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One of Abbie's most famous actions was using the greed of Wall Street against itself - showering dollar bills onto the trading-room floor and watching the brokers claw through each other to get at the cash. This type of action became known as "guerria theatre": "Theatre, guerilla theatre, can be used as defense and as an offensive weapon. I mean, I think like people could survive naked, see. I think you could take all your fuckin' clothes off, a cop won't hit ya. You jump in Lake Michigan, he won't go after you, but people are too chickenshit to do that. It can be used as an offensive and defensive weapon, like blood." In the 70s, Abbie went underground to avoid being sent to jail on drug charges, but he continued to be politically active. In his last years, Hoffman suffered from severe manic depression. While deeply depressed, he committed suicide in 1989.

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