Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:57:41 EST From: RozNews@aol.com To: owner-sixties-l-digest@lists.village.virginia.edu Subject: Dog Burning at Noon This event or a similar event happened in NYC. Newsreel made a film of it , that somehow i can not find. We called it Dog Burning at Noon. It was an excellent Yippie event. Im looking for a copy of the film if anyone out there knows about it. > I certainly hope no *real* dog burnings ever took place "against the >war," but I really don't know. No Dog was ever burned. It is a great action to use now , especially with all the Texas executions. This past October I wanted to have a Dog Burning as part of a human rights film festival in Burlington that had a special section on Executions. but got out voted. roz > > >This legend is based on a press conference >Abbie Hoffman once held on the steps of the >Massachusetts state house in boston. He had >a cute golden retriever, a container of "lighter >fluid" and a box of matches. He announced to >the press that in protest of the war he would >set the dog on fire. People were apparently >stunned as he took the "lighter fluid" (it had >been emptied of flammable material and replaced >with water) doused the dog as he pet it and >commented on how cute it was, and then stepped >back and lit a match. > >The reporters started screaming, "No Abbie, don't >do it! Don't!" > >Then he confessed it was water in the "lighter >fluid" container, doused the match with it, and >said, "see, you care more about the life of that >dog than about the children in Vietnam." >
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