---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 19:13:16 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 'Yippie' Leader Departs with Idealism Intact
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1138677918136310.xml&coll=7 The Oregonian January 31, 2006 'Yippie' leader departs with idealism intact Radical - Activist Stew Albert continued to pursue social change longafter the 1960s ended By Amy Martinez Starke Stew Albert, a co-founder of the theatrically unruly YouthInternational Party -- whose members were more commonly known asYippies -- and one of the last remaining radical leftists of acolorful cohort that once included Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, BobbySeale, Huey Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, John Lennon, Timothy Leary andTom Hayden, died Monday in Portland of liver cancer. He was66. Mr. Albert was clubbed by police during the iconic 1968 anti-warDemocratic National Convention riot, and was named as an unindictedco-conspirator at the Chicago 7 trial; seven others were indicted forconspiring to start a riot at the convention. The prosecution readarticles he'd written for an underground newspaper. The Yippies were a political and cultural group which in 1968 advanceda pig as candidate for president and in 1970 invaded Disneyland for aday. In 1970, Mr. Albert ran for sheriff of Alameda County, Calif.,but lost. (He carried the city of Berkeley, though.) A lifelong radical and activist, unlike many aging '60s radicals andhippies who grew into careerists who worried about their own kids anddrugs, Mr. Albert continued to carry an idealistic torch for the1960s, marching, protesting, speaking and writing on behalf of radicalsocial change. Mr. Albert moved to Portland in 1984 with his wife, Judy Gumbo, whomhe married in 1977, and young daughter. He worked as a freelancewriter and editor from his Northeast Portland home, helped raise hisdaughter and enjoyed his reputation as a hell-raiser. He was active inNorthwest Coalition for Human Dignity, an anti-racism group, and waspresident of Oregon Jewish Agenda, which in the mid-'80s startedpromoting Arab (Palestinian)- Jewish dialogue. "I came here to bring the holy spirit of the '60s to this younger generation," he said in 2000. His memoir, "Who the Hell is Stew Albert?" -- so namedbecause of a question Howard Stern posed on his radio show -- waspublished by Red Hen Press in 2005. "It's less a case of local boy makes good, more a case of localboy makes trouble," Mr. Albert said. Mr. Albert was born Dec. 4, 1939, in Brooklyn, N.Y., an only child. He graduated from Pace University and in 1964 began organizing againstthe Vietnam War. In 1988, he attended a 20-year reunion in Chicago of 1968 protesters. "I imagine Americans secretly miss the passion of my generation,"he wrote of that experience. In 1996, Mayor Richard M. Daley, son of former Mayor Richard J. Daley,invited him to Chicago with his pal Tom Hayden (a former roommate),for a day of reconciliation. Mr. Albert shook hands with the younger Mayor Daley. Mr. Albert was co-author with his wife of "The Sixties Papers"anthology. He ran the Yippie Reading Room online and continued to blog until theday before his death, at http://members.aol.com/stewa/stew.html He is survived by his wife, Judy Gumbo Albert, and daughter, JessicaPearl Albert. A funeral will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Havurah Shalom. Remembrances to Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette or RosenbergFund for Children. Arrangements by Holman's. Amy Martinez Starke: 503-221-8534;[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _______________________________________________________ portside (the left side in nautical parlance) is a news, discussion and debate service of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. It aims to provide varied material of interest to people on the left. For answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.portside.org/faq To subscribe, unsubscribe or change settings: http://lists.portside.org/mailman/listinfo/portside To submit material, paste into an email and send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (postings are moderated) For assistance with your account: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To search the portside archive: https://lists.portside.org/pipermail/portside/
