The Public is Any Fool On The Street The Public is Any Fool On The Street PUBLIC INFORMATION FOOLS ALL OF THE PUBLIC ALL OF THE TIME The Public is Any Fool On The Street PUBLIC STREETS CONVEY MACHINES -- ONLY A FOOL WALKS IN TRAFFIC The Public is Any Fool On The Street The Public is Any Fool On The Street [graphic rules] 2 (TWO) SQUARE EVENTS (for any foot on the street) THE D I G G E R SQUARE [graphic of a painting frame] A square frame to view reality "An informed public is its own worst enemy." -- M. McLuhan Public enemies watch reality — don't change that dial — an eventful new season of enemy spectacles FREE FRAME OF REFERENCE to be worn around the neck, carried, displayed Watch the D I G G E R news! [graphic lines separating columns] THE INTERSECTION GAME [diagram of a street intersection with dashed lines crossing each direction] Any number of fools can play Game Board formed by intersection of public streets OBJECT: Complete all designs within diagram Lesser Triangle Greater Triangle Double Triangle The Square STYLE: DON'T WAIT DON'T WALK (umbrella step, stroll, cake-walk, sombersault, [sic] finger-crawl, squat- jump, pilgrimmage, philly dog, etc.) BRING A SQUARE TO DIG THE INTERSECTION GAME TEST MATCH — HAIGHT AND MASONIC — MONDAY OCT 31 — 5:30 pm

Broadside announcing a rally in the 'panhandle' of Golden Gate Park on October 6, 1966 in reaction to the California law banning LSD and that similar rallies would also be held that day in New York, Los Angeles, London and Amsterdam. The event was envisioned by San Francisco Oracle editors Allen Cohen and Michael Bowen as an alternative to protest and as a celebration of the psychedelic life. The Grateful Dead (performing their new song "Alice D. Millionaire"), Janis Joplin, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Wildflower played for approximately 800 people, and the event's success helped prepare the way for the Human Be-In on January 14, 1967.This copy is signed by two of the organizers of the event, Allen Cohen and Michael Bowen.

This issue includes a full page article/ad for the Love Pagent Rally and publication of “A prophecy of a Declaration of Independence” And a long interview with Janis Joplin and the members of Big Brother and the Holding company. Full page ad for a concert by “The Loading Zone” and others.

The Mimeograph Revolution was an active period of small-scale, non-commercial, literary publishing facilitated by the accessibility of the mimeograph. It is distinguished from the traditional private press by its emphasis on quick, cheap production.Presses associated with the Mimeo Revolution often published experimental and underground work, and were important venues for poets, writers and artists ignored by mainstream magazines. Their emphasis was often (but not always) on poetry, including work by the poets of the San Francisco Renaissance. Unlike mainstream literary magazines, they were usually published by the poets and communities of poets whose work appeared in them. They were also widely used by grass roots groups, especially campus-based groups, opposing the Vietnam War during the 1960s and 1970s to announce upcoming demonstrations, fund raising events as well as regular communications with their memberships through newsletters, emergency announcements, etc. The low cost of acquiring a (usually used) machine, and the reliability low cost and ease of operation made the medium very attractive for groups with limited resources producing up to a few hundred copies per stencil. As we shall see, experiments with color inks developed by the Communication Company, the publsihing arm of the Diggers, a loose collection of radicals living in the Haight Ashbury district in 1966 and 1967, resulted in broadening the appeal of the messages appearing in Mimeograph publications. announcements of all types of cultural events (demonstrations, rock concerts, poetry readings, etc.).This issue of Aspects, published in October of 1966, is representative. Articles include poems, stories, an antiwar editorial and a photographic essay of modern American Church Architecture. This copy was mailed as an exchange sample from the publisher in Eugene Oregon to the Oracle, the famous Haight Ashbury hip newspaper, located at 1542 Haight Street. Two U.S. #1303, 4¢ Abraham Lincoln Prominent Americans Series Coil stamps are tied to the piece by an undated machine cancel.

This first issue includes the INNERSPACE manifesto that states “Our central intention is to serve as a clearing – house for information and as a form for the discussion of the use of psychedelics and the applications of that experience in the active life.”Several book reviews and announcements concerning psychedelic use and experiences.

A counterculture psychedelic magazine, featuring drug and alternative lifestyle articles. This issue feautures: "Turn Off Politics" ( regarding LSD legislation), by Peter Weinberg; Pilgrim's Promise: Proposed Facilities for the Neo-American Church at Cranberry Lake, New York (with plans); The Rhinestone in the Artichoke, Arthur Kleps discussion of LSD, Timothy Leary and the philosophy of psychedelics.

A counterculture psychedelic magazine, featuring drug and alternative lifestyle articles. This issues contains an articles about dropping out, psychedelics and the non-violent revolution, the San Francisco Diggers vs. the Provos, and a couple of reprints of the early Digger manifestos.

A counterculture psychedelic magazine, featuring drug and alternative lifestyle articles. This issue is printed in only green ink. It includes a proposal for “The Bombardment and Annihilation of the Planet Saturn,” and describes same as the ultimate objective of the Neo-American Church: “Upon the successful completion of the task, with the dispersal of the malefic energy of this gloomy orb into the cosmos (which, if too seriously affected, will be our next objective), the Millennium, or golden age of mankind, will commence without further ado, and it will be possible to dismantle not only the apparatus of the church but all instrumentalities of the Divine Will; to permit Peter Rabbit free access to the garden of Farmer Brown.” There is also a report on the recently held “Human Be-In” in Haight Ashbury, two articles about “drop CITY,” and an article on the psychedelic experience & visionary art by Lisa Bieberman.

A counterculture psychedelic magazine, featuring drug and alternative lifestyle articles. This is the “American Indian Issue” and contains a letter referring to issue no. 4. Contains articles and reports on drugs, be-ins, etc. with correspondents in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Beirut, Berkeley, Nashville, later also Bombay, Amsterdam, Cleveland, etc.

The focus of this issue is the upcoming Oct 30th FESTIVAL OF PEOPLES.There is a “Festival of Peoples” poster and a “health and the family” poster laid in. Articles include an update on the street tree planting program, organization of the Festival of Peoples fair, the SNCC report about making parks fit for children, complications underlying the resignation of the ex-Director of the Welfare Rights Committee, and a rent strike by six families against their slumlord.

THE ESTATE means it Thalidomide Babies. THE ESTATE means it Six Million Jews. THE ESTATE means it Hiroshima. THE ESTATE means it David Carnevale. THE ESTATE means it Firing Squads, Gas Chambers, Electric Chairs, Tar and Feathering, Crucifixtion, Garroting, Hanging, The Rack, Dunking, Drawn and Quartered, Burned At The Stake, Economic WARWARWARWARWAR. And so by THE WAY YOU ARE BY YOURSELF, ANY FOOL ON THE STREET. NOTHING IS REALLY IMPORTANT. IF ONLY THEY LEFT YOU ALONE. NOT A CHANCE. DEATH IS THE LIFE OF THE ESTATE. YOU AS CONSUMER ARE A FROZEN PRODUCT. YOU LIVE IN THE CEMENT ENVIRONMENT OF THE AUTHORITY INSTRUCTORS. AND IF YOU SAY THE RIGHT WORDS THEY'LL GIVE YOU 20 YEARS EVEN IF YOU DON'T. THE D I G G E R S .