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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the ’60s underground press. Part I: The ‘Barb’ reunion
That independent, noncorporate, grassroots outburst of countercultural participatory journalism is finally beginning to generate modern-day notice.
Eugene Schoenfeld aka “Dr. HIPpocrates,” author of the infamous sexuality and health column, “Dr. Hip,” with Barb 50th anniversary organizer Diana Stephens. Photo by John Jekabson, former Barb managing editor.
It’s fiftieth anniversary season for the countercultural underground press class of 1965 — time to celebrate because that was the year the East Village Other, the Berkeley Barb, The Paper, and the Fifth Estate appeared for the first time.
The next year, those four papers and the Los Angeles Free Press — founded in 1964 by Art Kunkin with inspiration from the recently invented offset printing process — together formed the Underground Press Syndicate (UPS), the first nationwide network of countercultural underground papers from this country, along with two British pacifist publications, Peace News and Sanity.
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