Do Your Own Thing.

June 11, 2009
1960s, Artists, Hippies, Road, The West

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Free Store.

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The Diggers were one of the legendary groups in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury. The Diggers took their name from the original English Diggers who had promulgated a vision of society free from private property, and all forms of buying and selling. The San Francisco Diggers evolved out of two Radical traditions that thrived in the SF Bay Area in the mid-1960s: the bohemian/underground art/theater scene, and the New Left/civil rights/peace movement.

“Do Your Own Thing.” Words of wisdom from the Diggers.

via The Digger Archives

Comments

3 Responses to “Do Your Own Thing.”

  1. mary
    on June 11th, 2009 at 6:42 pm

    the NYC diggers HQ/free store was on the block i live on now. east 10th street. yes!

  2. kellyr
    on June 11th, 2009 at 10:27 pm

    Awesome! I would like to check that out. Recently there was a temporary Free Store in the Financial District—I wonder if that had to do with the Diggers…or just free wheeling art store type thing. Hmmm.

  3. Whimsy
    on June 16th, 2009 at 5:38 pm

    I admire the communal spirit, but there’s an incoherence in it that bothers me: how do you “do your own thing” without your own resources?

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