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and had a ten-point platform that included "total assault on the culture", demanding the end of money, free food, free medical care, free access to information technology, the end of corporate rule, freeing all prisoners, freeing conscripted soldiers, and freedom from "phony leaders". She became its
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broke out resulting in 43 deaths, and the destruction of 2000 buildings, mostly by fire. In the aftermath, Trans-Love
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song. The new group was organized as a "new total cooperative tribal living and working commune" whose stated purpose was to "promote self reliance and tribal responsibility among the artists, craftsmen and other lovers".
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beat a man, a riot started. About 150 police officers dispersed the crowd,
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Guitar Army: Rock and Revolution with the MC5 and the White Panther Party
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Motor City Underground: Leni Sinclair Photographs 1963-1978
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