C.C. Ruder
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About the time Ronald Reagan was
being sworn in, Youth International
Party spokesman Dana Beal addressed a
rally of forty people in Franklin Park,
just two blocks from the White House
and directly across from the Drug
Enforcement Agency Building. "It's just
like New Year's Eve, Ronald Reagan
being president; the big ball is coming
down, and it's 1958!" Participants smok
ed marijuana, and unfurled banners with
slogans such as "Shoot Bush First" and
"Ronald Reagan, Mobster of the Year."
Yippie Pieman Aron Kay was dres
sed in a "Bonzo" gorilla suit, and offered
observers a tray with Ronald Reagan's
head. Three hundred persons attended
the Yippie counter-inaugural ball the
night before. Beal opened the festivities
with, "In these waning hours of freedom,
let the merriment begin!" Boogie/Rock
artist Root Boy Slim belted out "Shah's
Gone."
On a much more serious note, 600
anti-Nazi, anti-Klan, Puerto Rican Na
tionalists, Gay Rights, Native American
Rights, and anti-Nuclear proponents
met at the Lincoln Meme- - * -
Extravaganza
marched to the White House Elipse,
where they were joined by the Yippies.
The group was reminded of the Atlanta
and Buffalo murders, the acquittal of the
Greensboro Nazis and Klansmen, and
the plight of the American Indian.
Michu Kaku, the first non-govern
ment, non-industry physicist to enter the
containment building at Three Mile
Island, told the crowd, "There is one
thing the government and the nuclear
industry fear more than a meltdown--the
American public!"
Five persons from Carlisle, who
chose to remain anonymous, were among
the counter-inaugural ralliers. They said
they were unaware of any organized
opposition, but knew something like this
would take place.
ERA supporters from Harrisburg
NOW sponsored a bus trip, although no
organized rally was planned.
The 50th inauguration had all the
elements of a motion picture: drama,
suspense, and comedy; protaganists and
anti-taganists (sic).
The 1984 sequel is a must. Hooray for
Hollywood!
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Photo by Bill Cass
A Washington policeman videotapes Yippie smoke-in at Franklin Park
Photo by Brian Downey
Thursday, January 22,1981
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Yippie spokesman Dana Beal (taken during Democratic National Convention
N.Y., N.Y.) Photo by Bill Cass
Frank Sinatra and Jimmy Stewart at the inauguration
Photo by Brian Downey
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