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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 18 of the Youth International Party Line, published May 1973. This issue is titled "the sex change issue" and relays a letter from a reader asking YIPL to stop using "Ma Bell" as Bell Telephone is a system of the patriarchy, and instead to call is "Pa Bell". Articles include a continuation of an article from the previous issue on how Bell came to dominate the telecommunications industry, how to prevent long distance calls from being made on your phone line, information on inflation, an update on credit card fraud checks, and information on the credit card numbers of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and how they are treating Indigenous peoples. There is also an article written by Abbie Hoffman on the importance of free speech.
Letters from readers include an appeal to help stop the 'Special Treatment and Rehabilitation Training' program at the U.S. Medical Centre (United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners), information on loop lines, and using Mexican pesos instead of American coins in payphones.
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Purchased in 2025 from Burnside Rare Books.
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The Special Treatment and Rehabilitation Training program was implemented in 1972 as a behaviour modification program. Inmates were placed in solitary confinement and were not allowed accessed to reading materials or other people until they had met a prescribed behaviour goal. For more information, see The Most Restrictive Alternative: The Origins, Functions, Control and Ethical Implications of the Supermax Prison, 1976-2010 by Keramet A. Reiter.
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Created by JB Oct. 2025
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