File 1 - June 1971.

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June 1971.

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SCA451-GA543-1

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(1967-)

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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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First issue of the Youth International Party Line, published June 1972. The issue indicates that the Youth International Party held a protest on Mayday of the same year and handed out 10,000 flyers for the publication. The YIP cites their disappointment in 'Amerika' as a reason to publish this newsletter to help people understand and dismantle the telecommunications monopoly of the Bell Telephone Company. They ask readers to share their copy of the newsletter with friends, and to donate money if possible, or envelopes, paper and stamps from their workplaces. They also make note of a probable need to set up a bail fund.

The first article teaches how to fake credit card charges for long distance phone calls, by using the credit card code for a major company. There is also an article about how to illegally hook up an extra phone to your phone line. There are letters to the editor that ask about topics such as new payphones in Washington, D.C. no longer being able to be fooled by the sound of change in a payphone, and a movement asking people to cancel their phone lines in protest of the Vietnam War. There is a template from the War Tax Resistance to indicate to the government that you will not pay phone taxes that go to fund the war, and information on WPAX a radio station broadcasting to troops in Vietnam.

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Purchased in 2025 from Burnside Rare Books.

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Created by JB Oct. 2025

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