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{{Short description|1972 American breakaway Yippie faction}}{{other uses|Zip (disambiguation)|Zippy (disambiguation)}}Zippie was briefly the name of the breakaway Yippie faction that demonstrated at the 1972 Republican and Democratic Conventions in Miami Beach, Florida.Marijuana Smoke-in Held Outside Convention Hall. July 10, 1972. Sarasota Herald-Tribune.WEB,weblink Yippies vs. Zippies: New Rubin book reveals '70s counterculture feud, Reinholz, Mary, The Villager (Manhattan), The Villager, 25 February 2018, The origin of the word is an evolution of the term Yippie, which was coined by the Youth International Party in the 1960s.After these events, "the Zippies evolved back into Yippies",Abbie Hoffman, Soon to be a Major Motion Picture, page 278. Perigee Books, 1980.WEB,weblink Hippies, Yippies, Zippies and Beatnicks – A Conversation with Dana Beal, Arnett, Andrew, TheStonedSociety.com, The Stoned Society, 21 July 2015, 21 December 2018,weblink dead, but the word Zippie remained, used by record labels, rock bands, and assorted others.Zippie on BandcampIn subsequent years, zippie has arisen in reference to 1990s technopeople, in contradiction to yuppies. In the 1990s, Fraser Clark and others created a unique subculture that combined the "1990s techno hemisphere with the 1960s earth person".{{citation needed|date=October 2012}} Zippies were thus advocates of PLUR (Peace Love Unity Respect), which originated on the alt.raves and alt.culture.zippies usenet groups.

1972

Yippie (YIP) was an acronym for "Youth International Party"; similarly, Zippie (ZIP) was an acronym for "Zeitgeist International Party"—a term first coined by Tom Forcade.BOOK, Blacklisted News: Secret Histories from Chicago, '68, to 1984, New Yippie Book Collective, 9780912873008, Bleecker Publishing, 1983, (Chapter titled "Zeitgeist: The Ballad of Tom Forcade" by Steve Conliff)BOOK, Resistance: A Radical Political and Social History of the Lower East Side, Clayton Patterson, 9781583227459, Seven Stories Press, 2007, 514–517, This was the name given to the radical breakaway Yippie faction that demonstrated at the 1972 Republican and Democratic Conventions in Miami Beach.WEB,weblink We are Not McGovernable!: What Cronkite Didn't Tell You about the '72 Democratic Convention, Steve Conliff, Steve Conliff, Youth International Party, 1972, MAGAZINE,weblink INTERVIEW : Dana Beal, Oliver, David, High Times, June 1977, Zippies became prominent internationally during the American 1972 Democratic National Convention and 1972 Republican National Convention, held in Miami Beach, Florida, USA, when the word was silk-screened on t-shirts and worn by counter-culture activists and groups working to end US involvement in the Vietnam War.Elliott, John, "Trial By Fire", article in Cyrano's Journal Magazine, p. 7 photo "https://acrobat.com/app.html#d=gl72kKbtSzCFW2CNOG-L3w"

1994

In May 1994 Wired magazine published an article titled "Here Come the Zippies!".Marshall, Jules, "Zippies!", Wired Magazine, issue 2.05, May 1994 The cover of the magazine featured a kaleidoscopic image of a smiling young man with wild hair, a funny hat, and mechanical eyeglasses. Written by Jules Marshall, the article announced an organized cultural response to Thatcherism in the British Isles.There's a new and rapidly spreading cultural virus ripping through the British Isles. The symptoms of those infected include attacks of optimism, strong feelings of community, and lowered stress levels. Will their gathering in August at the Grand Canyon be the Woodstock of the '90s?The article describes zippies, according to 50-year-old Fraser Clark, as "Zen-Inspired Pronoia Professional", or "hippies with zip."WEB, Fraser Clark – Psychedelic Salon Podcasts,weblink 2023-06-06, psychedelicsalon.com, The UK media tried to pin various labels on the Y Generation such as "cyber-crusties", "techno-hippies", and "post-ravers." Fraser Clark espoused a philosophy known as pronoia and embarked on an expedition to the United States. This tour was dubbed the Zippy Pronoia Tour to US. WEB, Huffstutter, P. J., 1994-08-07, We're Not in Woodstock Anymore : Crank up the music. Spread peace and love. But this isn't the '60s. So plug into the Internet and meet the zippies, a cyber-rave, altered-states kind of movement.,weblink 2023-06-06, Los Angeles Times, en-US, Other uses of the term are "Zen Inspired Peace Professional."These zippies were a New Age kind of hippie who embraced Chaos Theory, Blakean revolt, modern mysteries such as New Age Paganism, trance music, rave culture, smart drinks, free software, technology and entrepreneurism in an effort to bring about a better world.A group called "The Zippies" were behind one of the first acts of electronic civil disobedience with a collective online action against the 1994 Criminal Justice Bill.

2004

In his book The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman describe zippies as a "huge cohort of Indian youth who are first to come of the age since India shifted away from socialism and dived headfirst into global trade and information revolution by turning itself into world's service center".BOOK, Friedman, Thomas, The World Is Flat, 2006, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 978-0374292881, 216, registration,weblink The original source of the 2004 term "Zippies" comes from an Indian English-language weekly magazine called Outlook in an article called Age Of The Zippie.MAGAZINE, SINHA, SUVEEN, Age Of The Zippie,weblink Outlook India, 2012-06-19,

See also

• Hippie
• Yippie
• Counterculture
• Electrohippies
• Rave
• Subculture
• Free Culture

References

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External links

• Friedman, Thomas, "Meet the Zippies", New York Times (Op-Ed), February 22, 2004
• Yippies vs. Zippies: New Rubin book reveals ’70s counterculture feud (The Villager article by Mary Reinholz, 25 February 2018)