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Looking Back
Sandi Stein | Judy Goldhaft | Theodore Roszak | Art Gerrans | Claudia King | Charles Perry | Peter Coyote | Joel Selvin | Peter Berg | Mary Kasper
Peter Berg was active in the civil rights movement before moving to San Francisco. In California, he performed street theater with the radical San Francisco Mime Troupe and became a member of the anarchist performance group, the Diggers.
I suppose the Summer of Love was a kind of Camelot of the psychedelic revolution. And it was a strongly influential period for mores and culture that followed it. I think it was a breeding ground for most of the social movements that have come since then: ecology, the women's movement, the gay movement.
And more liberated ideas about sexuality, and about the freedom of one's own mind, flowed forward from that. It was a strange culmination of rejection of what had come before it.
And in the deepest sense, The Diggers provided a horizon that includes not only a rejection of material values, but a celebration of the self and personal expression that would be necessary ingredients in a liberated human society and personality.
I think The Diggers' role in it was to establish a kind of a benchmark along the road of what is human liberation.
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