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Emmett Grogan was one of the founders of the New York Diggers, a group that scrounged and provided food and services on the Lower East Side in the 1960s to the influx of hippies and other kids who arrived in the city barefoot and entranced. Abbie Hoffman was another. The Diggers took their name from the 17th Century English radical movement which opposed feudalism, the Church of England and the British Crown. One of their main activities was feeding the masses of homeless youth in New York and San Francisco, much like the present-day Food Not Bombs. Emmett Grogan wrote an autobiography called Ringolevio. He sang back-up, along with Ramblin' Jack Elliot, on Bob Dylan's song Mr. Tambourine Man.
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