Editing Flower power (section)

==Origin==
The term "Flower Power" originated in [[Berkeley, California]], as a symbolic action of protest against the Vietnam War. In a November 1965 essay titled ''How to Make a March/Spectacle'', Beat poet Allen Ginsberg advocated that protesters should be provided with "masses of flowers" to hand out to policemen, press, politicians and spectators.<ref>Ginsberg, Allen, "Demonstration or Spectacle as Example, As Communication, or How to Make a March/Spectacle", ''Berkeley Barb'', November 19, 1965, republished in ''The Portable Sixties Reader'', Ann Charles (Ed.), Penguin Classic, 2002, p.208-212 {{ISBN|978-0-14-200194-3}}</ref> The use of props like flowers, toys, flags, candy and music were meant to turn anti-war rallies into a form of [[street theater]] thereby reducing the fear, anger and threat that is inherent within protests.<ref>Ben Shepard,[http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/1/BenShepard/shepard2.html "Absurd Responses vs. Earnest Politics"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703163847/http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/1/BenShepard/shepard2.html |date=2008-07-03 }}, ''Journal of Aesthetics and Protest'', Volume 1, Issue 2, January 2003</ref>  In particular, Ginsberg wanted to counter the "specter" of the [[Hells Angels]] motorcycle gang who supported the war, equated war protesters with communists and had threatened to violently disrupt planned anti-war demonstrations at the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref>{{cite book | first=Lewis | last=Hyde | title=On the poetry of Allen Ginsberg | publisher=University of Michigan Press | date=January 1, 1985 | page=[https://archive.org/details/onpoetryofalleng0000unse/page/264 264] | isbn=0-472-06353-7 | url=https://archive.org/details/onpoetryofalleng0000unse/page/264 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | first=Allen | last=Ginsberg | title=Family Business: Selected Letters Between a Father and Son | url=https://archive.org/details/familybusiness00alle | url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/familybusiness00alle/page/241 241] | publisher=Bloomsbury | date=September 7, 2002 | isbn=1-58234-216-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | first=Barry | last=Miles | title=Hippie | page=50 | publisher=Sterling | date=August 28, 2005 | isbn=1-4027-2873-5}}</ref> Using Ginsberg's methods, the protest received positive attention and the use of "flower power" became an integral symbol in the counterculture movement.<ref>William Lawlor, ''Beat culture: lifestyles, icons, and impact'', ABC-CLIO (2005), p.126  {{ISBN|1-85109-400-8}}</ref>