Thank you Robert for sharing the Beauty. The poem and photos are spectacular. The Iris, my all time favorite, is magnificent. Amazing tulips. Is that you in the first picture with an Indian print bedspread shirt on? I remember having a bedspread like that.
On November 19, the Berkeley Barb published his essay, Demonstration Or Spectacle As Example, As Communication Or How To Make a March/Spectacle. “Masses of flowers — a visual spectacle — especially concentrated in the front lines. Can be used to set up barricades, to present to Hell’s Angels, police, politicians, and press and spectators whenever needed or at parade’s end … Marchers should bring crosses, to be held up in front in case of violence; like in the movies dealing with Dracula …
Ginsberg’s vision of using masses of flowers in antiwar protest was perhaps his most influential meme, though the phrase “flower power” itself does not appear in his essay. One of the earliest known appearances of the actual term is the Flower Power Day rally organized in May 1967 by Abbie Hoffman, the activist who co-founded the radical street theatre group the the Yippies with Jerry Rubin. Hoffman may have been combining Ginsberg’s flower concept with the phrase Black Power, which Stokely Carmichael popularized in 1966.
Thanks. No. It’s just a vintage photo I like. Allen Ginsberg coined the concept of flower power as a form of protest here in Berkeley in 1965. I follow this philosophy myself.
Thank you Robert for sharing the Beauty. The poem and photos are spectacular. The Iris, my all time favorite, is magnificent. Amazing tulips. Is that you in the first picture with an Indian print bedspread shirt on? I remember having a bedspread like that.
On November 19, the Berkeley Barb published his essay, Demonstration Or Spectacle As Example, As Communication Or How To Make a March/Spectacle. “Masses of flowers — a visual spectacle — especially concentrated in the front lines. Can be used to set up barricades, to present to Hell’s Angels, police, politicians, and press and spectators whenever needed or at parade’s end … Marchers should bring crosses, to be held up in front in case of violence; like in the movies dealing with Dracula …
Ginsberg’s vision of using masses of flowers in antiwar protest was perhaps his most influential meme, though the phrase “flower power” itself does not appear in his essay. One of the earliest known appearances of the actual term is the Flower Power Day rally organized in May 1967 by Abbie Hoffman, the activist who co-founded the radical street theatre group the the Yippies with Jerry Rubin. Hoffman may have been combining Ginsberg’s flower concept with the phrase Black Power, which Stokely Carmichael popularized in 1966.
Thanks. No. It’s just a vintage photo I like. Allen Ginsberg coined the concept of flower power as a form of protest here in Berkeley in 1965. I follow this philosophy myself.