Yippie movement recollections featuring John Lennon and 1970s counterculture

was essentially a movement of young people involved in a generational struggle. /nternational: |t was happening all over the globe, from Mexico to France, from Germany to Japan. And Party: In both senses of the word. We would 6ea party and we would Aavea party. Yippie was only a label to describe a phenomenon that already existed--an organic coalition of psychedelic dropouts and _ political activists. There was no separation between our culture and our politics. In the process of cross-pollination, we had come to share an awareness that there was a linear connection between putting kids in prison for smoking marijuana in this country and burning them to death with napalm on the other side of the planet. It was just the ultimate extension of dehumanization. But now reporters had a who for their lead paragraphs. A headline in the Chicago Daily News summed it up: “Yipes! The Yippies Are Coming!" Our myth was becoming a reality. 3. In 1972, | found myself smoking a combination of marijuana and opium with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Lennon was absentmindedly holding on to the joint, and | asked him, “Do the British use that expression, ‘Don’ t bogart that joint,’ or is it only an American term--you know, derived from the image of a cigarette dangling from Humphrey Bogart's lip?” He replied, with a twinkle in his eye, “In England, if you HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015422