Panelists participating in the discussion following the films are:
Osha (Tom) Neumann, muralist, an original member of New York's “Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers,” and currently active in Livermore Action Group and Organization for Non-Intervention in Central America.
Paul Krassner, investigative satirist, founder and editor of The Realist, and original founder of the Yippies (see his film Yippie Home Movie, February 19).
“European Surrealists, and later grizzled American Wobblies, may have been the first to promote the notion of prefiguring a new society within the shell of the old, but it took American hippies who had heard neither of Surrealists nor Wobblies to attempt to live out the dream of 1967 and the Summer of Love. Dope, sex and rock-and-roll (not necessarily in that order) would produce the new person. Instant change: a ‘parallel universe' of free newspapers, free music, free dope sprang into existence almost overnight, centering at first in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. ‘The West is the best, get here and we'll do the rest,' sang Jim Morrison.
“Not everything was mindless hippism, however. The Diggers and the SF Mime Troupe built bridges to
dropout youth of the San Francisco panhandle. SF Good Times chronicles the growing pains of one counter-cultural institution, an alternative newspaper. Across the continent, East Coast Flower Children faced a harder-edged reality on their concrete streets. The Woodstock Nation had yet to be merchandized by Ticketron. Dismissed by both the Old and New Left, patronized by the media, the growing counterculture became a focus for political work for activists like Abbie Hoffman, Paul Krassner and Osha (Tom) Neumann in Last Summer Won't Happen.
“Like earlier Surrealists and Wobblies, veterans of the time of Magic Thinking survived to see the dilemma of inner change accomplished and the outer, larger shell still standing.” Peter Gessner

San Francisco Good Times