the illusion of social "change"

way back from the riots around the democratic convention of 1968, the official flag of the counterculture movement below.  the connections by now should be so obvious as to not require discussion:

Yippie flag, Gift of Seed Publishing, 1968.978

This flag came to the Chicago History Museum in 1968. It was donated by the leaders of the local underground newspaper, the Chicago Seed. Earlier that summer, during the DNC, the Seed and other newspapers and media outlets covered a Yippie-staged event called the Festival of Life in Lincoln Park, which was organized in opposition to what Hoffman called the “convention of death” on the other side of town. The Yippies invited thousands of young people from across the country to the festival. Participants planned to camp overnight despite Mayor Richard J. Daley’s mandate to close the park at 11:00 p.m. each night. The flag was likely a witness to both the festival and the violence that followed.

http://blog.chicagohistory.org/index.php/2011/06/yippies-in-lincoln-park-1968/