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The Youth International Party was founded on December 31, 1967 by Abbie Hoffman, Anita Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Nancy Kurshan and Paul Krassner. Coming out of the beliefs of the hippie movement, the group named themselves yippies and created the backronym Youth International Party. The organization advocated for cooperative and alternative political and social institutions including food co-ops, free health care, permaculture farming, free schools and more. They had a plan for a "new nation" in America that was grounded in collectivism, community, and anarchy and were one of the early schools of the political New Left movement. The movement continued to exist through the later part of the 20th century with protests, smoke-ins, operating cooperative institutions, political farcicality and more.
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Issue number 2 of the Youth International Party Line, published July 1971. The main article is on blue boxes being used for phone hacking, and how to do so. There is a reprint of an article by journalist Russell Baker addressed to Abbie Hoffman, along with a reply from Hoffman, about the Bell Telephone monopoly.
There are letters from readers inquiring about how to detect if your phone has been wiretapped, as well as listing the phone numbers of prominent politicians with a note to call them collect from a pay phone. The back of the newsletter has information on how Bell has become what the YIP calls 'anti-human'. The two incidents include tapping the phone of Senator Eugene McCarthy, and the fact that Western Electric (who made telephones), also made guided missiles.
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Purchased in 2025 from Burnside Rare Books.
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Created by JB Oct. 2025
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