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Alongside civil rights, the antiwar movement dominated American landscapes of art and protest in 1968. Both came together in the Youth International Party, or Yippies, founded by Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hofmann. Emerging from the heady currents swirling in Greenwich Village (see south table case), the Yippies drew on tactics of guerilla theater and Happenings to stage acts of mischievous insubordination that provoked much media attention. Hoffman and Rubin made headlines with pranks such as the March on the Pentagon, where Allen Ginsberg led chants supposedly intended to end the Vietnam War by “exorcising” and “levitating” the building in 1967. A few months later Hoffman threw fistfuls of (fake) dollars from the balcony of the New York Stock Exchange, setting off a mad scramble for cash on the trading floor that made quite a scene. Things became more serious in 1968, when Yippies occupied prominent spaces in New York in a series of Be-Ins and Be-Outs (above) inspired by the popular sit-i...

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