Word: nightbyrd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convention, and it may well have been the end of massive war protests in the U.S. To many of the antiwar leaders, Miami Beach had seemed the chance to reassemble the movement and kick off a national campaign against Nixon. More likely it was, as Jeff Nightbyrd, a yippie leader, put it, "the last of the national jamborees...
...Jeff Nightbyrd of the Youth International Party explained: "There aren't any real villains here at the Democratic Convention." In marked contrast to the club-wielding cops at the 1968 Chicago convention, Miami Beach Police Chief Rocky Pomerance worked closely with protest leaders. Most important, the Democrats had changed into a party with a broader base. Not only did the Democrats nominate an antiwar candidate, but members of the protest groups who stormed the barricades in Chicago were now inside the convention hall. Said Yippie Leader Abbie Hoffman: "I'm groovin' on democracy! This thing really freaks...
...calls "peaceful direct action beneath the summer sun of blue-watered Miami Beach." Yippie leaders have set up their mimeograph machines in a posh five-room suite two blocks from the Miami Beach Auditorium and Convention Hall. After several strategy sessions with Pomerance and his staff, Yippie Organizer Jeff Nightbyrd says: "You know, during all this planning I don't think I heard the word 'pig' one time. We all call them cops around here...
...example, turned down the city's offer of two demonstration sites, the first because it was too small and the second because it was in the middle of an old folks' section. "Can you imagine what would happen if there was massive tear gassing?" says Nightbyrd. "Those old people can't run, and some of them would die." Eventually, Pomerance set aside two grassy areas in front of the convention hall for demonstrations. A believer in "maximum security with minimum visibility," Pomerance arranged for the fences around the demonstration grounds to be decorated with hibiscus bushes...
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