Digger Do
A Record of What the Diggers Did
This page is an index to sections and pieces found throughout the Digger web. The
Digger Movement was multifarious. It comprised numerous groups that
resonated with the idea of Free in all its aspects. The San Francisco
Diggers got the ball rolling but it snowballed from there. Free Food,
Free Stores, Free Bakeries were the most recognizable forms. The Diggers
themselves morphed into Free City which then inspired the Sutter Street
Commune to set up the Free Print Shop and Kaliflower, the intercommunal
newspaper around which coalesced a network of communes including the
Angels of Light, Hunga Dunga, the Free Medical Opera, Konnyaku, and
dozens of others, all of whom were involved in creating a culture of
Free. Some of the original Diggers expanded the idea of Free to include
a vision of an ecological balance that they called bioregionalism.
Groups across the counterculture picked up the Digger idea and traces
are found even decades later such as the encampment at Occupy Wall
Street. Even today, Digger Do is celebrated in ongoing re-creations.
Outline of the Digger Movement:
- Website
General
- Roots of the Digger Movement
- San Francisco Diggers (1966)
- Free City Collective (1968)
- Kaliflower Network (1969)
- Outward to the Planet (1970)
- Current Day
- Wigan Festival, Our Commons are free, Bolton Diggers, Occupy
Wall Street, Streetopia
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