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Hippie Society: The Youth Rebellion
Flowers and free love. Antiwar marches and acid tests. In the mid to late 1960s, youth across North America and Europe began to "turn on, tune in and drop out." Fed up with the establishment — parents, schools, police — they went looking for a new way of life. To Toronto's Yorkville and Vancouver's Kitsilano district they came, preaching peace, love and non-conformity.		Educational activities about Hippie Society: The Youth Rebellion

	Beatniks: The hippie forefathers		Haight-Ashbury: The birth of hip		Yorkville: Hippie haven
	A peek at Canada's first "Happening," a Dada-inspired night of beatnik frivolity at Toronto's Bohemian Embassy club. (TV; runs 3:49)		Canadian filmmaker Don Shebib journeys to the epicentre of the hippie world, the corner of Haight and Ashbury Streets in San Francisco. (TV; runs 7:02)		Toronto's Yorkville. It's hippie central, full of young kids, drugs, sex and Vagabonds. (TV; runs 14:01)

	Hippie life: It ain't easy		Welcome to the future: Less work, more play		A sunshine melody: Joni Mitchell
	A hippie in Kitsilano talks about getting by, meditating, doing drugs and dropping out. (TV; runs 6:41)		The head of a California commune argues that hippies represent the lifestyle of the future. (TV; runs 5:59)		A folksinger (and soon-to-be hippie icon) named Joni Mitchell sings and explains why most of her songs are about happiness. (TV; runs 8:48)

	Festivals and happenings: Vancouver's Human Be-in		Hippie runaways in Vancouver: Their stories		City politicians averse to hippies
	Hippies get all decked out and pumped up for the party in Vancouver's Stanley Park. A whole lot of flowers, music, drumming, dancing and love, love, love. (TV; runs 14:45)		On-the-street interviews with hippie runaways and the people trying to help them. (Radio; runs 15:11)		Vancouver's mayor defends the recent arrest of several youths caught loitering, calling the hippies "parasites" and "scum." (TV; runs 6:48)

	Yorkville: From hippies to highrises		Rochdale College: Organized anarchy		Out of the city and into the commune
	Are the hippies losing Yorkville to the boutiques and condominiums? (TV; runs 2:35)		The view from inside Canada's first free university and largest co-operative living experiment. Freedom — some might say anarchy — prevails. (Radio; runs 16:18)		Three hippies describe why they've started new lives on communal farms in rural southern Ontario. (Radio; runs 4:42)

	Where have all the hippies gone?
	Some aged hippies, slightly older and wiser, talk about the failure of their commune. (TV; runs 2:24)

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