Orlando doctor fined $10,000 in disciplinary action Jun 5, 2007
The board also took action on a settlement agreement for Dr. Jerry Rubin, an Orlando plastic surgeon. He had agreed to accept a fine of $7,000 and to give a lecture to medical colleagues on "wrong-site surgeries" for performing surgery on the wrong part of a patient's index finger in 2005. (Orlando Sentinel -- Business)
The happiest place on Earth? May 23, 2007
1970--300 hippies, lead by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin take over the park. Eighteen are arrested. (Newsday -- New York City)
SUMMER OF LOVE: 40 YEARS LATERThe party gets out of hand May 23, 2007
" It was not only a time of protest against a war on the other side of the world, it was also a time of protest, for some, at home. After the 1965 Watts riot in Los Angeles, the nation's ghettos awakened to a new, more militant brand of black leadership. Across the bay in Oakland, young blacks armed themselves for self-protection and some recognized, in the hippies, common social goals. David Hilliard: It was this counterculture movement. You're talking Timothy Leary, Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman,... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Ida Russakoff Hoos, 94; founded immigrant workers service May 11, 2007
"Dr. Hoos left quite a legacy," said Jerry Rubin, the JVS president, noting that the agency, which had initially worked with immigrants from Europe, now provides educational training to immigrants from all over the world and serves about 14,000 clients a year. Dr. Hoos's work with JVS was the beginning of her lifelong mission to make people matter in the onward march of technology and automation that can render workers obsolete. (Boston Globe)
R. EMMETT TYRRELL JR.: Retro wrath on the hustings Apr 6, 2007
Ah, yes, the Yippies' Jerry Rubin is no longer with them. He perished after jaywalking across Wilshire Boulevard after becoming an "entrepreneur." And the Yippies' other co-founder, Abbie Hoffman, also has had his obituary filed. (Washington Times)
More of this story Apr 2, 2007
Age 70-74: 1 David Dean; 2 Jerry Counter; 3 Thomas Farmer; 4 Chuck Harvey; 5 Jerry Rubin. Age 75-79: 1 Jim Mansfield; 2 Don Phillips; 3 Earl Allen; 4 Don Utzman; 5 Armano Jimenez. (The Fort Meade Leader, FL)
Without draft as target, Iraq anti-war protests lack intensity of Vietnam era Mar 21, 2007
The Vietnam era featured larger-than-life figures - Martin Luther King Jr., John Lennon, Muhammad Ali - and colorful provocateurs such as Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. Hoffman masterminded the attempt to levitate the Pentagon in 1967; both were at the center of protests that sparked clashes with police at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. (AZCentral -- News)
Jacobs: March On Pentagon Feb 16, 2007
The March was sure to become something more when David Dellinger, Mobe co-ordinator and radical pacifist, asked future Yippie Jerry Rubin to be project director. From there, it became something more. (Zmag.org)
Graydon's Work In Progress Jan 31, 2007
GRAYDON'S WORK IN PROGRESS - Pagesix - New York Post Online Edition. Wednesday, January 31, 2007 Last Update: 10:45 AM EST. (New York Post -- Gossip)
The search is on at Sundance Jan 22, 2007
Chicago 10, made by The Kid Stays in the Picture documentarian Brett Morgen, uses real footage of political prankster "Yippies" Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin but also animation and voices by Nick Nolte, Hank Azaria and Jeffrey Wright to re-create the court scenes, of which no footage exists. "I wanted to make a film that mirrored 'yippie,' " Morgen says. (USA Today)
Stephen Smale awarded Wolf Prize in mathematics UCB, Jan. 19 Jan 20, 2007
He joined the Communist Party while in college, helped organize anti-war demonstrations on the UC Berkeley campus in the 1960s, including co-organizing with Jerry Rubin a 33-hour "Vietnam Day" teach-in in 1965, tried to stop troop trains passing through the city, and barely avoided a subpoena from the House Unamerican Activities Committee investigating Communists in this country. Considering the conservative climate of the era, it's not surprising that when he joked that his best mathematics... (University of California Newswire, CA)
Actors enliven Sundance documentaries Jan 20, 2007
Chicago 10 director Brett Morgen had endless archival footage of street protests and defendants such as Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman discussing the events in public. What he lacked was a way to incorporate the trial, until he came across a comment from Rubin that the courtroom saga was a cartoon show. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Redford Says Bush Owes an Apology Jan 20, 2007
It s the story of the 1968 Chicago trial of Tom Hayden, Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, Bobby Seale et al that made the late William Kunstler a star attorney. Chicago 10 is not actually a documentary. (Fox News -- Views)
'I think we're owed a big, massive apology'... Jan 19, 2007
Director Brett Morgen's documentary looks back at the notorious late 1960s trial of anti-war activists including Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, known at that time as the "Chicago Seven.". Reuters 2007. (The Drudge Report)
... with flowers in your gray hair Jan 15, 2007
Jerry Rubin denounced the war (in Vietnam, remember. . (San Francisco Chronicle)
Sundance Film Festival Jan 13, 2007
There is, however, a lot of buzz swirling around Thursday night's festival opener, "Chicago 10," which recounts the tumultuous 1969 trial of eight anti-war activists, including Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and Bobby Seale. Directed by Brett Morgen ("The Kid Stays in the Picture"), the movie's blend of animation with archival footage and such voices as Nick Nolte, Jeffrey Wright, Mark Ruffalo and Liev Schreiber, arouses hope among attendees that the rest of the festival will be just as insurgent in... (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Book recounts New Haven's Black Panther trial Jan 7, 2007
Protest leaders such as Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin were heading to New Haven for a massive May Day demonstration over the trial. Some agitators threatened to destroy the city, while a Yale student named Hillary Rodham was among those trying to keep the peace. (Newsday -- State)
The Lennon Files: The FBI and the Beatle Dec 22, 2006
" That embarrassment also extends very specifically to the Blair government. According to FBI records, the unnamed "foreign government" was asked for permission to release its documents on Lennon back in September 1997, just a few months after Mr Blair first took office. The foreign government said no, saying that secrecy remained necessary to avoid "serious and demonstrable harm to its sources, which remain sensitive". Reading the newly released documents, it is hard to see what the British... (Independent)
Deja Vu Premieres In London Dec 9, 2006
We had a guy called Jerry Rubin in this movie who was the basis for Denzel s character. It s great to have that sort of role model it s a very easy frame of reference. (Empire Online)
The U.S. vs. John Lennon (4 stars out of 5) Nov 25, 2006
Nixon, facing re-election in 1972, wasn't about to let Lennon and his radical pals, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, disrupt the next Republican convention and bring in a youthful tide that might sweep him from power. G. Gordon Liddy and John Dean confirm that the efforts to deport Lennon emanated from the top (thanks to a suggestion by Strom Thurmond). (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
'Chicago 10' doc to open Sundance Nov 17, 2006
Defendants repped a broad cross-section of the anti-war movement, from Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin to pacifist David Dellinger. Seven of the defendants were repped by Leonard Weinglass and William Kunstler, while Bobby Seale, co-chair of the Black Panther Party, defended himself. (Variety)
Campaign mailers spelled overtime for letter carriers Nov 8, 2006
Sitting in an Escondido cafe on Tuesday afternoon, Borrego Springs resident Jerry Rubin, 46, said he and his wife, who has a doctorate in conservation ecology, have a real problem with the waste of natural resources caused by all the junk mail. "They don't even try and do it on recycled paper," Rubin said. (North County Times)
Choruses of disapproval Oct 25, 2006
In December 1971, at the behest of activists Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman, John Lennon played at a "Free John Sinclair" concert in Michigan. Sinclair, head of the White Panther Party, had been sentenced to nine-and-a-half to 10 years in prison in 1969 for giving two joints to an undercover officer. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
A '60s primer Oct 18, 2006
Cultivating friendships with Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, and Bobby Seale, they stage pacifistic provocations. All You Need Is Love, Revolution, Give Peace a Chance, and Imagine become anthems of the peace movement. (San Antonio Current, TX)
Peace advocate Lennon examined in documentary (Christian Toto) Oct 3, 2006
Soon, however, he and new wife Yoko Ono staged "bed-ins" to protest the war and began hanging around with radicals such as Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. That's when government officials began taking a special interest in Mr. Lennon, resulting in phone taps and other unsavory investigative practices. (Washington Times)
Giving Lennon a chance Sep 30, 2006
Rather than retreat in the face of criticism, Lennon went on the offensive, allying with such revolutionary figures as Black Panther leaders Bobby Seale and Angela Davis, and Yippie activist Jerry Rubin, in the fight against the Vietnam War and the jackboot activities of the ruling forces of then-U.S. President Richard Nixon. Lennon made very few concert appearances after the demise of the Beatles. (Toronto Star -- Arts)
JENIFFER MERIN Sep 29, 2006
Interviews with various lawyers and illustrious commentators, such as Walter Cronkite, are included along with that of contemporaries Angela Davis, Abby Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and Bobby Seale. These are interspersed with cuts of Nixon, Hoover, INS, FBI agents and others on the opposition side. (New York Press)
A Lennon love fest, and an evocative tour of the '60s Sep 29, 2006
He also said, ``I'm an artist first and a politician second," and the deeper Lennon got, the more it was apparent. By the early '70s, when Lennon and Ono had allied themselves with activists such as Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, and Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers, their rhetoric had become increasingly naive. The couple's response to the government's decision to deport Lennon back to England was to hold a press conference announcing the founding of the country of ``Newtopia," with themselves as... (Boston Globe -- Living)
The John and Yoko show (David Germain) Sep 29, 2006
Mr. Lennon wound up under FBI surveillance as he began hanging out with such counterculture radicals as Bobby Seale, Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman and considered headlining a concert tour to help bring out the vote against President Nixon's re-election. Page 1 of 2. (Washington Times, DC)
With 'The U.S. vs. John Lennon,' they say they filmed an evolution Sep 24, 2006
" Whether he's singing or speaking, it's Lennon's experience in his own words, with Ono offering commentary and confirmation along the way.There are also stories the film doesn't tell. It doesn't delve into Lennon's actual drug use or his extramarital affairs. Those omissions were intentional, the filmmakers say, and unrelated to their need to access the film and video archives of which Ono is the gatekeeper. Instead, those parts of Lennon's life proved to be cul-de-sacs, as Leaf put it, dead... (Boston Globe -- Living)
The U.S. Vs. John Lennon Sep 17, 2006
"The U.S. versus John Lennon" features footage from that concert, including wildly radical speeches by Jerry Rubin, and Bobby Seale, who said "the only solution to pollution is a people's humane revolution!" ... On opening night in Philadelphia in October, 2004, Bruce Springsteen made only a brief political statement: "We're here to fight for a government that is open, rational, forward-looking and humane," he said not quite the same as Jerry Rubin at the 1972 concert shouting "what we are... (CBS News)
'The Black Dahlia': Pulp Fiction, By Kurt Loder Sep 16, 2006
Now he and Ono were living in New York City, where they had become tight with such abrasive anti-war stars as Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. Worse yet, he had begun a public friendship with Black Panther Party leader Bobby Seale an alarming figure in law-enforcement circles. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Yoko Ono approves of new Lennon doc Sep 12, 2006
Lennon wound up under FBI surveillance as he began hanging out with such counterculture radicals as Bobby Seale, Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman and considered headlining a concert tour to help bring out the vote against President Nixons re-election. The Nixon administrations response was to sic the Immigration and Naturalization Service on Lennon, seeking to deport him, ostensibly because of a drug conviction in England. (MSNBC -- Movies)
When talk wasn't cheap Aug 18, 2006
The idea of a host booking guests as varied as Jerry Rubin, Malcolm X and Richard Nixon -- and treating them all with a certain deference, as Douglas did -- is unheard of. Equally amazing is to consider that Douglas was a moderate; though he didn't always share his guests' views, he nonetheless insisted on everybody having his or her say. (Orlando Sentinel -- Opinion)
US chat show veteran Douglas dies Aug 13, 2006
He was unhappy that the former Beatle and his wife had invited the well-known anti-war activist Jerry Rubin on to the programme. Rubin "just got on my nerves", Douglas said. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Talk-show host Mike Douglas, 81, dies in Palm Beach Gardens Aug 13, 2006
In his memoir, I'll Be Right Back: Memories of TV's Greatest Talk Shows, he recalled the week in 1972 that ex-Beatle John Lennon and wife, Yoko Ono served as guest hosts and had anti-war activist Jerry Rubin on the show. "He (Rubin) just got on my nerves. It sounded like this guy hated the president, the Congress, everyone in business, the military, all police and just about everything America stands for," Mr. Douglas said. (Palm Beach Post)
Mike Douglas, former TV talk show host, dead at 81 Aug 12, 2006
One of the guest celebrities they selected was well-known anti-war activist Jerry Rubin. He just got on my nerves. (Orlando Sentinel)
TV host Mike Douglas, 81, dies Aug 12, 2006
In his memoir, I'll Be Right Back: Memories of TV's Greatest Talk Shows, he recalled the week in 1972 that former Beatle John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, served as guest hosts and had antiwar activist Jerry Rubin on the show. "He (Rubin) just got on my nerves. It sounded like this guy hated the president, the Congress, everyone in business, the military, all police and just about everything America stands for," Mr. Douglas said. (The Palm Beach Post)
He Built A Legacy Next To Limelight Aug 12, 2006
" Douglas was genial most of the time, but confided in his memoir that his composure was sorely tested one week in 1972 when former Beatle John Lennon and wife, Yoko Ono, were his unlikely guest hosts. One of the guest celebrities they selected was well-known antiwar activist Jerry Rubin. "He just got on my nerves. It sounded like this guy hated the president, the Congress, everyone in business, the military, all police and just about everything America stands for," Douglas said. He recalled... (Tampa Bay Online, FL -- News)
`Murder in the Model City' tracks rallies, riots, and a radical response Aug 8, 2006
The evening before the rally, Brewster met with its leaders, among them Yippie Jerry Rubin, who, during the rally, would alternate between foul-mouthing Brewster and counseling peaceful protest. Call it luck. (Boston Globe -- Living)
f olk Phenom Collins clings to her positive attitude Apr 20, 2006
She had attended a press conference with anti-Vietnam war protest leaders Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg. On the witness stand, Kunstler asked Collins what she did at the event. (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, VA)
Hand surgery to sideline Moore six to eight weeks Mar 21, 2006
0) { ES_showBox(); };ES_searchKeyPress( this. length );" onMouseDown="ES_searchKeyPress( this. (ESPN -- Golf)
IDENTITY CRISIS Mar 20, 2006
" In 1994, together with their sound man, they were given a military escort out of Haiti. Knoop and his wife (Judith, his high school sweetheart and a cousin of activist Jerry Rubin), lived for several years on the island of Mallorca, where their two daughters were born. Knoop had gone there to write, choosing to settle in the Majorcan town of Deya, the adopted home of British poet Robert Graves. In the mid-'60s, the Knoops returned to the States, settling in San Francisco -- drawn to the Free... (San Francisco Chronicle)
UH law professor was Asian-American activist Jan 18, 2006
"For that day, they brought on Jerry Rubin, head of the Yippies, and Bobby Seale, head of the Black Panthers, and us," Miyamoto said. Friend and UH law school Dean Avi Soifer described Iijima as a legal scholar. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
