| Stew Albert | |
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| Born | December 4, 1939 Brooklyn, New York |
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| Died | January 30, 2006 (aged 66) Portland, Oregon |
| Known for | Political activism, writing |
| Spouse | Judy Gumbo |
Stewart Edward "Stew" Albert (December 4, 1939 – January 30, 2006) was a co-founder of the Yippies, an anti-Vietnam War political activist, and an important figure in the New Left movement of the 1960's. "December 4th" redirects here For the song by Jay-Z, see December 4th (song. Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Events 1648 - Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster is signed ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States, near the Confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers Oregon ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Activism, in a general sense can be described as intentional action to bring about social or political change "December 4th" redirects here For the song by Jay-Z, see December 4th (song. Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1648 - Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster is signed ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The Youth International Party, whose members were commonly called Yippies, was a highly theatrical and Anti-authoritarian Political party established in The New Left were the Left-wing movements in different countries in the 1960s and 1970s that unlike the earlier leftist focus on union activism instead adopted a
Born in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, NY to a New York City employee, he had a relatively conventional political life in his youth, though he was among those who protested the execution of Caryl Chessman. Sheepshead Bay is a Bay separating the Mainland of Brooklyn, New York City from the eastern portion of Coney Island, the latter originally Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. Caryl Whittier Chessman ( May 27, 1921 &ndash May 2, 1960) was a convicted robber and rapist who gained fame as a He graduated from Pace University, where he majored in politics and philosophy, and worked for a while for the City of New York welfare department. Pace University is a private, Co-educational, and comprehensive multi-campus University in the New York metropolitan area with campuses
In 1965, he left New York to go to San Francisco where he met the poet Allen Ginsberg at the City Lights Bookstore. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city Irwin Allen Ginsberg (ˈgɪnzbɝg (June 3 1926 &ndash April 5 1997 was an American Poet. City Within a few days he was volunteering at the Vietnam Day Committee in Berkeley, California. The Vietnam Day Committee ( VDC) was a coalition of left-wing political groups student groups labour organizations and pacifist religions in the United States of America Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. It was there he met Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman with whom he co-founded the Youth International Party or Yippies, Bobby Seale and other Black Panther Party members, and became a full-time political activist of whom Rubin once said that he was a better educator than most of the professors. Jerry Rubin ( July 14, 1938 – November 28, 1994) was a high-profile left-wing American social activist during the 1960s and Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman (November 30 1936 &ndash April 12 1989 was a radical social and political activist in the United States who co-founded the Robert George "Bobby" Seale (born October 22, 1936 in Dallas Texas) is an American Civil rights activist who along The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a Marxist / Maoist African-American organization established
Among the many activities he participated in with the Yippies were throwing money off the balcony at the New York Stock Exchange, the Exorcism of the Pentagon and the 1968 Presidential campaign of a pig named Pigasus. The New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE) is a Stock exchange based in New York City. Exorcism (from Late Latin exorcismus, from Greek exorkizein - to adjure is the practice of evicting Demons or other evil The Pentagon is the Headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia. Pigasus was a Pig and was a satiric candidate for President of the United States for the Youth International Party ( Yippies. He was arrested at the disturbances outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention and was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Chicago Seven case. Chicago Convention redirects here for the Convention on International Civil Aviation for the event also referred to by this name In the Criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between Natural persons to break the law at some time in the future and in some cases with at least one overt act The Chicago Seven were seven (originally eight known as the Chicago Eight) defendants charged with conspiracy inciting to Riot, and other charges related His wife, Judy Gumbo Albert, claimed, according to his New York Times Obituary, this was because he was working as a correspondent for the Berkeley Barb. The Berkeley Barb was an Underground newspaper that was published in Berkeley California, from 1965 to the early 1980s
In 1970, he ran for sheriff of Alameda County, CA in revenge for "getting my balls sprayed with hot, painful chemicals as a welcome-to-prison health measure" after being arrested in 1969. Alameda County is a county in the US state of California. It occupies most of the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. Although he lost to Frank Madigan, he still had 65,000 votes over the sheriff that supervised his incarceration. Frank Madigan was sheriff of Alameda County CA from 1963 to 1975
After Timothy Leary escaped from a California Jail, Albert arranged for him to stay with Eldridge Cleaver in Tunisia. Timothy Francis Leary ( October 22, 1920 &ndash May 31, 1996) was an American Writer, Psychologist, Futurist Eldridge Cleaver ( August 31, 1935 &ndash May 1, 1998) was an Author, a prominent American Civil rights leader Tunisia (تونس Tūnis officially the Tunisian Republic ( is a country located in North Africa. In 1971, he was called before several grand juries investigating the planting of a bomb in the U. S. Capitol and an alleged plot to bomb a Manhattan bank. Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York He was not charged in either case. In the early 1970s, he and his wife sued the FBI for planting an illegal wiretap in his house. They won a $20,000 settlement and, in 1978, two FBI supervisors were fired for this action.
In 1984, he and his wife moved to Portland, Oregon. Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States, near the Confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers They co-edited an anthology, The Sixties Papers: Documents of a Rebellious Decade, that collected material that originated in the Civil Rights Movement, Students for a Democratic Society, the anti-war movement, the counterculture, and the women's movement. The American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968 refers to the reform movements in the United States aimed at abolishing racial discrimination against African Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS) was historically a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations Opposition to US involvement in the Vietnam War is significant because domestic protest in the U The Counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s refers to a period between 1960 and 1973 that began in the United States as a reaction against Second-wave feminism refers to a period of Feminist activity which began during the 1960s and lasted through the late 1970s
His memoir, Who the Hell is Stew Albert?, was published by Red Hen Press in 2005. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He ran the Yippie Reading Room until he died of liver cancer brought on by hepatitis in 2006. The liver is a vital organ in the human body and is present in Vertebrates and some other animals Cancer (medical term Malignant Neoplasm) is a class of Diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled Hepatitis (plural hepatitides) implies injury to the Liver characterized by the presence of Inflammatory cells in the tissue of Two days before his death he posted on his blog, "My politics haven't changed. "
In the film Steal This Movie! Albert is played by Donal Logue. Steal This Movie ( 2000) is an American Biographical film of 1960s radical figure Abbie Hoffman. Donal Francis Logue (born February 27, 1966) is a Canadian Actor.
Sources
- The Spies Who Thought We Were Messy by Stew Albert
- Almost Sheriff Yippie by Stew Albert
- Associated Press obituary 1 February 2006
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