6/1/2023 0 Comments Two Stories by Gantea![]() ![]() Their most famous activities revolved around distributing free food ("Free because it's yours!") every day in the park, and distributing "surplus energy" at a series of Free Stores (where everything was free for the taking.) The Diggers combined street theater, direct action, and art happenings in their social agenda of creating a Free City. The San Francisco Diggers were a legendary group that evolved out of two radical traditions that thrived in the Bay Area in the mid-1960s: the bohemian/underground art/theater scene, and the New Left/civil rights/peace movement. ![]() ![]() The Diggers took their name from the English Diggers (1649-1650), a radical movement opposed to feudalism, the Church of England and the British Crown. Emmett Grogan was a founder of the Diggers in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, California. ![]()
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