biography
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| male
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| (1938–94)
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| biography:
| Activist, writer, and entrepreneur, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. A reporter for the Cincinnati Post and Times-Star (1956–61), he was an anti-war organizer and co-chairman for the Vietnam Day Committee, Berkeley, CA (1965). He ran for mayor of Berkeley in 1966. The first person ever to testify before the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities (HUAC) in costume (1966), he was a co-founder of the Youth International Party (Yippie) (1967) and was an activist in Berkeley (until 1972). A vice-presidential candidate on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket (1968), a defendant in the Chicago 7 trial (1969), and author of Do It! (1969), he turned to holistic healing, led workshops at Esalen (1973–4), and was a therapist as part of the Fischer–Hoffman Psychic Therapy Process (1974). Repudiating activism, he became a stockbroker and then organized Jerry Rubin's Business Networking Salon in New York (1982). He and former compatriot, Abbie Hoffman, staged about 40 Yippie-versus-Yuppie debates nationwide (1985–6) before Rubin turned to selling vitamins in major newspapers (1990s). |
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