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San Francisco Diggers, Communication Company, Free City Collective,
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Earth/Life Defense Commune, &c.
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Cat. No.: CC-033 Full record BibCit: By Anderson, Chester. 5/6/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (ups). Collection: SOLA-oDW | SS-L. Abstract: "Last January I asked the I Ching to comment on the subject: 'This summer & the revolution.' Five minutes ago, without knowing what I'd done .. Claude did exactly the same thing. .. Both times .. the Oracle gave the same reading."
Notes on the I Ching hexagrams received - #64 (Before Completion) leading to #1 (The Creative). "This is the reading that, last January, underlay the forming of the communication company.. Be advised."
Note: "printed in awe by the communication (ups) be ye therefore joyful be advised" Hexagram diagrams are typewritten.
Cat. No.: CC-034 Full record BibCit: 5/8/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (u.p.s.). Collection: SOLA-xSS | SS-oL. Abstract: Science-fiction like teletype instructions: "A.) All centers. Initiate condition aleph. Foreplay operations in effect, blue zones, cycling. Projective techniques authorized, discouraged. Street consolidation in progress. .."
"retyped and printed 5/8/67 by the communication company (u.p.s.) we're out of vynltronic stencils. be advised. having to retype all this nonsense is a drag."
Cat. No.: CC-048 Full record BibCit: By Cummings, E. E.. 5/8/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (u.p.s.). Collection: SOLA-oDW | SS-xB. Abstract: Two poems by E. E. Cummings, and a poem about the upcoming summer solstice celebration: ".. merging of the tribes hear the solstice moving through the year miracles are coming with the moon be aware".
Note: "set forth 5/8/67 by the communication company (u.p.s.) be advised"
Cat. No.: CC-035 Full record BibCit: By Bryant, Melvin D.. 5/9/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: CC (UPS). Collation: 1/c black ink on green paper. Collection: SOLA-oDW | SS-oL. Abstract: Poem. "Through my fingers run sand belonging to, the land -- through which I'm a marching. .. Before us our friends will tell of cities that have fell, without the use of gun or harming anyone, for love is our lord and master - we are growing strong.."
"A song by one of the more than 10,000 brothers now in U.S. prisons because of the drug laws---"
Note: Imprint, note on origin - typewritten. Text - handlettered. Title in block letters.
Cat. No.: CC-036a Full record BibCit: 5/9/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (ups). Collection: SOLA-o($) | SOLA-xSS | SS-oL. Abstract: Report of a meeting between various hippie leaders and the Hopis to discuss a Be-In at the Grand Canyon. Eloquent statement of opposition to the idea proposed by Dick Alpert, et al. Emmett Grogan the presumed author of this report.
"Grogan talked from his youth and sought awareness -- He questioned the motives for a Be-In at Hopi Land. No, we have a community. We have many communities. ..-- Now we must follow the organic steps toward our own development as a tribe."
Note: Bottom of r.s. has feathered 'running man' symbol (see _Ringolevio_, p. 380). Anon: by Emmett Grogan.
Cat. No.: CC-037 Full record BibCit: 5/9/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: ComCo (ups). Collection: SOLA-oDW | SS-oL. Abstract: "I'LL RECAPITULATE. BUT FIRST -- BRO. AGAINST BRO., ALMOST, IN USA. (BLOODLESS FOR MOST PART) CIVIL WAR AS RITE RITE CLEANS UP FOR YEAR OR MORE -- I.E. R. REAGAN AS GOVERNOR HAS ALREADY APPOINTED BIG BUSINESS/MAN AS LABOR COMMISIONER.."
"..GET THE IDEA? --THEN, LATE '68 -- NOT SLOW, BUT FAST ADJUSTMENT AS NEW AWAKENING SPREADS THROUGHOUT OUR CULTURE -- MEANTIME, WATCHOUT, FISHES COMING TO THE SURFACE ARE TO BE CAUGHT.."
Note: Grogan in _Ringolevio_ (p. 311) says this was a letter from Cassady (in Mexico) to Ginsberg, reprinted by ComCo.
Cat. No.: CC-038a Full record BibCit: 5/10/1967. Leaflet. Letter size. 2 sht./2 pp.. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (ups). Collection: SOLA-xSS | SS-oT. Abstract: Editorial on the merchants, the Thelins, Council for a Summer of Love, response to "Uncle Tim'$ Children", the diggers, money and greed. Subtitle: "Public Acts Are Public Knowledge | Love Is What You Do Not what you say."
"Money is energy. Energy must flow. If you hold on to it you get burned. .. Moneylust is sickness. It kills perception. Everyone is entitled to make a living, a good living, but everything more than a living is dying."
Cat. No.: CC-226 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 5/11/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: COM CO, UPS, HPS. Collection: SOLA-x(CSL).
Cat. No.: CC-155 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 5/13/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Printed in landscape mode. 2/C (Bl Be on Be Pa). Title in psychedelic lettering. Graphic of face collage depicting various objects and symbols.. Collection: SS-o(TR) | SOLA-o(?). Abstract: Announces an Amerindian happening "Blanket Mask Feather" at John Adams School, sponsored by Haight-Ashbury Happening House.
Cat. No.: CC-263 Full record BibCit: 5/13/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: ComCo. Collection: SOLA-o($). Abstract: Announces a free event at Alamo Park with "R&B - Rock - Blues | Soul" Saturday, May 13. "Bring yourself to it / Let's do it forever".
Cat. No.: CC-230 Full record BibCit: By Doc Stanley. 5/14/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: com co (u.p.s.) do love. Collation: Gr. ink.. Collection: SOLA-x(CSL).
Note: Verso has page number 3, which indicates this is not complete.
Cat. No.: CC-235 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 5/15/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: COM CO. Collection: SOLA-x(CSL).
Cat. No.: CC-002 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 5/17/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: d./commucomp(UPS). Collation: 1/cGR. Collection: SOLA-o(SS-x)|SS-o(L). Abstract: Photocopy reprint of Charles McCabe's May 17,1967 SF Chron column ("Love and The Buck") decrying the 'merchants of love'. Also a digger commentary on the Love Circus. "..Revolution for $3.50 is an impossibility. Revolution is free because it's yours."
Cat. No.: CC-095a Full record BibCit: By Hayward, Claude. 5/23/1967. Manuscript. Lg. Collation: Tpw, xerox has 3 sheets, 3pp (incomplete). Collection: SS-x(m) | SOLA-x(ss). Abstract: Claude Hayward, one of the co-founders of the Communication Company, writing to Warren Hinckle of Ramparts, offers in this memorandum of May 23, 1967 a hard-eyed assessment of conditions in the Haight as the Summer of Love approached. The memo gives a sharp, unsentimental picture of a scene already straining under the weight of its own publicity. Hayward surveys the working free institutions then in place—Peter Berg’s Free Store at 901 Cole, Roy Ballard’s Black Man’s Free Store, the faltering Free Food operation, free legal and medical aid, and various warehouse and community-center proposals—but his tone is wary rather than celebratory. Again and again, he contrasts the practical labor of feeding, clothing, housing, and treating people with the meetings, press conferences, and vague uplift of what he dismissively as the middle-class “Summer of Love” crowd. The memo is valuable for showing the counterculture not as a unified movement but as a patchwork of projects, factions, and uneasy alliances, some rooted in direct mutual aid, others in publicity and good intentions.
What most distinguishes the piece, however, is its sense of gathering crisis. Hayward insists that the real issue is not hippie theater or even logistical breakdown, but the prospect of racial violence, Black rebellion, and state repression converging in San Francisco and beyond. He describes a widening gulf between white hippies and Black communities, noting both small moments of contact and the deeper forces of resentment, fear, and political incomprehension. The memo predicts that hippies may soon find themselves caught between Black revolt and official repression, and links that prospect to Vietnam, domestic surveillance, and even the specter of internment under federal law. In that light, the free stores, free food projects, and rural farms appear not simply as countercultural experiments but as fragile, improvised preparations for social breakdown. The closing reference to Emmett Grogan’s advice to leave the city and prepare for life on the land gives the document the character of an early warning from within the underground itself, turning attention away from the spectacle of Haight-Ashbury and toward survival, decentralization, and the recognition that something much darker than a “summer of love” was already on the horizon.
Note: Claude and Chester had a complicated relationship with Warren Hinckle, the editor of Ramparts. This memo was written shortly after the Ramparts issue that exposed Emmett Grogan and the Diggers to the kind of publicity that Claude refers to here as "your foul publicity games." See Ringolevio for Grogan's view of Hinckle.
Cat. No.: CC-067a Full record BibCit: 5/24/1967. Broadsheet. Legal size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-o(T) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: In the main, a reprint of a letter from Sybil Leek
Cat. No.: CC-222 Full record BibCit: By Grogan, Emmet (anon). 5/29/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: comco(ups). Collation: Signature is hand-drawn graphic feathered swastika. Collection: SOLA-o(KP).
Cat. No.: CC-005a Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 5/31/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SOLA-oPR|SS-oL. Abstract: Title is all this side. Reverse side: "To The people of the Oracle:".
Cat. No.: CC-005b Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 5/31/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: P.B/Comm/Comp. Collection: SOLA-oPR|SS-oL. Abstract: A letter from Tammy in Monterey who asks, "Can any information be obtained about the Diggers (history or anything)? other than thru word of mouth .." She knows local Diggers-type group who will put people up during upcoming Monterey music festival.
Note: R.s.: "There is only 1 digger." Dating based on comment about Peter Orlovsky which appeared in the Oracle #6 (February 1966).
Cat. No.: CC-202 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 5/31/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Lettering in psychedelic style. 1/c.. Collection: SOLA-o(DW). Abstract: Soliciting donations of beads to give away on their upcoming tour. "Send before May 31." "Spread hippie culture. Show a kindness. Do it now before May 31st because that's when they split."
Cat. No.: CC-039a Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 6/3/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: CC. Collection: SOLA-xSS | SS-oT. Abstract: Cable heading (at top of page): "From "Time Magazine Hq, New York .. Jun 3,67 .. to San Francisco Bureau". Instructions on gathering material for "an in-depth analysis of this controversial, cloud-cuckooland miniculture."
"Will need substantial paragraph or two in cover tracing the history of the phenomenon.. Will want to talk about the hippie businessman, the people who feed off the hippies.. How much do they make -- any fortunes yet?"
Note: Certain lines underlined, sections outlined, by ComCo.
Cat. No.: CC-068A Full record BibCit: By Tyler, Steve. 6/7/1967. Broadside. Legal size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-o(T) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: A poem by Steve Tyler about a fantasy interracial riot that burns down Haight Street.
Cat. No.: CC-068B Full record BibCit: By Snyder, Gary. 6/7/1967. Broadside. Legal size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-o(T) | SOLA-x(SS)SOLA-o(PW,variant, letter size, 2 cop);o-SOLA(AA, legal size). Abstract: An incantation, war cry. Mentions the Ghost Dance. Signed "[Pisces-like symbol] SNYDER".
Cat. No.: CC-044 Full record BibCit: 6/19/1967. Broadside. Letter size. New York: Communications co.. Imprint: Comm's co./ N.Y.. Collection: SOLA-xxSS | SS-xB. Abstract: Reprint with minor variations of CC-043. Signed "(Love) The Diggers". [Internal and historical evidence suggests this is a reprint.]
Cat. No.: CC-007 Full record BibCit: N.D., ca. 6/21/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: CC. Collation: 1/c, black ink on GrPa. Collection: SOLA-xSS/SS-oL. Abstract: Title continues: ".. JUNE 21 POTLATCH|.| WHEN SAN FRANCISCO| WILL OPEN ITS| GOLDEN GATE" Ilustration at bottom depicts human figure carrying a load of possessions on the head. In bold letters: "POTLATCH"
