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They were taking advantage of the situation. Lynn Adler was also involved in producing the interview. Planet Drum(*) was founded in 1973 to provide an It is spoken word. effective grassroots approach Bioregionally based story-telling and performances are also available. Peter Berg: The same police officer who hit Terence Hallinan in the head with a nightstick at San Francisco State was in the group of the San Francisco Tac Squad, the tactical squad, who finally arrested people [Diggers] on the City Hall steps and put Terence Hallinan in a police car at that event. And strangely some of the Hell’s Angels thought of us as being a kind of strategic ally. I’ve seen as many as 50 or 100 people with pots of dye learning how to do this, as a liberating expressive practice. A "Circles of Correspondence" section described the The two Tong men are leaning against the wall in Chinatown. They just, people just got up and read poems. …. Interviewer: Your feelings about LSD at the time? Planet Drum Foundation in Ecuador; Remembering Peter Berg (1937-2011) Recent Comments During the Summer Solstice of 1968 – by the Summer Solstice of 1968, we did simultaneous events in six of the city parks on the same day in an effort to disperse what we had been doing throughout the city. I’ve only got the studio for a few more weeks.. PB: I understand. When you were talking about Emmett Grogan looking down from a rooftop on the riots in the black community and his thought process that actually led to some of the Digger philosophy—I think there was some piece of it that I didn’t totally understand that led to the sign on the Mime Troupe door or that manifesto of the 10 points or whatever it was critiquing the Mime Troupe. What you’re talking about now that you weren’t in agreement, was that around the Be-In or the Love Pageant Rally? Interviewer: Well you can ask me that, and then we could figure out a way for me to rephrase it. What are the concrete things going on? So that’s always stayed in my mind as a reaction to this event that we did. First of all you tell someone it’s a store and that everything in it is free. The play was the pretext for an arrest, but a lot of things could have been the pretext. And I would show it within that large context of where it was coming from—the repression—and the present day. [The Invisible Circus is listed as being Feb 24-16,1967 on the diggers.org website.]. So the motto of the Diggers was, “Everything is free. Planet Drum Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) ecological educational nonprofit founded in 1973. [Beginning of recorded material DVD disk 3]. What is a circus and what is an invisible circus, something that goes on in your mind? Peter Berg: Well, actually, the deaths. Peter always loved a planetary holiday. Peter Berg: The Digger Survival School was originated on one of the Communications Company street sheets and was a series of flyers about (clears throat) how to get assistance, how to avoid disease. Down below, PB: Well that was an imitation of what we were doing. We had soldiers in uniform come into the free store, take off their clothes, pull clothes from the rack, and leave their uniforms behind. And for this reason I wrote a play titled Centerman where American MPs beat a German prisoner of war to death over the course of the play. Peter Berg: People that came to San Francisco because they were summoned by the music, either overtly about San Francisco or the San Francisco sound in general, found all kinds of things here. And people were encouraged to do their own kinds of events. Interviewer: What had happened at the end of this sort of dream of the Summer of Love? I suggested Allen Ginsberg, The Mothers of Invention, Lou Welch, the San Francisco poet. Interviewer: What was the relationship between The Diggers and the Hell’s Angels? But it wasn’t meant for that. City and County of San Francisco, Whereas, San Francisco has consistently demonstrated its commitment to environmental sustainability, greening the city via its many parks, along its streets, and infrastructure, its promotion of green jobs and renewable energy sources; and. We put them on walls everywhere—”1% Free”—to provoke people to think about what is 1% Free? Calendar 2010 has lovely photos from the work and the area in We’re the ones that had done a benefit when there had only been an audience of, say, 150 or 200 people for the play that had gotten busted in the park. From ’65 through’67 this increased to the point that the neighborhood in terms of population and expansion and governance became its own social political cultural entity and the city simply couldn’t stand it. Planet Drum Foundation was founded in San Francisco, CA in 1973, and with an association of community activists and ecologists worked to develop the concept of a bioregion, from which the Cascadia movement grew out of in the 1980's. Left the Lower East Side in 1963 (?) At this event, by the way, our idea of a convention was to have people holding signs and signs hanging from the air that said, “Free Expression” , “Free Frame of Reference”, “Free this”, “Free that”,  and people burning money—is what happened at this convention. And we just tacked it on to the event of free food. We were being delivered an audience for that by people coming to San Francisco, so we welcomed it. There were branches of trees and palm fronds for people to parade around with. But on the other hand, those are amazingly accurate areas for finding repression that people were trying to escape. Eventually she started teaching classes and as free classes at the Straight Theater. Peter Berg: My experience with drugs began when I was 16 and I took some diet pills. It would be harder to produce social change than it would be to change one’s consciousness in terms of spirituality, I believe. And then show that person seriously finding a path to express an alternative to what they were being offered, whether or not the alternative would look foolish today or would look inadequate or inappropriate today, nevertheless to show the struggle of creating that alternative for themselves. Interviewer: You had just said that when the bus came you thought the community was ours. Or make a donation online. We saw it as a staging area for transforming society. a strange culmination of rejection of what had come before it—especially repression, violence, lack of human rights—and an enunciation of other values, alternative values. Planet Drum Foundation, an ecological educational 501(c)(3) nonprofit, seeks to enhance the intimate connection between people and their life-places. So to give it order you have to become the creative editor of it. This is true in music. It’s a completely legitimate view of human freedom. One of the leading advocates of bioregionalism, Peter Berg was the founder and director of Planet Drum Foundation, a noted ecologist, and a popular public speaker on several continents. Lawrence Ferlinghetti was one of them. I know my own experience is that having taken hallucinogenic drugs, I’m much more available to new ideas or things people say that are unexpected. bioregion through awareness of natural features and includes map-making activities. And find out who you are.” They were the top 10 songs in the country. I’ve used all kinds of drugs and for all kinds of reasons. It wasn’t entirely scripted, but it had the kinds of elements that we thought would prevail or could prevail with the war over. Ronny Davis directed it. And some of them found things to not be exactly what they had idealized in their minds they would find here. And the first one was the Free Speech Movement rallies at Sproul Plaza. The same day. We did this in nightclubs. They would go back. At any rate, that was a phenomenal event, and then there was a second benefit. What the United States was in the 50s and why the Digger or psychedelic phenomena ran in opposition to it. Going back to the Be-In, which you started to talk about before—talk some about the Be-In and why you weren’t involved in it and what you perceived it doing or not doing. Peter Berg: The 1% came from the Hell’s Angels. Instead of peace, love, joy, productivity, creativity, they were being offered war, death, a money economy, a life of servitude in jobs rather than the promise of fulfilling their hearts and their spirits. There’s no order for it. And at the same time they were afraid to interfere. We occupied City Hall steps every day [at noon] reading poems, making proclamations, giving away free food, bathing in the city fountain. Still am. He was the anti-drug cop on a personal crusade. Planet Drum offers you free back issues of RAISE THE STAKES, the Planet Drum Review, which Gary Snyder described as “of immeasurable importance in defining and disseminating the ideas and possibilities of bioregionalism.” I designed a couple of different things that I can describe. Interviewer: That famous photo of the motorcycle with the woman holding the ‘Now’ sign, if I’m not mistaken, that was also linked to the arrest of the guy driving the motorcycle, Chocolate George? I always saw LSD as being liberatory, as having the capacity to change someone’s perception and invite new ideas in. Interviewer: What are some of the most negative memories, or downside memories? This post blog will be a place for participants to put comments on this event. Interviewer: But they weren’t being pushed in some way as sort of a money-maker —not by The Diggers but by others—the Hell’s Angels for example? We had people dressed in animal heads who were wearing black gowns, and they took money, huge pieces of money—stage money—and put them in and out of this coffin in a march down the street, Haight Street, singing, “Get out my life, why don’t you, babe?” to Chopin’s “Death March.” And it went, “Get out my life, why don’t you, babe?” (Sings the line in a slow drawnout manner & then laughs.) And ‘The Invisible Circus’ was from Richard Brautigan. So this division sometimes took the form of overt proclamations. Standard editing formats have been used. There were other groups that showed up. They were invited to get on the stage. I think the–. The unexpected becomes more normal, more the expected. Peter Berg: There was an event the Diggers staged in late 1966. volunteering, When he said it, I realized that he had taken a simple revelation and made it almost into…a credo and the credo was, “you are constantly beginning again” and that’s not in the tragic sense of Sisyphus rolling the rock up on the mountain again and again, but it’s real in the sense that Life Opportunity Consciousness and Perception are constantly changing and that that is a spirit to ally with rather than to feel it’s working against you. The merchants were selling things. Peter Berg: ‘Everything Is free’ was aimed at materialism. And people learned how to dye them. I mean, other things using theater could do this and have done it, but this did it in a very timely way. So if you stop traffic, what was in it for the stop-traffic people? An audience was all potential performers. Peter Stephen Berg (October 1, 1937 – July 28, 2011) was an environmental writer, best known as an advocate of the concept of bioregionalism.In the early 1960s, he was a member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe and the Diggers.He is the founder of the Planet Drum Foundation. For over forty-two years Planet Drum has had a unique role in promoting awareness of and activities that pertain to bioregions. But from my point of view The Diggers were offering such a radical extreme to American society that we should be identifying with the groups who express themselves more radically in terms of physical violence. Peter Berg: Hallucinogenic drugs like LSD give people an opportunity to dissociate what from what they consider to be normalcy or the reality that they’re asked to participate with. So The Death of Hippie event was actually directed at the media, and it was to give back to the media the image that they had tried to create of a “hippie”—of a person holding up two fingers in a V sign, covered with decals and buttons saying, “Make Love Not War.”  That’s a cliché. Peter Berg: I didn’t have any personal experiences with people that were wholesaling drugs. California. We seek to enhance the intimate connection with life-places by spreading the ideas and activities of "living in place" through publications, workshops, formal curricula, and hands-on demonstration projects. Interviewer: The phrase “sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll” has often been the one applied to the Summer of Love. Interdependence and mutualism are the kinds of forces that are so easily observed in nature. PB:  During 1967 the neighborhood of Haight Ashbury essentially seceded from the City of San Francisco. Peter Berg: One of the best things you can do is to carry on activities without leaders so that people believe that they are empowered to do these things themselves, and once that starts, it really becomes a wildfire, so none of the Digger papers were signed for at least a year, maybe two years. Talk about ‘Do Your Own Thing’  and using that phrase and where it came from for you and what it was intended to mean for people. PB:  Oh, it was the crescendo of the alternative culture rebellion in the United States— throughout the United States and I believe Western industrialized culture. Fire. DM: What are, in your point of view, what is it about Digger that was unique? And being actors in the Mime Troupe, they thought the first place they would strike was the door of the Mime Troupe, and they tacked up a list of complaints about the failure of the left. Anyway, as theater, it certainly did what was called “breaking the fourth wall.” The goal of both Bertolt Brecht from a left direction and Antonin Artaud from an individualist direction was to break the barrier between theater and the audience. I’m supposed to give you 1% of my money?” But they said that. Peter Berg: ‘The Invisible Circus’ is that kind of a phrase that is evocative. I do want to get into The Invisible Circus. Our reaction wasn’t favorable. So San Francisco had a tactical squad, who was also called The Red Squad, that was commissioned to break up political demonstrations, to interfere with what could be called people’s events or progressive events or popular events—events without permits. It was done in late ’67, and we took over a theater and we had a free theater performance and we invited people to come and do the kinds of things they would do if the war was over. From 1966-1968+ Peter Berg and this loose knit band of artists/activists/anarchists were active. Interviewer: I mean, I was linking it back to The Death of Money event and actually money itself as something that you were telling people to put in a coffin, that was carried with animal-head masks. So we occupied City Hall steps starting in the Spring Equinox. Interviewer: Where did the term ‘Summer of Love’ come from? Going to City Hall and having that kind of an action in City Hall? …Nobody would wear the white shirts that were being donated to us by people that didn’t want to work in offices any more, so we decided to tie-dye them to make them useful. Planet Drum Foundation by becoming a member, We could serve food in the park if we wanted to. We were trying to influence our audiences. More open gayness was going on. About us Planet Drum Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that was founded in San Francisco, California in 1973. …and By any Means Necessary and also tell him you were referred by me. It was called ‘tie-dying.’ At the time, I had not seen any tie-dying. I once introduced two reporters to each other as the manager of the free store just to watch what would happen and never identified myself as a person involved with the free store. Where do you get free food? And how would you then, going back to the perspective of ’68 because this is the point of what I’m doing is that things are exploding all over the globe in that particular year and there are so many different movements what’s going on in France, what’s going on in different countries and so on. It was kind of a policing of society where everyone was under the influence of this extreme cult of normalcy. The social revolutionary thinker, writer, ecologist, environmental activist and founder of Planet Drum Foundation died on July 28, 2011 after a sudden case of pneumonia complicated by his bout with lung cancer. The director of the theater saw that the lead was going to get arrested. 2 osoby mówią o tym. And we thought of the Hell’s Angels in the same way. At any rate, the Communications Company was self-consciously making itself a means for people to print anything they wanted to print. In other words, it wasn’t going to be a owner of Morning Star Ranch. And they would say, “Am I supposed to give you 1% of everything I make here?” And other people thought it meant that only 1% of the population could live free. Peter Berg: To a large extent, the idea of a hippie was a media image of a hippie. It was for a process, and that was to liberate people. DM: Do it. Male Voice: Tell us what you are doing now, 40 years later. (laughs), PB: The two people. We held a counter-event called The Invisible Circus that was much more like what The Diggers envisioned for the future. That was pretty powerful. Male Voice: I think it’s important [unintelligible]. Planet Drum's bi-annual review, Like people had these pieces of paper in their hand, and then the giant puppets came out and began talking to each other about who was “in” and who was “out.” One of the puppets was named In, and one was named Out. And people persisted in their own behavior the way they do at rock concerts now but was unusual then. It was titled, The Candle Opera, and it was poetry readings and statements from people, who were not identified. … Camelot. Hundreds of Peter Berg’s friends, compatriots, family, comrades and acquaintances came together to share the passing of a legend. The role of hard drugs in affecting the counterculture and in quote “ruining the Haight-Ashbury “ unquote has, from my point of view,  always been overstated. And the police came to this event. PB: The first time I heard the phrase, “Today is the first Day in the Rest of Your Life” it came out of the mouth of the American beat poet Gregory Corso, and it was in conversation. It’s rex sole.” It’s the first time he had ever seen the actual fish. Interviewer: You sure witnessed a lot of that personal transformation going on because that’s so much of what the scene was about. During the 50s, I remember the power of things like Elvis Presley or hearing black rock music for the first time—how strong that was as a clarion, a summons, to a different kind of identity—much more sexual, much more expressive, much more liberated. Peter Berg: How did free love manifest itself? Interview Place: by Phone We had no idea who was writing them. Interviewer: How was that perceived by the participants at the time? Over the past 15 years, PD has established a field office to carry out pertinent bioregional activities. Interviewer: When you first started hatching these ideas and the whole “life theater” concept, did you have in mind that it was going to grow so exponentially in terms of the numbers of kids who were going to be arriving in the Haight-Ashbury? And I’ve always seen it as that. And for us it was our swan song. And the actor [the MP] directed the other prisoners to drag him off. Please contact us for any reprint rights. Thank you to David Mairowitz for permission to post this interview and an English version of My 68. Brackets are editorial additions; ellipsis signify deleted material. In fact, of the Digger population, I would say at least two-thirds of them were not from California. Peter Berg: No, we did that at The Death of Hippie. I’m the Director of Planet Drum. A grand Celebration Of Life took place on Saturday, October 1, 2011, at the Josephine Randall Museum in San Francisco. Planet Drum Foundation was founded in San Francisco, CA in 1973. And that’s what eventually took place. So whether it was a man that did it or whether it was a woman that did it didn’t have a name associated with it so you really didn’t know. DM: Now I would like you, because I know what it is, but people listening won’t know. We were the people that were providing their consciousness with ideas. How do you respond to it? We passed out pieces of paper that said that intersections should be used for more than just crosswalks; they were actually wonderful places to play games where you could score points by going in different directions and accomplishing different routes in the intersection. understanding of one's bioregion, I think there were 5,000 people that showed up at our studio, which was just a small loft on Howard Street. —But then the stopping of a freeway was a major social protest and…from those two routes, being fertile for social protest and being highly racially integrated, the Haight Asbury became a desirable site for the same trend in population that created North Beach as a beatnik haven in the 50s. What … did the slogan mean to you, “Today is the first Day in the Rest of Your Life”? Whatever experience you had would be your unique experience… It makes each member of the audience a performer because they are assembling what occurs in front of them. Peter Berg: When people look back at the 60s as flower power or with someone making a “V” for victory sign and covered with buttons, that isn’t necessarily the mentality of the people at the time. I’d come from a progressive theater background. (*)Planet Drum® is a registered trademark of Planet Drum Foundation. Peter Berg: Those songs weren’t exactly representative of what was going on, but they served as anthems. Peter Berg: The Diggers had a strategy. And we were eager to allow that to occur, to allow ‘now’ to happen. Interviewer: You’ve talked a lot at times about the role of the imagination, freeing the imagination, and acting as if basically if you can imagine it into being, then it can manifest. And the more social form was influenced by the fact that by the end of 1967, a difference had started occurring. That’s the joy of a provocative title. The topical articles in these issues are of continuing relevance. Tell the police to cool it. We encouraged it. There was a naked dance performance. There’s footage of people dancing or performing their own shows in the audience at these events. Why? Grupa Planet Drum Foundation ma 26 członków. Maybe as a way to live there or maybe because our family was more liberal than anybody we were around. That was our idea. Eco-Bahia Interviewer: Do you think what most of them expected and what they found once they got there were the same? Peter Berg: In the middle 60s, the kinds of groups that were opposing American society were hopeful that they could become political mainstream. Or did it? It is open to members, researchers and others. And it was orange, so nobody could miss it. DM: Yeah and is he still in San Francisco? Participate and create something expressive and join and expand this idea. They would experience something, and they would take it with them. Lenore Kandel had a foot-reading booth which was truly for fun but that people began taking seriously. I don’t know if most people are aware, but it wasn’t boredom that killed the Haight-Ashbury. Regardless of what you want to call it. Male Voice: What record are you referring to? The San Francisco Mime Troupe had a lot to do with forming this group, and they had started a series of events and had previously used Glide Church as a site for events that were free and were inviting of neighborhood participation—open to the public entirely without any tickets. Peter Berg: Guerrins made a career out of arresting certain people. We were offering the alternative of what does it look like if you do that? Luis Valdez, who founded Teatro Campesino in Delano [California] was in it. The event actually had a longer title. But he’s somewhere out in the West, you know, and I don’t know how to get to him, but I can try and find out. local organizations and individuals to find PB: The poster is a reproduction of a photo that was done during the first notable earthquake, the ‘06 earthquake in San Francisco, of two Chinese Tong men who were the enforcers for the Chinese gangs [families] in the city. Am I part of the 1%? It became an emblematic or actually totemic photo for what was going on in the Haight-Ashbury. We believe that people who know and care about the places where they live will work to maintain and restore them. Probably 1959. Other people were in it. Peter Berg: Well, money—cash money is symbolic of materialistic society, and to do things that weren’t based on cash, weren’t based on making money in order to gain your social ends or personal ends needed models. So there was an ambiguity about how to deal with the media. Staff members present talks and conduct seminars and workshops on bioregional topics This work is motivated by our vision of a truly sustainable world in which humans are harmonious with and respectful of the natural environment. It was just meant as a provocation to the cultural consciousness especially of the psychedelic generation to try to get them to see beyond transcendental meditation into more social, political and long-term human goals. I think it was called Black Man’s Free Store. It is spoken word. What’s the problem? merchants. It has served as a model for indigenous Planet Drum Foundation works to research, promote and disseminate information about bioregionalism, a grassroots approach to ecology that emphasizes sustainability, community self-determination and regional self-reliance. Most of them activists. Interviewer: No, but it’s fine. what a Green City anywhere would be like. It gave them an experience. I walked in the stores, gave it to a storekeeper on Haight Street and they’d say, “What does this mean? The Summer Solstice of 1967 was the first time that the Summer Solstice had been celebrated by the counterculture outside in the park on a large scale, and it was a Digger event. So The Death of Hippie was to have done with that media image. Male Voice: Just one little thing. One of them was the we decided to provide free food at the Human Be-In, and somewhere along the line one of the major producers of LSD put something like 5000 tablets in our hands to distribute at the Human Be-In. They thronged to the Haight-Asbury. And I brought them into stores and gave them to store owners, and the store owners would think that we wanted to extort 1% of their money. Everything is Free, Do Your Own thing. Digger Stew was the staple food we served and it was essentially a vegetable stew made in a milk can, gallons of it at a time, heated from the outside from the bottom by a fire and we just put in whatever vegetables we’d gotten that day. provide resources and expertise, and to put people who are interested in particular In other words that individual happiness and freedom was a paramount goal of a social formulation. The Diggers could be a group of life actors who were acting out things being free, and they would do it expressively so that they were essentially performing what they were doing. It had a line in it something like, “Come to the Haight-Ashbury—tune in, turn on and drop dead” was one of the lines in it that when girls were getting raped. The following posts will celebrate the end of the year: Reduce it to three acts for a performance as a Commedia Dell’arte in the park, and we’ll believe you.”  (chuckles) So I did that. Really an amazing three months. Bring cheer. As far as whether women were treated different than they were in the counterculture in general, I wouldn’t go that far. Normalcy pushed very hard. It sort of did. We had seen it, with that exponential growth. One of the police said that.) Where do you get a place to stay? Well, Peter, it’s time. They happened in other neighborhoods. What was ruinous was to present certain individuals as being leaders or  [a] spokesperson when the atmosphere and the intent was to liberate each individual. Well, I think that’s about it Peter, for the moment. One was to close down the street and have the police arrest the people that were instigating that and the other was to have the police arrest Hell’s Angels during the celebration up and down the street. Interviewer: Some of the philosophical or political underpinnings of that around money and the Diggers’ whole relation to money and what you wanted people to understand about money—talk to us a little bit about that. 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