Activists Who Committed Suicide

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: Abbie Hoffman, Yukio Mishima, Irv Rubin, Alexander Berkman, Kostas Georgakis, Mohamed Bouazizi, Malachi Ritscher, Shawn Lonsdale, Garrett Hardin, Hartmut Gr ndler, Andrew Koenig, Jan Palach, Ben Klassen, Carl Einstein, Freda du Faur, Ida Craddock, Jean Tatlock, Andrew Martinez, Nuamthong Phaiwan, Tooker Gomberg, Zo d'Axa, Dan Burros, Mitch Snyder, Mikhail Tomsky, Lee Kyung Hae, Kathy Change, Marshall Ledbetter, Meir Feinstein, Thomas Guillaume St. Barbe Baker, Oleksa Hirnyk, May Ayim, Chris Lightfoot, Sunil Verma, William C. Rodgers, Marshall Bloom, Eug ne Lanti, Eugen Schauman, Ruthe Lewin Winegarten, Louis Fles, Stefan Lux, Tristan Egolf, Sarah Goddard Power, Ram n Sampedro, Andr Rebou as, Rajiv Goswami, Ev en Plocek, Moshe Barazani, Liviu Cornel Babe?, Masakatsu Morita, Sue Rodriguez, Maxim Bazylev, Clark Polak, Reinhold Elstner, Kristin Brooks Rossell. Excerpt: Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman (November 30, 1936 - April 12, 1989) was a political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies"). Hoffman was arrested and tried for conspiracy and inciting to riot as a result of his role in protests that led to violent confrontations with police during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, along with Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner and Bobby Seale. The group was known collectively as the "Chicago Eight"; when Seale's prosecution was separated from the others, they became known as the Chicago Seven. While the defendants were initially convicted of intent to incite a riot, the verdicts were overturned on appeal. Hoffman came to prominence in the 1960s, and continued practicing his activism in the 1970s, and has remained a symbol of the youth rebellion of that era. Hoffman was born November 30, 1936 in Worcester, Massachusetts to John Hoffman ...