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TitleThe earth will supply sufficient resources ...
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PublisherFree City Collective
PlaceSan Francisco
Year
Date 12/1/1968
Date 2
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MediumBroadside
DimensionLegal
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CatalogFC-NEWS-004
CollectionSOLA-o
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FC-NEWS-004
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Dating: February 1, 1968. The assault on the US Embassy in Saigon during the Tet Offensive began January 31 with 19 Vietcong successfully invading the compound. The moon in Pisces confirms the dating.
Abstract
This Free News sheet stages a confrontation between war, authority, and the counter-image of a liberated city. Across a photograph of helmeted police advancing in formation, the words FREE CITY descend vertically while FREE NEWS cuts across the image, turning the page itself into a graphic act of resistance. Around that central collision, the sheet juxtaposes fragments of the Tet Offensive, Vietnam, Reagan, Alioto, Lenore Kandel, Mardi Gras in the Fillmore, housing needs, free trash removal, and street rumor, collapsing official news and local countercultural life into a single field. The result is not a conventional newspaper page but a visual manifesto: the city is figured as a contested zone in which police power, war, festival, need, and free sociality all meet. The phrase “Time is You” gives the sheet its deeper claim, shifting history from the abstractions of the state to the lived agency of the people in the street.
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The earth will supply sufficient resources to feed, clothe, and house its entire population, if we only put our minds to that problem —Buckminster Fuller

The moon, in its first quarter, is in Pisces and the Viet Cong, military arm of the South Vietnamese National Liberation Front continued today what has become the major offensive of the war. Fourty (sic) cities and towns were under attack and all of Free Vietnam was placed under Marshall Law and 24 hour curfew. Nineteen of the Cong made it into the impregnable American embassy again, but all were killed during a counterattack on their embassy by American paratroopers who landed on the roof in helicopters.

COCKIE DOODLE FREE TRASH REMOVAL FOR OUR DAILY PLANET. Call 752-9919

White House sources stated that they knew in advance of the Viet Cong onslaught but that there was "no effective defense against suicide raids."

THE SEVENTH FLEET STILL COPS IN THE HAIGHT-ASHBURY

Democrats accused Reagan of illegality in a judicial appointment. Reagan answered that the Judge was doing it FREE.

LENORE KANDEL IS STILL LOOKING FOR SERIOUS MIDDLE-EASTERN MUSICIANS TO ACCOMPANY HER BELLY DANCERS. Call YU 6-3965

Mayor Alioto plans a bigger and better San Francisco Film Festival this year.

MARDI-GRAS IN THE FILLMORE DANCING IN THE STREETS AND PEOPLE AND FOOD FEB. 9, 10, 11

David Harris, former Stanford Student Body President, was arrested today by Federal Marshalls for refusing the draft.

Police Chief Blackmoor of San Jose said today that police should act quickly and on their own to quell campus [riots].

PAULA AND HER LARGE FAMILY ARE STILL LOOKING FOR A BIG ENOUGH HOUSE

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