YOUNG LORD KILLED

Chicago (LNS) — 1969 — Manuel Ramos, a member of Chicago’s Young Lords Organization, was shot and killed by an off-duty cop on May 3. A comrade of Ramos, Raphael Rivera, was wounded in the incident.

The Shooting took place at a birthday party attended by a group of Lords, a radical Latin youth organization. Shouting in the street drew a number of partygoers to the door, from where they saw off-duty cop James Lamb waving a Luger. When asked to “take it easy” by one of the Lords, Lamb fired two shots, hitting Ramos in the head and wounding Rivera in the neck. Uniformed cops were on the scene immediately, and with the help of Lamb they arrested four Lords on charges of aggravated assault and battery. They then threw Ramos and Rivera into a paddy wagon and drove them to a hospital, where Ramos died in the Emergency Room.

At the bail hearing for the four arrested Lords, the DA came up with the incredible claim that a cop had been shot and critically wounded in the incident. Bail was set at $3,000 each.

Police have thus far refused to take any action against Lamb, though ten people saw him murder Ramos. On Monday, May 5, the Lords sponsored a memorial rally for Ramos. About 2,000 people marched through Latin and white working class neighborhoods, protesting the killing.

The incident is only the latest in a series of police harassments of the Lords, who have been organizing Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cubans in Chicago around such issues as welfare rights, local control of community planning boards, and Third World Unity.

Stop & Frisk 1968

Vietnam. Photo by Paul Temple for Helix (1969)

McKinley Morganfield aka Muddy Waters. Helix (1969)

Interview here

San Francisco Mime Troupe comes to Seattle in 1969.

Shit Pie Next Time!  

The leaflet entitled “Cops Eat Pie” was written and distributed by me on Mother’s Day after the first Be-In in Lincoln Park. It was designed to help toughen a hippie-oriented Chicago community. We planned a music Be-In every Sunday until the Festival of Life in order to get the people of Chicago used to us. Needless to say, the cops did not heed the advice and sure enough, on August 25th we took to the streets. —Abbie Hoffman, Revolution for the Hell of It (1968)

The flyer was reprinted in the Revolution for the Hell of It, but this particular scan accompanied a review of the book in the Seattle underground newspaper Helix (1969)

Dennis Hopper being interviewed about Easy Rider by the guys from the Seattle underground newspaper Helix in 1969.

More photos and the (really dope) interview here

The scan is taken from the backpage of a 1969 issue of the Seattle underground newspaper Helix, but other than the placement of ‘Beware of Chance Acquaintances!’ it is an exact reprint of an actual poster put out in the 1920s by the American Social Hygiene Association as a part of the Progressive-Era effort at sex education. The message finds new resonance in the era of free love.

excerpt as review. so it goes.

a born terror, a rebel without a pause. i never had a good christmas, so who is santa claus?

heading out to the woods so there won’t be any posts for a few days. happy holidays and stay safe…