In his book '' A Trumpet to Arms : Alternative Media in America '' , author David Armstrong points out that the Yippie hybrid of performance art , Guerilla theatre and political irreverence was often in direct conflict with the sensibility of the 60s American Left/peace movement : The Yippies ' unorthodox approach to revolution , which emphasized spontaneity over structure , and media blitz over community organizing , put them almost as much at odds with the rest of the left as with mainstream culture . Wrote ( Jerry ) Rubin in the '' Berkeley Barb '' , " The worst thing you can say about a demonstration is that it is boring , and one of the reasons that the peace movement has not grown into a mass movement is that the peace movement — its literature and its events — is a bore . Good theatre is needed to communicate revolutionary content . The House Un-American Activities Committee ( HUAC ) subpoenaed Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman of the Yippies in 1967 , and again in the aftermath of the 1968 Democratic National Convention . The Yippies used media attention to make a mockery of the proceedings : Rubin came to one session dressed as an American Revolutionary War soldier , and passed out copies of the United States Declaration of Independence to people in attendance . Then Rubin " blew giant gum bubbles while his co-witnesses taunted the committee with Nazi salutes " . Rubin also attended HUAC dressed as Santa Claus and a Viet Cong soldier
1968 Democratic National Convention
1968 Democratic National Convention
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