Steal this Wiki

A long time ago, my Dad gave me his raggedy old copy of Abbie Hoffman's iconic book, Steal This Book, which was the yippie-activist's guide to things like rolling joints, making pipe bombs, and getting a free, live buffalo from the U.S. Department of Interior, among other things.

As a teenager, I wore that book out even further until the spine was cracked so much that pages began to randomly fall out. It finally met its doom a few years back when, after several apartment moves, the last bunch of pages came unglued and blew away in the wind.

I used it for purely for research purposes of course, and not too long after it was gone, I was already wishing I had another copy. Unfortunately mint copies of the book were going for as much as $60 on eBay (at the time; the price seems to have drastically reduced these days), and I was a poor college student.

But now there's something even better: Steal this Wiki. An updated, Wiki-version of the book! It's still pretty bare on information, but with your help, it can be the Steal This Book of today.

It even has my favorite section from the 70s version: Free Cities, which will (eventually) list major cities and how to live and/or travel free in them. Abbie Hoffman: a true pioneer in budget travel.

I'm still trying to figure out where to put that buffalo...

[Via Boing Boing]

Filed under: Activism, Budget Travel