you had abby hoffman, jerry rubin there was a circus, commotion. people are speaking in cafes now, sipping tea, and it is pretty calm, downtown chicago. but i do think in chicago there is security, security, because former president trump was shot in pennsylvania. there is that inexplicable framing. the chicago police department has partnered with illinois, the state, the governor. they have kind of a cordoned off situation like we have not seen at a convention before. i think it was intense in milwaukee. it seemed to >> later, democratic women owners wildiscuss about the importance of eleing women. the event is happening on the silence of the democratic naonal convention in chicago. watch live at 4:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, c-span now, or online at c-span.org. >> discover the heartbeat of democracy with c-span voices 2024, as we engage voters at the democratic national convention we ask what issue is most important to you and why? >> [indiscernible] >> i am a delegate from nebraska. the top issues for me are public schools and public education an

you had abby hoffman, jerry rubin there was a circus, commotion.eople are speaking in cafes now, sipping tea, and it is pretty calm, downtown chicago. but i do think in chicago there is security, security, because former president trump was shot in pennsylvania. there is that inexplicable framing. the chicago police department has partnered with illinois, the state, the governor. they have kind of a cordoned off situation like we have not seen at a convention before. i think it was intense in milwaukee. it seemed to take on a new dimension in a city the size of chicago. >> thank you for your time. >> the house will be in order. >> c-span celebrates 40 years of covering congress like no other. since 1979, we have been your primary source for capitol hill, providing balanced, unfiltered coverage of government, taking you to where policy is debated and decided, through support of america's cable companies. c-span -- 45 years and counting, powered by cable. >> discover the heartbeat of democracy with c-span voices 2024. we engaged voters at this year's

what place did abbie hoffman play in the 1960's? i remember he wrote that book, "don't steal this book." anyway. guest: yeah. among the protest leaders, you would put abbie hoffman up there, jerry rubin, a lot of these names became household names. i think jerry rubin took a little bit of the spotlight. he wrote multiple books. abbie hoffman, whether it was the yippies, the youth international protest movement. i got into protesters of the book, but there are better people who have written about this before me, like david farber, who have really dedicated their careers to writing about protest leaders and the protest movement. so that is an area i did not get into as much, because i did not think i had a lot of new things to add over those who came before me. but you are exactly right, in terms of a lot of them did write accounts of being here in chicago and what was going on that year, and it is very insightful to go back. and for those of us who did not listen that period, to see what it was like. host: gary is in new jersey on ou

what place did abbie hoffman play in the 1960's? remember he wrote that book, "don't steal this book." anyway. guest: yeah. among the protest leaders, you would put abbie hoffman up there, jerry rubin, a lot of these names became household names. i think jerry rubin took a little bit of the spotlight. he wrote multiple books. abbie hoffman, whether it was the yippies, the youth international protest movement. i got into protesters of the book, but there are better people who have written about this before me, like david farber, who have really dedicated their careers to writing about protest leaders and the protest movement. so that is an area i did not get into as much, because i did not think i had a lot of new things to add over those who came before me. but you are exactly right, in terms of a lot of them did write accounts of being here in chicago and what was going on that year, and it is very insightful to go back. and for those of us who did not listen that period, to see what it was like. host: gary is in new jersey on our

what place did abbie hoffman play in the 1960's?te that book, "don't steal this book." anyway. guest: yeah. among the protest leaders, you would put abbie hoffman up there, jerry rubin, a lot of these names became household names. i think jerry rubin took a little bit of the spotlight. he wrote multiple books. abbie hoffman, whether it was the yippies, the youth international protest movement. i got into protesters of the book, but there are better people who have written about this before me, like david farber, who have really dedicated their careers to writing about protest leaders and the protest movement. so that is an area i did not get into as much, because i did not think i had a lot of new things to add over those who came before me. but you are exactly right, in terms of a lot of them did write accounts of being here in chicago and what was going on that year, and it is very insightful to go back. and for those of us who did not listen that period, to see what it was like. host: gary is in new jersey on our line for republi

what place did abbie hoffman play in the 1960's?rote that book, "don't steal this book." anyway. guest: yeah. among the protest leaders, you would put abbie hoffman up there, jerry rubin, a lot of these names became household names. i think jerry rubin took a little bit of the spotlight. he wrote multiple books. abbie hoffman, whether it was the yippies, the youth international protest movement. i got into protesters of the book, but there are better people who have written about this before me, like david farber, who have really dedicated their careers to writing about protest leaders and the protest movement. so that is an area i did not get into as much, because i did not think i had a lot of new things to add over those who came before me. but you are exactly right, in terms of a lot of them did write accounts of being here in chicago and what was going on that year, and it is very insightful to go back. and for those of us who did not listen that period, to see what it was like. host: gary is in new jersey on our line for repub

it was the early 1960s style of intentional disinformation that was being used to promote that abbie hoffman radical psychology but he wrote this book cosmic trigger what is arguing is not that everything is true that we can all hold multiple perspectives at different times cannot take any one of them very seriously. you can look at a situation as an atheist scientists and see it from that perspective then you can look at it as a you could look at it as a new age fantasy person. you can look at it as a psychedelic person and all these different ways to look at things. it would have helped people today in the whole conspiracy theory qanon and people looking for what really happened here. rather than needing to grab onto one of them to know this happened and is the five jeep tower connected to the covid vaccine? wait a minute to be able to tolerate not knowing it to be able to tolerate that there's all these different perspectives really does she'll view from the same kindst of people that use spectacle to gain power, to use confusion and conspiracy and unknowns as ways of gaining power as u w

you had abby hoffman, jerry rubin there was a circus, commotion.e speaking in cafes now, sipping tea, and it is pretty calm, downtown chicago. but i do think in chicago there is security, security, because former president trump was shot in pennsylvania. there is that inexplicable framing. the chicago police department has partnered with illinois, the state, the governor. they have kind of a cordoned off situation like we have not seen at a convention before. i think it was intense in milwaukee. it seemed to >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we're funded by these tel

you had that yet these abby hoffman, terry rubin, black panther bobby seale. so there was a commotion in the streets of chicago. that doesn't exist. people are sitting in cafÉs right now sipping tea and is pretty calm in the main downtown of chicago. but i do think security security security because president trump, former president trump was shot in butler, pennsylvania, and there's the extensible that were aware of security tort speech. chicago police department has partnered with illinois, the state, with the governor and homeland security. so i have a kind of cordoned off situation like i have seen at a convention before. i think it was intense in the walkie but it seems to take on a new dimension in the city the size of chicago. >> thank you very much for your time. >> c-span3 schoenfeld of view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more including buckeye broadband. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> buckeye broadband support c-span as a public service along with these other television providers giving you a front row seat to democra >> , it up later t