Word: morea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sure, hippies are armed," Morea says. "When the hippie movement began with flower children from the upper middle class, there were no arms, but the new hip movement is buttressed by the lower middle class and the lower class too, where they know about weapons." To Morea, now a social and political philosopher, the hip's thing is "to build our own community, one which can protect itself...
...MOREA'S dilemma is that his people have picked up weapons without picking up enough support to make the weapons matter. The street hip community--which does not include the flower child hippie, "who is still tied to property relationships"--never got over 200 in Boston this summer. Near the end, after several weeks of pounding from the police, it was down to fewer than 20. With so few troops, weapons are meaningless, unless the hips take to the hills and employ insurrectionist tactics...
...Morea is hardly a guerrilla fighter. All he wants is for the hips to be left alone, so they can carry out what he considers to be "a social revolution." The police, however, "can't allow us to grow, because what we're about calls into question everything they stand...
...Morea, and other leaders, make the crucial decision: fight back. "It's a matter of survival, not principle," he says. "It's not a question of violence vs. non-violence; it's living vs. dying...
...says it like a man dying. On trial him-self in a week, knowing that his hip community dwindled to almost nothing under police pressure, wondering whether his hip comrades will ever find peace anywhere, Morea seems to know that while he may have found in the street a successful solution to his own hangups, he is failing as a revolutionary...