Editing Abbie Hoffman (section)

=== Continuing protests ===
At [[Woodstock Festival|Woodstock]] in 1969, Hoffman interrupted [[the Who]]'s performance to attempt to speak against the jailing of [[John Sinclair (poet)|John Sinclair]] of the [[White Panther Party]]. He grabbed a microphone and yelled, "I think this is a pile of shit while John Sinclair rots in prison&nbsp;..." [[Pete Townshend]] was adjusting his amplifier between songs and turned to look at Hoffman over his left shoulder. Townshend shouted "Fuck off! Fuck off my fucking stage!"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pacificaviet.html|title=UC Berkeley Library Social Activism Sound Recording Project: Anti-Vietnam War Protests – San Francisco Bay Area|work=berkeley.edu|access-date=April 10, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://servlet1.lib.berkeley.edu:8080/audio/stream.play.logic?coll=mrc&filename=abbiewho.mp3|title=Who guitarist Pete Townshend yells "Fuck off! Get the fuck off my fucking stage!" and strikes Hoffman with his guitar, sending him tumbling offstage.|work=berkeley.edu|access-date=April 10, 2017|archive-date=October 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023115813/http://servlet1.lib.berkeley.edu:8080/audio/stream.play.logic?coll=mrc&filename=abbiewho.mp3|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="riot">{{cite book|first=Peter|last= Doggett|date=2007|title=There's A Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of '60s Counter-Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=emI9LXJ47KUC&pg=PT476|location=London|publisher=Canongate Books|pages=476|isbn=978-1847676450}}</ref> and reportedly ran at Hoffman with his guitar and hit Hoffman in the back, although Townshend later denied attacking Hoffman.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0167zf4 |title=BBC 6 Music Documentary 'Before I Get Old' |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=November 9, 2012 |access-date=December 4, 2013}}</ref> Townshend later said that while he actually agreed with Hoffman on Sinclair's [[Incarceration|imprisonment]], he would have knocked him offstage regardless of the content of his message, given that Hoffman had violated the "sanctity of the stage," i.e., the right of the band to perform uninterrupted by distractions not relevant to the show. The incident took place during a camera change and was not captured on film. The audio of this incident, however, can be heard on The Who's box set ''[[Thirty Years of Maximum R&B]]'' (Disc 2, Track 20, "Abbie Hoffman Incident").

In 1971, Hoffman published ''[[Steal This Book]]'', which advised readers on how to live for free. (Many readers followed his advice and stole the book, leading many bookstores to refuse to carry it.) The book contained a section called "Free Communication," in which Hoffman encourages his readership to take to the stage at rock concerts to use the pre-assembled audience and PA system to get their message out. However, he mentions that "interrupting the concert is frowned upon since it is only spitting in the faces of people you are trying to reach."<ref name="riot" />

In ''[[Woodstock Nation (book)|Woodstock Nation]]'', Hoffman mentions the incident and says he was on a [[bad trip|bad LSD trip]] at the time. [[Joe Shea]], then a reporter for the ''[[Times Herald-Record]]'', a local newspaper that covered the event on-site, said he saw the incident. He recalled that Hoffman was actually hit in the back of the head by Townshend's guitar and toppled directly into the pit in front of the stage. He does not recall any "shove" from Townshend, and discounts both men's accounts.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kent |first=Stephen A. |title=From slogans to mantras: social protest and religious conversion in the late Vietnam War era |date=2001 |publisher=Syracuse Univ. Press |isbn=978-0-8156-2948-1 |edition=1st |series=Religion and politics |location=Syracuse, N.Y}}</ref>

Hoffman was also the author of several other books, including ''Vote!'' co-written with Rubin and [[Ed Sanders]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Brate |first=Adam |title=Technomanifestos: Visions of the Information Revolutionaries |date=July 4, 2002 |publisher=Texere |isbn=978-1587991035 |chapter=Chapter Eight: Mediation for the Hell of It}}</ref>