2018-02-28 16:20
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2018-02-23 12:53
By Kimberly Ayer, Writer/worldwidehippies.com The March for Our Lives will be held in Washington, D.C. on March 24, 2018. This of course has been organized by the students of the latest… Read More
2018-02-23 12:41
By Sherry Pasquarello.Senior Columnist/worldwidehippies.com I live in Pittsburgh and when the Juncos head back north we smile because spring weather is on the way. The big surprise was a fie… Read More
2018-02-21 15:12
By Sherry Pasquarello,Senior Columnist/worldwidehippies.com The other day someone needed a tow truck. No problem, the guy shows up and tows the car; you are in the truck with the driver. Eve… Read More
2018-02-20 15:35
By Sherry Pasquarello,Senior Columnist/worldwidehippies.com Yeppers now that it’s been proven that Russia interfered with our election-AND IT HAS- can we forget about a wall on the bor… Read More
2018-02-16 15:02
By Sherry Pasquarello,Senior Columnist/worldwidehippies.com I’ve been seeing quite a few debates on social media about hitting your kids. It is sad how many young parents are using cor… Read More
2018-02-14 17:08
By Sherry Pasquarello/Senior Columnist/worldwidehippies.com My daughter took my soon to be 14 year old granddaughter to see Joe Biden last night here in Pittsburgh. We are fans, I suppose yo… Read More
2018-02-14 16:54
The shootings occurred two years before the deaths of students at Kent State University, but remain a little-known incident in the Civil Rights Movement Cleveland Sellers, center, stands wit… Read More
2018-02-14 16:50
Posted at; travelhippies.in/ – “My name is Dolkar and I am from a remote village of Padum region in Zangskar,” said a student who was given the responsibility of taking us… Read More
2018-02-14 16:44
After half a century, the counterculture squatters of Kalalau Valley are facing a final eviction. Authored by by Brendan Borrell /Posted at;hakaimagazine.com/ Stream or down… Read More
2018-02-12 15:09
By Sherry Pasquarello,Senior Columnist/worldwidehippies.com I was talking with my cousin recently. Her father and mother and my father and mother were best friends. She is my cousin by heart… Read More
2018-02-11 15:04
By Sherry Pasquarello/worldwidehippies.com That’s what I have always named the folks I met in the city in the late 60’s. That included everyone that I saw almost every day or nig… Read More
2018-01-06 15:22
By Diane DeVillers/Posted at;dailytwocents.com/ Every day the Trump administration’s “Punch the Hippie” campaign moves closer to the punch. Whether it’s challeng… Read More
2018-01-06 14:51
by Chris Jarvis /Posted on January 6, 2018 by Norwich Radical – by Chris Jarvis It’s a common cliché that the quality and abundance of political a… Read More
2018-01-05 16:52
By Diana Carson-May /worldwidehippies.com To this date I have never referred to Donald Trump as the President. I just can’t bring myself to say it. I mostly refer to him by his l… Read More
2018-01-05 16:12
Play Audio in Browser Window The state’s Cannabis Control Commission still plans to begin marijuana sales this year. (noexcusesradio/Pixabay.com) January 5, 2018 – Andrea Se… Read More
2018-01-05 15:09
By Sherry Pasquarello,Senior Columnist/worldwidehippies.com By now I’m sure you’ve all seen the battle royal between Trump and Bannon and the prick waving between OUR “belo… Read More
2018-01-04 15:59
By Levi Asher /Posted at;itkicks.com When I heard that W. S. Merwin had received the 2005 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Migrations, I couldn’t help but think ba… Read More
2018-01-04 15:50
2017 made the world a more dangerous place. From North Korea to Venezuela, here are the conflicts to watch in 2018. BY ROBERT MALLEY /Posted at;http://foreignpolicy.com/ It’… Read More
2018-01-03 15:11
By Sherry Pasquarello,Senior Columnist/worldwidehippies.com Shortest to tallest, 1st grade through 8th we marched in silence being careful not to touch the walls. Sisters hated handprints. D… Read More
2017-12-29 15:05
In 1964, Charles became the first black photographer hired by the New York Times Photographer Don Hogan Charles on the streets of late 1960s New York. (The New York Times/Redux) By… Read More
2017-12-29 14:58
By Chris Bennett on December 28, 2017/Posted at;cannabisculture.com/ CANNABIS CULTURE – When most people think of the history of cannabis, they generally flash to the “grass&rdqu&hell…Read More
2017-12-29 14:52
By Bob Bragman, SFGATE/Posted at;sfgate.com – Sausalito, San Francisco’s laid-back neighbor just across the Golden Gate Bridge, has a rich history. From Portuguese boat buil… Read More
2017-12-17 14:56
By ANGUS CHEN • DEC 16, 2017/Posted at;http://wvik.org/ Psychedelic drugs are getting a makeover, with scientists exploring their potential in treating debilitatin… Read More
2017-12-17 14:48
By BLAKE NICHOLSON, ASSOCIATED PRESS/Posted at;http://abcnews.go.com/ –BISMARCK, N.D. — Dec 16, 2017, 12:42 PM ET The Associated PressFILE – In this Feb. 23, 2017 file… Read More
2017-12-17 14:27
By L.A.S./worldwidehippies.com Do you have a ‘Vignette’ of your life you would like to share with Worldwide Hippies? Essays, poetry, videos, art… Contact joe@worldwid… Read More
2017-12-16 15:17
By Emily Wilson /Posed at;truthdig.com/ Pat Thomas read Abbie Hoffman’s “Steal This Book” at age 10, after his 20-year-old brother brought it home. Thomas appreciated… Read More
2017-12-16 12:17
A gold-brocade vest at the Smithsonian evokes the innovative musician’s enduring legacy image: https://thumbs-prod.si-cdn.com/saWdaIMavmmu1C4mejl1135peqk=/800×600/filters:no_upsc… Read More
2017-12-15 15:25
Posted at;thewanderingfoxy.com/ – As I have already mentioned in my previous articles, I don’t believe in labels. But, I’m a woman who is constantly searching in the depth… Read More
2017-12-15 15:13
The final statements prisoners’ give before they die offer potential insights into our own psyche. But more work needs to be done. By Nathaniel Scharping | Posted at;http://b… Read More
2017-12-15 14:57
Fragments Of A Memoir Set To A Musical Soundtrack by Phil Rockstroh / Posted at;dissidentvoice.org/ Having been born in a coal and steel company town but destiny delivered, as an adult, to r… Read More
2017-12-15 14:26
By Sherry Pasquarello, senior Columnist/worldwidehippies.com I’m a big advocate of paying it forward. Early this morning I was a recipient of it. We had our first measurable snow last… Read More
2017-12-14 18:07
Suchitra Sebastian investigates how superconductor technology could be applied in the real world. By Melissa Pandika/Posted at;ozy.com SOURCEALVARO TAPIA HIDALGO FOR OZY WHY YOU SHOULD CARE… Read More
2017-12-14 17:13
Even as her father’s dementia makes communication difficult, he adores singing. Our reporter learns he isn’t alone – and research has found music may be key to understandin… Read More
2017-12-14 16:51
AFRO Editorial by: AFRO Staff/Posted at;afro.com – / (Commentary Cartoon Courtesy of Kofi Tyrus) / America lost one of the most courageous journalists ever to put pen to paper. Simeon… Read More
2017-12-13 15:59
Major firms hiring people from corporate security firms to monitor and infiltrate political groups that object to their commercial activities Surveillance firms spied on campaign groups for… Read More
2017-12-13 15:20
This Jenu Keruba man was shot by forest guards. Tribes like the Jenu Keruba face routine harassment, and illegal eviction from their ancestral home. © Survival From- Survival Internatio… Read More
2017-12-13 15:04
By Sherry Pasquarello,Senior Columnist/worldwidehippies.com Who better to work for the end of nuclear bombs than a woman who lived through one? A winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Priz… Read More
2017-12-12 16:30
So-called “cures” dismissed by experts – such as hypnosis and drugs – are used for homosexuality in Russia. By Anastasia GolubevaBBC Russian Service/Posted at;bbc.com… Read More
2017-12-12 16:04
Travel stories, must do activities and more. By Purvi Kamaliya Posted at;travelhippies.in/ – The spiritual vibes and the devotion of the people in worshiping the mighty river of Ganga… Read More
2017-12-12 15:57
Posted at;ivy-style.com – In 1969, when the Ivy League was shedding Weejuns and growing sideburns at an alarming rate, three students — Andrew Tobias, Arnold Bortz and Caspar Wei… Read More
2017-12-11 15:48
NGO Urban Light in Chiang Mai has reached 5,000 teenagers caught up in prostitution rackets in Thailand’s second city. by Clare Wiley/Posted at;aljazeera.com/ – For five years Kr… Read More
2017-12-11 14:56
Communal living opportunities are popping up nationwide, appealing to everyone from singles in their 20s to retired couples. Posted at;crixeo.com BY DANIELLE BRAFF COMMUNAL LIVIN… Read More
2017-12-11 11:25
By Sherry Pasquarello,Senior Columnist/worldwidehippies.com By now I hope that we’ve reached enough of you sweet hippies on our new Facebook page that the word is getting out that not… Read More
2017-12-10 12:17
By L.A. Phoenix/worldwidehippies.com – I was driving home one night, during a time when my life had come crashing down around me and left my vision continually blurred and m… Read More
2017-12-09 14:05
Goolawah is an off-grid community of 65 people near Port Macquarie on the NSW Mid-North Coast The community does not have access to town water, sewerage treatment or electricity… Read More
2017-12-09 13:56
Posted at You Yube mediasanctuary Journalist, author and war correspondent Chris Hedges spoke at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY on November 10, 2017 on fascism and empir… Read More
2017-12-04 16:52
By JANE BOWRON/Posted at;stuff.co.nz/ – OPINION: I was in the middle of choking the alligator, continually stopping to rejoin the hose pipe to the engine, all the while muttering… Read More
2017-12-04 16:41
Most people over the age of 16 have seen the iconic Cheech and Chong movies. Debuting in the latter half of 1978, Up In Smoke hasn’t only (somehow) withstood the test of time, but it l… Read More
2017-12-04 16:31
U.S. Armed Forces service members speak out about facing cancer, brain tumors, birth defects in their children and other rare health problems since being exposed to radiation during a humani… Read More
2017-12-04 16:10
Smoking kif is seen as part of the local culture, and is largely tolerated by the authorities. By AFP/Posted at;africanews.com – It may not feature in Morocco’s official tou… Read More
2017-12-04 14:05
By Sherry Pasquarello,Senior Columnist/worldwidehippies.com I along with many others who were never big enough to make more than a ripple in the American psyche have been saying it for ages:… Read More
2017-12-03 15:02
A new book tells the complex stories behind murderous women, the so-called “femmes fatales.” The accused “Angel Makers of Nagyrév” walk in the Szolnok prison y… Read More
2017-12-03 14:54
13th Floor Elevators weren’t the only local psych act exploring Austin’s outer limits – and still doing so BY BILL BENTLEY, FRI., DEC. 1, 2017/Posted at;austinchr… Read More
2017-12-03 14:47
s a result of their own struggles with racism and injustice in the U.S., Asians and Asian Americans have exhibited a history of complicity in the oppression of black bodies. By Shashank… Read More
2017-12-03 14:23
A new book on Spain Rodriguez revisits his innovative repertoire, but ignores the extent to which some of his comix revel in the sexism regularly broadcast in the era’s male-autho… Read More
2017-12-03 14:12
How much compensation should Indians get as compensation for nuclear damage—Rs 2400 crores Or Rs 7844 crores Or Rs 19,785 crores Or Rs 50,000 crores Or Rs 1.14 lakh crores Or Rs 6.4 la… Read More
2017-12-02 20:39
By Human Rights Legal Support Centre/Posted at;newswire.ca/ – TORONTO, Dec. 1, 2017 /CNW/ – The Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres (OFIFC) and the… Read More
2017-12-02 18:32
The Mathematics of the Culture War On America, Kurt Lewin, nature, nurture, The Culture War on America embraces subjective reality – it is a weapon of destabilization in the informatio… Read More
2017-12-02 16:26
A lot of marriages aren’t horrible but they’re no longer satisfying or loving. Posted at;nzherald.co.nz/ By 2030, it’s predicted that in excess of 800,000 American senior c… Read More
2017-12-02 14:55
Amnesty International is calling for a criminal investigation into oil giant Shell after analyzing evidence pointing to complicity in murder, rape and torture. Massive cache of internal docu… Read More
2017-12-02 14:44
Posted at RT.comRosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus 62 years ago, opening a new chapter in US civil rights struggle. Rosa Parks © Reuters… Read More
2017-12-02 14:13
There is no doubt that the limitless possibilities offered by the desert often attract the most eccentric personalities. But it would be a mistake to call them crazy. It sometimes takes a ge… Read More
2017-12-02 14:06
By Steve Terrell | The New Mexican/Posted at;santafenewmexican.com/ – It was a love story that lasted for decades. Tommy and Gloria Masters were two old hippies who were mainstays in N… Read More
2017-12-01 14:55
Angelina McNeela takes a sip of her tea while showing off a simple yoga pose for her Beer and Yoga class provided once a week at The House.Victoria Kosuth | Northern Star/Posted at;northerns… Read More
2017-12-01 14:50
“It’s my view that the use of marijuana is detrimental, and we should not give encouragement in any way to it.” By Stef W. Kight/Posted at;axios.com – Sessions h… Read More
2017-12-01 14:44
Robert Plant reflects on the importance of travel, how rock music lost steam, and why he’ll never write a memoir… by Marcel Anders/Posted at;http://teamrock.com/ – De… Read More
2017-12-01 14:36
December 1, 2017 – Eric Galatas, Public News Service (UT) Play Audio in Browser Window Suicide rates among youths in Utah have tripled since 2007, and LGBTQ people are especially… Read More
2017-12-01 14:31
Published time: 30 Nov, 2017 23:00Edited time: 1 Dec, 2017 08:45 at;rt.com/ Get short URL © TheWikiLeaksChannel / YouTube WikiLeaks have released their own take on the tradition of Chri… Read More
2017-12-01 13:13
By Sherry Pasquarello,Senior Columnist/worldwidehippies.com It Was Simply Inevitable A coal baron who escaped real consequences for the deaths of 29 workers will run for U.S. Senate in West… Read More
2017-11-30 14:40
By CBS | Posted: Tue 2:40 PM, Nov 28, 2017 | Updated: Tue 2:41 PM, Nov 28, 2017 NEW YORK (CBS) — Arts and crafts enthusiasts have known for years t… Read More
2017-11-30 14:35
For some who moved west for work, this dream was temporary. For others, it lasted a lifetime Women shipfitters working on board the USS Nereus at the U.S. Navy Yard in Mare Island, circa 194… Read More
2017-11-30 14:30
About two hundred people rally and march for Sam DuBose Saturday, July 8, 2017 in downtown Cincinnati. The Enquirer/Meg Vogel By Cameron Knight /Posted at;cincinnati.com/ &nda&hell…Read More
2017-11-30 14:12
The Music of the Plants project, created by a spiritual eco-community, investigates how humans can live more consciously and harmoniously with the natural environment. By Monica Uszerow… Read More
2017-11-29 14:30
Pictured, clockwise from top (L), Oglala Lakota activist LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, Yup’ik traditional healer Rita Pitka-Blumenstein and Anishinaabe activist Winona LaDuke. By Cecily H… Read More
2017-11-29 14:07
ByTijana Radeska/Posted at;thevintagenews.com – Between the mid-1950s and the late 1970s, many people took the opportunity to roam what was once Persia. Throngs of American hippies, wa… Read More
2017-11-29 13:56
PHOTOS WIKICOMMONS & GAGE SKIDMORE/FLICKR Several plaintiffs, including 12-year-old cannabis patient Alexis Bortell, have filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the D… Read More
2017-11-29 13:49
By Modal Trigger/Posted at;nypost.com Move over, Brooklyn and Oakland, Calif. — the most hipster-infested cities in America are actually in the middle of nowhere. Vancouver, Wash… Read More
2017-11-29 10:46
By Sherry Pasquarello,Senior Columnist/worldwidehippies.com Yes, this is important. It’s VERY important: Time Inc. Sells Itself to Meredith Corp., Backed by Koch Brothers A long chapte… Read More
2017-11-28 18:11
By John Newsom | [email protected]/Posted at;greensboro.com – Harry Wilton Perkins Jr., who was better known around Greensboro as Electro. Courtesy of Strickland & Jo… Read More
2017-11-28 17:36
Everybody who’s ever gone to a protest has, at one time or another, been told to “get a job,” and I’ve always wondered about the origins of this particular form of he… Read More
2017-11-28 17:29
Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images By AMEN OYIBOKE/Posted at;bustle.com/ – Earlier in November, singer, performer and actor Della Reese died. The Hollywood… Read More
2017-11-28 17:16
Dave Tomlin tells Dan Carrier how he and fellow squatters turned Cambodia’s embassy into an artistic hub when the Khmer Rouge took over the country in 1975 By Dan Carrier /Posted… Read More
2017-11-27 14:04
By Nima Elbagir, Raja Razek, Alex Platt and Bryony Jones Tripoli, Libya (CNN) /Posted at;cnn.com — “Eight hundred,” says the auctioneer. “900 … 1,000 &hel&hell…Read More
2017-11-27 13:54
By Miroslav Tomoski/Posted at;herb.co – View from the stage at The Happening music festival in Laguna Beach, 1970. | Photo: Mark Chamberlain/BC Space A far cry from the bust… Read More
2017-11-27 13:16
By Sherry Pasquarello, Senior Columnist/worldwidehippies.com Yeppers, tis the season for a whole slew of holidays; it’s a great time for the spirit of we hippies to shine. A lot… Read More
2017-11-26 17:48
In 1887, African-American cane workers in Louisiana attempted to organize—and many paid with their lives Laurel Valley in Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, became a refuge for displaced wor… Read More
2017-11-26 17:45
by William Kaufman /Posted at;dissidentvoice.org/ – I confess to being troubled rather than elated by the daily rumble of idols falling to accusations of “sexual misconduct… Read More
2017-11-26 17:34
“Inside a broken clock, splashing the wine with all the rain dogs” – Tom Waits, Rain Dogs By Paul Sorene /Posted at;flashbak.com – Cafe Lehmitz was a d… Read More
2017-11-26 17:11
By Benjamin H. Smith @bhsmithnycNov 24, 2017 at 2:00pm Photo: HBO Documentary Films James Brown is one of those rare artists whose importance truly can’t be overst… Read More
2017-11-25 16:55
How to fall asleep is a matter of prime concern in today’s stressful world. The stress and anxiety make you unable to doze off even when you are tired. If the condition persists… Read More
2017-11-25 16:48
BY MORGAN DAIMLER/Posted at;patheos.com – There’s a lot of people who have questions about the Morrigan and I sometimes have people on social media either private message me… Read More
2017-11-25 16:41
In this season, show your support for family farmers with a FREE No Farms No Food ® bumper sticker today! By signing up for a FREE No Farms No Food ® bumper stick… Read More
2017-11-25 16:37
By Dan DeLuca/Posted at;philly.com/ Nick Lowe wrote the most pertinent concert-closing political protest song of 2017. In 1974. And the British songwriter and producer, then the bass pl… Read More
2017-11-25 15:56
Outlaw country goes platinum, too. By GABE ECHAZABAL /Posted at;Today in rock history: on this date in 1991, incomparable lead singer and rock and roll frontman Freddie Mercury&n&hell…Read More
2017-11-25 15:44
TIME OF CHANGE: Bundjalung nation elder Uncle Cecil Roberts reflects on the 1973 Aquarius Festival, which he attended when he was 16 years old.Marc Stapelberg by Marc Stapelberg /Posted… Read More
2017-11-24 15:13
Posted at;dw.com – Missing for more than a decade, over 100 items believed to have belonged to the late musician were recovered in Berlin. A suspect has been charged in their theft. Mo… Read More
2017-11-24 14:57
MYSTERY surrounds a radiation cloud drifting across Europe and Russia with fallout detected at levels up to 1,000 times worse than normal. By Henry Holloway / Published 2… Read More
2017-11-24 14:43
JEFF DESJARDINS on November 22, 2017 at 1:31 pm It’s no secret that an aging population will be the source of major demographic challenges in the coming years. In 1975, the m… Read More
2017-11-24 14:35
File photo: Jonas Ekströmer / TT More than 1,700 students have joined an appeal against sexual harassment in Sweden’s schools, with testimonies of abuse experienced from as young… Read More
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