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Topic: counterculture

Bob Weir accepts the 2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year award on January 31, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

Bob Weir was the boomer who did it best

Andi Zeisler
Freddie Mercury of Queen on September 19, 1980 in Chicago, Il. (Paul Natkin/WireImage)

The genius Freddie Mercury, 30 years on

Stephen Langston - The Conversation
No Rules by Sharon Dukett | Hippies standing in front of mini bus, holding musical instruments (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/She Writes Press)

Lessons from the hippies

Keith A. Spencer
The world is shattered by the coronavirus pandemic (Getty Images/Salon)

Can you live well in a dying world?

Curtis White
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Diptych of a fan flashing the peace sign during the concert marking the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock music festival, and Curtis white author of "Living in a World That Can't Be Fixed" (Author photo provided by publicist/Mario Tama/Getty Images/Salon)

Could the Hippies save Earth?

Keith A. Spencer
Protestors from ADAPT, a grass-roots community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, block the intersection of 15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW near the White House for nearly four hours September 20, 2010 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

How Disability Rights saved my life

Nadina LaSpina
Two young men in the boot of a car after hitching a lift home from the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair, August 1969. (Getty Images/Three Lions)

What happens when the Boomers die?

Keith A. Spencer
(Courtesy of the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging and Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Consortium of the Human Connectome Project - www.humanconnectomeproject.org, www.loni.usc.edu via AP)

Philosophers and psychedelics

Phillip Smith - Alternet
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FILE - In this June 21, 1967, file photo, a crowd of hippies keep a large ball, painted to represent a world globe, in the air during a gathering at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, to celebrate the summer solstice on June 21, day one of "Summer of Love." (AP Photo, File)

Politics of the counterculture

Ira Chernus - TomDispatch.com

Grateful Dead get a Love Light

Alli Joseph
(Reuters/Steve Marcus)

Bundy: '60s-style protest hero

Heather Digby Parton
A still from "Eyes Wide Shut"

Sex at the Satan Club

Jeffrey Sconce
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