Conspiracy In The Streets

“The Conspiracy in the streets needs: freedom, actors, peace, turf, money, sunshine, musicians, instruments, people, props, cars, air, water, costumes, sound equipment, love, guns, freaks, friends, anarchy, Huey free, a truck, airplanes, power, glory and old clothes, space truth, Nero, paint, help, rope, swimming hole, ice cream, dope, nookie, moonship, Om, lords, health, no hassles, land, pigs, time, patriots, spacesuits, a Buick, people’s justice, Eldridge, lumber, panthers, real things, good times. - From a pamphlet distributed in The Week before the Chicago Eight trial “Conspiracy? Hell, we couldn’t agree on lunch.” - ABBIE HOFFMAN”

Jon Wiener is a contributing editor to The Nation and is host and producer of “Start Making Sense,” The Nation’s weekly podcast. An emeritus professor of U.S. history at UC Irvine, he is the author of Gimme Some Truth, Come Together, Historians in Trouble (The New Press), and, most recently, Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties (with Mike Davis). He lives in Los Angeles. Tom Hayden (19392016) was a California state senator for eighteen years and was the author of Irish on the Inside, The Zapatista Reader, Rebel, and Street Wars (The New Press). Jules Feiffer is a Pulitzer Prizewinning cartoonist, novelist, and playwright based in New York City.