Hello Comrades, brothers and sisters, and welcome to a new series, Armed Love, the Revolutionary

Counterculture of the 60s.

I'll be doing this this fall and winter looking back at a decade that they say, if you remember,

you weren't there, man.

But another way of looking at it is that those who were there remember it a bit

askew because they were let's say caught up in the moment and it's up to us the

millennial and Zoomer generation to look back at the revolutionary decade,

defeat the self-satisfied boomer narratives that are too often associated with it,

and discover what went right, what went wrong, and what a long strange trip it's been.

I'm going to try to stop doing the 60s cliches.

It's annoying even me.

For this episode I'm here with Sean Lovett,

who wrote a really great dissertation called Mimeo Insurection,

the 60s Underground Press and the Long Hot Summers of Riots.

And he wrote another great essay called Unfinished Domes, Anarchist Communes in the 60s.

And I want to have him to talk to Peter Coyote, the founder of The Diggers, who probably

more than any one singular group define the 60s

counterculture recognizable and media depictions today. So thanks for joining us

Sean. Why don't you tell us a little bit about your interest in 60s

revolutionary counterculture?

Hi, well, my interest sort of stems from trying

to like look at how people responded to mass uprisings in the 60s,

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