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| Formation | 1966 |
|---|---|
| Founders | Emmett Grogan Peter Coyote Peter Berg Billy Landout |
| Dissolved | 1968 |
| Type | Community-action group |
| Purpose | To create a mini-society free of money and capitalism |
| Headquarters | Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, California, U.S. |
Region served | San Francisco; California |
| Services |
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Publication | The Digger Papers |
| Website | www |
The Diggers were a radical community-action group of activists and street theatre actors operating from 1966 to 1968, based in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. Their politics have been categorized as "left-wing;" more accurately, they were "community anarchists" who blended a desire for freedom with a consciousness of the community in which they lived.[1] The Diggers' central tenet was to be "authentic," seeking to create a society free from the dictates of money and capitalism.[2][3]
The Diggers were closely associated and shared a number of members with the guerrilla theater group San Francisco Mime Troupe. They were formed out of after-hours Mime Troupe discussions between Emmett Grogan, Peter Coyote, Peter Berg, and Billy Landout.[4]
The Diggers fostered and inspired later groups like the Yippies.
- ^ Contemporary Authors Online (2002) Gale, Detroit
- ^ "The Diggers Mystique". San Francisco Chronicle. 23 January 1967 – via International Times.
- ^ Gail Dolgin; Vicente Franco (2007). American Experience: The Summer of Love. PBS. Archived from the original on 2017-03-25. Retrieved 2007-04-23.
- ^ Grogan, Emmett (1972). Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps. Little, Brown.