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Jack Hanley Gallery presents exhibition of the San Francisco social activist and counter-cultural scene

NEW YORK, NY.- The Jack Hanley Gallery presents Diggers, Mimes, Angels and Heads, an archival exhibition of the San Francisco social activist and counter-cultural scene from 1966 to 1968. The exhibition includes photographs, posters, periodicals and other printed ephemera. At this moment, with the Occupy Wall Street movement offering up the thought of less capitalism and shifting the values of a money-oriented society, it seems timely to remember The Diggers–and a different use of the 1%. The Diggers, a loosely based gang of improv actors from the San Francisco Mime Troupe and their anarchist/absurdist friends, formed in 1966 and were active until about 1968 in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. These “activists” considered it “dribble” to have 10,000 people marching around the Federal Building to protest the war. But how great, they thought, would it be to have 10,000 people march around the Feder