Complete text of "The Yippie Manifesto"
Issued in 1968.
Reprinted from "Takin' It to the Streets:" A Sixties Reader, 2003.

"Let's parade in the thousands to the places where the votes are counted and let murderous racists feel our power."

One of the most striking social trends of the 1960s was the emergence of the counterculture, a minority culture that distinguished itself by being against the majority culture. American society had always had countercultures—groups of primarily young people who rejected the values of mainstream society in favor of ways of living that they found more authentic or liberating. In...