse, a large park between the White House and the Washington Monument, to protest the U.S. invasion of Cambodia and to demand immediate withdrawal of American troops from Southeast Asia...
...time the official rally ended at 3 p.m., at least a thousand had climbed into a reflecting pool between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, where they sang, splashed, and chanted slogans. Many young men and women took off all their clothes; two were later arrested for indecent exposure...
Friday night, yippie Abbie Hoffman and Doug Miranda of the Black Panthers spoke to several thousand students gathered in the Sylvan Theatre, an open-air bowl at the foot of the Washington Monument. Hoffman called the Monument "The world's largest hard...