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The Diggers were a radical community-action group of activists and street theatre actors operating from 1966 to 1968, based in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco.
Oct 3, 2023 · For the first “Feed,” two recently unemployed Diggers, Emmett Grogan and Billy Murcott, procured donations of vegetables and meat from the San Francisco Produce Market.
The San Francisco Diggers combined street theater, anarcho direct action, and art happenings in their social agenda. Their most famous activities revolved around Free Food (every day in the Panhandle), and the Free Store (where everything was free for the taking).
History of the San Francisco Diggers (1966-1968 and beyond) with Archive of scanned and rare Sixties Ephemera including Digger and Free City Collective broadsides and manifestos.
The Diggers were one of the legendary groups in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, one of the world-wide epicenters of the Sixties Counterculture which fundamentally changed American and world culture.
Longtime Diggers archivist/historian Eric Noble has posted an edited transcript of a previously unpublished/unseen interview with Arthur Lisch, conducted in 1998 by filmmakers Alice Gaillard and Céline Deransart for their documentary film Les Diggers de San Francisco, released that same year.
Brief History. A Brief History of the San Francisco Diggers. (and the movement they spawned) Index to this section: Epigraph: Radical Social Movements, Roots and Traces. SF Mime Troupe: Praxis of Change. Artists Liberation Front: Celebration as Community. The Digger Papers: Counterpoint to Ecstasy. Hunter's Point Uprising: Community Under Siege.
