Armed Love - The Diggers w/ Peter Coyote (Part 1)
Added 2021-10-20 10:01:01 +0000 UTCWe begin our new series on the revolutionary counterculture of the sixties by interviewing Peter Coyote, founding member of the Diggers -- an anarchist group from San Francisco whose free stores, tie-died shirts, free concerts, and activist street theater opened the gates of the Haight to tens of thousands of dropouts and helped define the sixties aesthetic. But by '67, the Diggers were already trying to escape the hippie movement by forming a network of revolutionary communes.
Joining Andy for the interview is Sean Lovitt, researcher sixties revolutionary groups and author of Mimeo Insurrection: The Sixties Underground Press and Long Hot Summer of Riots
Topics discussed include: The SF Mime Troop and their controversial minstrel show, the formation of the Diggers, the alleged insurrectionary activities, the Hells Angels, psychedelic drug culture and conspiracies, and the movements against war and for racial justice then and now.
Check out Peter Coyote's books Sleeping Where I fall and Rainman’s Third Cure
And Diane di Prima's Revolutionary Letters
Intro song: Patti Smith - Citizen Ship
Outro Song - My Chemical Romance - Desolation Row
Comments
This interview was great even though this was aired a few years ago.
M
2024-10-26 16:49:51 +0000 UTCI just started to listen to this episode. (Maybe this will be discussed in this series)-1960’s movement in Brazil ? (Tropicalia). I am curious about the 60’s movement in South America.
M
2024-10-26 10:16:44 +0000 UTCAround the 55 min mark I start to get chills because of hat he's talking about (like the blind man and the elephant) is exactly what's going on at the Palestine Solidarity encampments to a large degree. Glad I'm re-listening to this series!
Trey
2024-05-15 12:50:06 +0000 UTCHis reading of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind helped me through the worst time. He and Shunryu Suzuki helped my mind from becoming a terrifying place. I understand that when he talks it might sound like radlib, boomer shit, but consider the time he's from. When he was a kid, if people saw you go into the wrong bookstore you'd be labeled a communist and Blacklisting reverberated outward from Hollywood and into the communities. I went through a period of serious disenchantment about the boomer counterculture, but I think they fought pretty hard for things we take for granted. The forces of reaction are now trying to bring us back to the 50s. I'm trying my best to recognize what was won so we don't slide back and can keep moving forward. I think that the seed of true radical politics, that is germinating currently, was planted by people like Peter Coyote, whether they understand it, or not.
Ben Winkler
2022-01-14 14:29:58 +0000 UTCThe man who let E.T. escape WOULD say all that.
Shane
2021-10-23 12:45:50 +0000 UTCLike a parody of a radical boomer turned introspective old man
Joseph Peppler
2021-10-22 08:05:59 +0000 UTCHoly shit I couldn’t get it out of my head that he sounded exactly like the narrator of all the Ken Burns docs, and then I googled it and he *is* the narrator of all the Burns docs. Ok probably everybody already knew that. As you were, comrades!
Andrew Beetley-Hagler
2021-10-21 16:27:37 +0000 UTCthanks for this ep
Daniel E
2021-10-21 16:11:47 +0000 UTCWhat does Iraq, Yemen, Syria and Afghanistan have to do with revolutionary communist movements (what che stood for), this is a list of american bombing targets
Alonso Rojas del Valle
2021-10-21 12:05:08 +0000 UTC~48 min: Sudden Radlib. Interesting stuff nonetheless.
Anton Pannekoek
2021-10-21 11:13:47 +0000 UTCThat's really cool that you got him. Looking forward to listening!
Eamon
2021-10-20 22:42:34 +0000 UTCThe retreat inward is an illogical and one of fear. Those tactics were a failure so yeah I’m ignore it
Kevin Kerby
2021-10-20 18:43:21 +0000 UTCFor real
Kevin Kerby
2021-10-20 18:36:59 +0000 UTCDon’t agree at all with him but interesting
Kevin Kerby
2021-10-20 18:30:46 +0000 UTCSome of what they did was good
dillards dept.
2021-10-20 16:49:47 +0000 UTCI think this is great. Read his book while back . Cautionary tale of non materialistic politics. Also this Buddhist boomer is PISSED! HEHEHWHE
dillards dept.
2021-10-20 16:49:11 +0000 UTCA good example of why the ‘60’s were a dead end. His politics are an incoherent grab bag of liberal idealism with a dash of radicalism on top for flair.
Kenny Allums
2021-10-20 16:34:27 +0000 UTC
