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  • Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and others (including Paul Krassner, who reputedly coined the term Yippie at a 1967 New Year's Eve party) founded the Youth International Party.

    Jan Herman: Under and Over 2008

  • Even the name Yippie! — as in both the cheer and the counterculture label hippie — showed a kind of goofy brilliance much appreciated by young militants and very little appreciated by anyone else.

    1968 the Year that Rocked the World Kurlansky, Mark 2004

  • We’re a youth movement who doesn’t believe in hierarchy: every Yippie is her or his own leader.

    What Were Those 1960s Terrorists Thinking, Anyway? 2008

  • We’re a youth movement who doesn’t believe in hierarchy: every Yippie is her or his own leader.

    December « 2008 « Bill Ayers 2008

  • Judy Collins: I was at the Americana Hotel in New York City attending a press conference to announce the formation of what we have now come to know as the Yippie movement;

    Sam Leff: That's The Way It Wasn't 2009

  • Abbie Hoffman, the political activist and co-founder of the Youth International "Yippie"

    Thestar.com - Home Page Tracey Tyler 2011

  • Who said that the 'Yippie' leader and anti-Vietnam war activist, Abbie Hoffman, born on 30 November 1936, was 'something akin to an American prophet'?

    Red Pepper 2009

  • "Yippie" is what Bruce Willis says before "Kiya mother fucker" in the Die Hard flicks.

    "It's a negative intensity" between John McCain and Sarah Palin. Ann Althouse 2008

  • As this documentary by Ken Bowser shows, Ochs didn't just sing about the issues that concerned him - he organized and acted, working as part of the organizing group behind the Yippie protests in Chicago at the 1968 Democratic National Convention and performing in Lincoln Park, then later organizing a major concert after the CIA-enabled coup that toppled Salvador Allende in Chile.

    Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune Marshall Fine 2011

  • Oh ..... here's one now from HipGranny who writes: Yippie!!!!

    Obama praises agreement to cut drug costs for senior citizens 2009

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