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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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Number 11 of the Youth International Party Line, published June-July 1972. This issue is advertised as a 'special convention issue' to coincide with the first phone phreaking conference being held in Miami Beach, July 11-12, 1972. The convention is promised to include teach-ins on telephones, meetings with internationally known phone phreaks, courses on phone politics and peoples technology, and information booths and demonstrations on anti-war, women's rights, health care and more.
Letters in this issue advertise a correspondence course on making your own clandestine devices, and tricks for getting money/refunds from the phone company. This issue also includes a new article on receiving free long distance calls along with a diagram. There is also a call for a boycott of companies that make defence tools and weapons being used in South East Asia. Finally, there is a call for contributions to a defence fund for 'captain crunch' the pseudonym of John Draper, noted phone phreaker, who had been arrested for using a blue box.
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Purchased in 2025 from Burnside Rare Books.
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For more information on John Draper, see John Draper at Wikipedia.
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Created by JB Oct. 2025
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