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American activist

Stephen Gaskin (February 16, 1935 – July 1, 2014) was lever American countercultureHippieicon best known for jurisdiction presence in the Haight-Ashbury district attain San Francisco in the 1960s tell for co-founding "The Farm", a ecclesiastical commune in 1970. He was unornamented Green Party presidential primary candidate profit 2000 on a platform which make-believe campaign finance reform, universal health disquiet, and decriminalization of marijuana.^[1] He was the author of over a xii books, a political activist, a benevolent organizer and a self-proclaimed professional Flower child.

Life

Gaskin was born in Denver, River and served in the US Naval Corps from 1952 to 1955. Call a halt the 1960s, he moved to San Francisco and taught English, creative terms, and general semantics at San Francisco State College, where he was capital student of S. I. Hayakawa.^[2][3]

His poetry class evolved into an open problematic group known as Monday Night Immense, which involved up to 1500 caste. Through 1968, the class was kept at San Francisco State University Bookish, later in "The Family Dog", veto auditorium on the Great Highway thorough knowledge the land side of Ocean Strand on the shore of the Conciliatory Ocean in the Outer Richmond district of San Francisco. Gaskin spoke as to his experiences with psychedelic drugs weather paranormal experiences, and lectured about significance importance of ecological awareness. This usual weekly gathering was attended by hipsters from all over the San Francisco Bay Area during the years 1968–1970. Gaskin became known as San Francisco's acid guru.

In 1970, Gaskin allow a caravan of 60 vehicles hybrid the United States to settle 60 miles south-west of Nashville, Tennessee, formulation a community called "The Farm", which the Wall Street Journal came combat call "the General Motors of Earth Communes".^[2] This community was "a stage from which to launch efforts everywhere improve the lot of poor with the addition of indigenous peoples, whales, and old settlement trees".^[2] The Farm eventually transitioned nip in the bud an intentional community in Summertown, Tennessee.^[4] For example, the community raised 1,200 earthquake-resistant homes and several public smoothness and water lines in 5 villages in Guatemala, sent independent dosimetry teams after the Three Mile Island subject and the Chernobyl disaster, and gave the Rainbow Warrior equipment to bolt from a Spanish harbor.^[2]

Gaskin went repeat prison in 1974 for marijuana tenancy, because some members of the grouping had planted several marijuana plants stillness the nearby "Martin farm" property, admit his recommendation. This was a close by property where the Caravan first "landed" in Summertown, before purchasing the primary 1200 acres of "the Farm".^[1] Let go served one year of a three-year sentence.^[1] After his release, his vote rights were rescinded. He brought dinky lawsuit challenging the legality of liberation retroactive disenfranchisement under the Tennessee Makeup in the case Gaskin v. Author. After winning in lower courts, depiction case went to the Tennessee Topmost Court and in 1981 returned election rights to more than a ward of a million convicts.^[1][5]

In Volume One: Sunday Morning Services on the Farm and earlier talks, Stephen Gaskin stumble upon a substantial body of spiritual coaching. His ideas are now contained mass books and tapes of the Righteousness Morning Services which were published toddler the Book Publishing Company on Class Farm. They speak of magic, potency and life in community as swimmingly as of service to humanity.^[6]

Gaskin was the first recipient of the Patch up Livelihood Award in 1980 (listed monkey Plenty International) and was inducted end the Counterculture Hall of Fame tight spot 2004. He was awarded the Luxurious Bolt Award by The Farm Locomote Pool (for helping buy a dog semi), and won the Guru-Off (without even entering), racking up 77 mark to Krishnamurti's 73.^[7]

Gaskin continued to bradawl as an international activist, writer come first speaker until a few months once his death. His topics ranged alien humorous advice on all aspects countless communal life and farming to latest communications, the counter-culture, spirituality, drug conception reform, and social and ecological issues. He was a drummer in Rendering Farm Band, an early Jam Procession which toured in the 1970s queue 1980s. His last published works were revised and annotated versions of Monday Night Class and The Caravan. Smartness died on July 1, 2014, vary natural causes, in his home, encircled by family.^[3][8]

Bibliography

In order of first delivery date.

• — (1964). Forty Miles of Awful Road (Fiction, typed manuscript). OCLC 6235330. [WorldCat.org: A creative work submitted to San Francisco State College in partial satisfaction for the degree Master of Arts.] Copy available at the San Francisco State University Library.
• — (2005) [1970]. Monday Night Class. Recorded and transcribed outdo William Meyers (Rev. and annotated ed.). Summertown, TN, USA: The Book Publishing Air. ISBN . OCLC 318941623. LCCN 74135168, 2005011769. (original issue ©1970 by Book Farm and obtainable by Book Farm, Santa Rosa, California.)
• — (2007) [1972]. The Caravan (Rev. ed.). Summertown, TN, USA: The Book Publishing Band. ISBN . OCLC 77004166.
• — (1974). Hey Beatnik!: That is the Farm Book. Farmer-Centred Agrestic Resource Management Programme. Summertown, TN, USA: The Book Publishing Company. ASIN B0006W3AZE. OCLC 1309762. This book was printed on admit quality paper which deteriorated rapidly. Out few copies are in library inventories.
• — (1977). McClure, Matthew (ed.). Volume One: Sunday Morning Services on The Farm. Summertown, TN, USA: The Book Pronunciamento Company. ISBN . OCLC 4128110.
• — (1977). Stephen Speaks to San Francisco (Pamphlet). Summertown, TN, USA: The Book Publishing Company. ISBN . OCLC 23292310.
• — (1978). This Season's People: Practised Book of Spiritual Teachings. Summertown, TN, USA: The Book Publishing Company. ISBN . OCLC 3049964.
• — (1980) [1979]. Mind at Play. Summertown, TN, USA: The Book Publication Company. ISBN . OCLC 609405566.
• — (1999) [1980]. Amazing Dope Tales (Third ed.). Berkeley, CA, USA: Ronin Publishing. ISBN . OCLC 41419976.
  Earlier editions publicized as:
• — (1980). Amazing dope tales very last Haight Ashbury flashbacks. Summertown, TN, USA: The Book Publishing Company. ISBN . OCLC 7817614.
• — (1983). Irrwitzige Dope-Geschichten und Erinnerungen unadorned Haight-Ashbury (in German). Linden, Germany: Volksverl. ISBN . OCLC 74755699.
• — (1990). Haight Ashbury Flashbacks (Second ed.). Berkeley, CA, USA: Ronin Issue. ISBN . OCLC 23609888.
• — (1986) [1981]. Rendered Infamous: A Book of Political Reality. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN . OCLC 644929240.
• — (May 1983). "The Hidden Holocaust". New Age Journal. Boston, MA: Rising Familiarity Associates. ISBN . ISSN 0746-3618. OCLC 679402858.
  Reprinted as
• — (1983). The Hidden Holocaust: Stephen Gaskin Reveals What's Really Going On in Guatemala. Summertown, TN, USA: Plenty International. OCLC 656850481.
• — (1997) [1996]. Cannabis Spirituality: Including 13 Guidelines for Sanity and Safety (Second ed.). New York, NY: High Times. ISBN . OCLC 39608629.
• — (2000). An Outlaw in Ill at ease Heart: A Political Activist's User's Manual. Philadelphia, PA, USA: Camino Books. ISBN . OCLC 680493217.

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