The hippie movement

 Hippy

What is it

The hippie movement is a counter-culture movement that appeared in the 1960s in the United States before spreading to the rest of the Western world. The hippies, largely derived from the post-war baby boom, rejected traditional values, the lifestyle of their parents' generation, and the consumer society.

Where does it come

The term hippie first found popularity in San Francisco with Herb Caen, who was a journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle.

The hippies were influenced by Jesus Christ Buddha and Ghandi with their peaceful vision and major interest in love rather than war

 Diogenes of Sinope and the cynics were also early forms of hippie culture  ive siècle before the Christ. The cynics were against conventional desire like wealth or power

They wanted to live in agreement with nature.

After that the Direct precursors in the 1950s were members of the Beat generation literary movement, whose iconic figures William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac were references for the hippie movement.

“on the road” Kerouac

Convictions

The hippie movement was for the peace and love

They were for a free life in community.

They were against the Vietnam war and for non-violence.

They love music and drugs.

The HIPPIES wanted to change the world by the "FLOWER POWER" and hang flowers at the end of rifles.

harmony with nature, communal living, artistic experimentation

Flower Power was a slogan used by hippies during the 1960s and 1970s.

The flower was a symbol of their nonviolent ideology. The expression originated in the 1967 Summer of Love, a rally in San Francisco during which hippies were instructed to wear flowers in their hair and distribute them around them.

What did they do

They made a lot of demonstration and event

They supported the Civil Rights Movement in the first half of the 1960s, traveling across the country to take part in marches against segregation in the South.

They made a lot of demonstration against Viet nam war and there was some group like

« living theatre » theatre which was a company engaged during the 1960s against the Viet nam war

From the Hippie movement came a multitude of social causes: feminism, ecology, or the evolution of mentalities towards more philanthropy.

They made the Human Be-In in 1967 (an event) 30,000 hippies gathering in Golden Gate Park they listened to music ., San Francisco, and Monterey Pop Festival[7] popularized hippie culture, leading to the Summer of Love on the West Coast of the United States, and the 1969 Woodstock Festival on the East Coast

When the Summer of Love finally ended, thousands of hippies left San Francisco, a large minority of them heading "back to the land". These hippies created the largest number of intentional communities or communes in the history of the United States where they listened to psychedelic music, embraced the sexual revolution, and many used drugs such as marijuana, LSD, and psilocybin mushrooms to explore altered states of consciousness.

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