Editing Diggers (section)

== Influence ==
The [[Diggers (theater)|San Francisco Diggers]] were a community-action group of activists and Street Theatre actors operating from 1966 to 1968, based in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of [[San Francisco]].

Since the revival of [[anarchism]] in the British [[Road protest in the United Kingdom|anti-roads movement]], the Diggers have been celebrated as precursors of land [[squatting]] and [[Communalism (Bookchin)|communalism]].
On 1 April 1999, the 350th anniversary of the Diggers' occupation of the English Civil War on the same hill, [[The Land Is Ours]] organised a rally, then occupied land at [[St. George's Hill]] near [[Weybridge]], [[Surrey]].

In 2011, an annual festival began in [[Wigan]] to celebrate the Diggers. In 2012, the second annual festival proved a great success and the sixth took place in 2016.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wigandiggersfestival.org/ |title=Wigan Diggers' Festival |website=Wigan Diggers' Festival |access-date=21 March 2018}}</ref> In [[Wellingborough]], a festival has also been held annually since 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.diggersfestival.org.uk/about |title=About the Diggers |website=The Wellingborough Diggers' Festival |access-date=7 November 2018 |archive-date=7 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107185502/http://www.diggersfestival.org.uk/about |url-status=dead }}</ref> Bolton Diggers were established in 2013 and have promoted the [[commons]] as a foil to [[privatisation]]. They have established community food gardens, cooperatives and the Common Wealth café, a pay-what-you-want café using surplus food from supermarkets.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://theboltonnews.co.uk/news/11205688.Up_to_40_people_per_day_visit_free_soup_kitchen_in_Bolton_town_centre/ |title=Up to 40 people per day visit free soup kitchen in Bolton town centre |website=The Bolton News |date=12 May 2014 |access-date=21 March 2018}}</ref> The Manchester Urban Diggers, which operate out of [[Platt Fields Park|Platt Fields Gardens]], takes its name and ethos from the historical diggers, and supports developing [[food sovereignty]] through "educational services and growing fruit, vegetables and herbs to make available to the local community".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-01 |title=Platt Fields Market Garden: A glimpse of green amidst the gray |website=The Mancunion |url=https://mancunion.com/2022/10/01/platt-fields-market-garden-a-glimpse-of-green-amidst-the-gray/ |access-date=2023-07-28 |language=en-GB}}</ref>

=== Influence on literature and popular culture ===
* In 1966, a faction of the [[San Francisco Mime Troupe]] formed a Diggers group in the [[hippie]] community in the [[Haight–Ashbury]] district of San Francisco. A strongly anti-establishment group, they handed out free food in [[Golden Gate Park]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Barry |last=Miles |year=2003 |title=Hippie |publisher=Sterling Press |isbn=1402714424 |page=106}}</ref>
* "The World Turned Upside Down" by [[Leon Rosselson]], 1975, a song about the Diggers and their activities on St. George's Hill in 1649; this song was also performed by numerous other artists, including:
** [[Dick Gaughan]] on his album ''[[Handful of Earth]]'', 1981
** [[The Barracudas]] on their album ''Endeavour to Persevere'', 1984<!--
no source, no indication of notability: ** Out of the Rain on their album ''A Common Treasury'', 1985-->
** [[Billy Bragg]] on his ''[[Between the Wars (EP)|Between the Wars]]'' EP, 1985
** [[Chumbawamba]] on the b-side of their single ''Timebomb'', 1993
** [[Four to the Bar]] on ''[[Another Son]]'' in 1995
** [[Attila the Stockbroker]] with Barnstormer on ''The Siege of Shoreham'', 1996
** [[Oysterband]] on their albums ''Shouting End of life'' and ''Alive and Shouting'', 1995 and 1996
** [[Karan Casey]] (formerly of the Irish band [[Solas (group)|Solas]]), on her album ''Songlines'', 1997
** [[Clandestine (band)|Clandestine]], a Houston-based Celtic group, on their album ''To Anybody at All'', 1999<!--
no source, no indication of notability: ** [[The Fagans]], an Australian folk group, on their album, ''[[Turning Fine]]'', 2002
** Seattle Celt-rock band Coventry on the album ''Red Hair and Black Leather'', 2005
** Vancouver punk bank [[The Rebel Spell]] on the album "[[Beautiful Future]]", 2011-->
** [[Ramshackle Glory]] on the album "[[Live the Dream]]", 2016<!--
no source, no indication of notability: ** [[Melanie Gruben]] on the EP "[[Like a Tide Upon the Land]]", 2023.-->
* ''[[Winstanley (film)|Winstanley]]'', a fictionalised 1975 film portrait of the Diggers, directed by [[Kevin Brownlow]], was based upon the novel ''Comrade Jacob'' by [[David Caute]].
* ''As Meat Loves Salt'' by [[Maria McCann]], Harcourt, 2001 ({{ISBN|015601226X}}) deals in part with the founding and destruction of a fictional Digger colony at Page Common near London.
* [[Caryl Churchill]]'s 1976 play ''[[Light Shining in Buckinghamshire]]'', named after the Digger pamphlet and set in the [[English Civil War]], charts the rise and fall of the Diggers and other social ideas from the 1640s.<!--
no source, no indication of notability: * Jonathon Kemp's 2010 play ''The Digger's Daughter'' tells the tale of the Diggers and quotes much of Winstanley's teaching directly.-->
* [[Charlie Kaufman]]'s 2020 novel ''[[Antkind]]'' references Winstanley and the Diggers. A character called "Digger" is given a copy of ''The True Levellers Standard Advanced'' in order to motivate her to revolt against an oppressive government.