no how berkeley can you be fest this year : (

Dear Frank,

I don't know if Corey mentioned it to you all, but there was a letter in the Berkeley Daily Planet from one of the co-founders of the How Berkeley Can You Be fest and he said that due to financial considerations, there would be no festival this year. I'd love to see an anarchistic version of the thing happen... no permits, no authorization, just a bunch of weird people dressing up and having a giant party. Just converge like a flash mob and take over some city park! Of course, I am not the person to organize such an effort, I'm just spouting off here... any ideas?

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yes, I sent it out yesterday. On the surface level it is about the bad economy. But in reality they don't want the people [our kind of people] to gather together. That was the feeling even last year. You could feel it was the last parade. Everything was in a lower key.

Actually i did two "FANTASY COSTUME PARADES" in the mid- seventies which were the model of HOW BERKELEY CAN YOU BE. We started in PEOPLE'S PARK [or actually the park above it] and ended in HO MINH [CIVIC] PARK with big free concerts. A lot of nudity, see-through colorful costumes, body paint and glitter. But you need a few months to set it up. Also that was back in the time when the City supported such actions. So we could get permits.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore