University of Virginia Library

Rubin To Participate
In Freedom Day Festival

Prior to speaking with attorney
William Kunstler at University Hall on the
night of May 6, Yippie Jerry Rubin will
appear at "Freedom Day" festival to be
held earlier that day.

A defendant in the Chicago Conspiracy
Trial, Mr. Rubin will be visiting at
the University at the invitation of the
Festival of Life Peace Foundation, a
non-profit organization whose aim is to "instill
peace throughout the country." Mr. Kunstler's
speech that night is sponsored by the Virginia
Progressive Party and the American Liberties
Union of Central Virginia. Mr. Kunstler will
speak at 8, and Mr. Rubin at 9 p.m.

The "Freedom Day" festival will be
sponsored by the Youth International Party
(Yippies), and will be held on either Bonnycastle
Dell or Lambert Field. According to
Paul Larsen, a spokesman for the Yippies, free
food will be provided and rock bands will
perform all day. Mr. Rubin will also autograph
his new book, "Do It," which will be sold at
the festival.

In addition, attempts are being made to have
free bus tours of Monticello and a local showing
of "Woodstock," a documentary of the famed
rock festival, dung the time of the "Freedom
Day" celebration.

Mr. Rubin's exploits in the Berkeley Free
Speech Movement in 1964 and at the House
Un-American Activities Committee have made
him a legendary figure among the Yippies. He is
currently appealing a contempt charge resulting
from the conspiracy Trial in Chicago. Mr.
Kunstler, who first received national fame as
the lawyer for civil rights groups and later for
the Chicago Eight and various other radical
defendants, is also appealing his contempt
charge.

Both speakers are expected to discuss the
trial of Black Panthers in New Haven and the
outcome of their appeals, scheduled to come to
court on May 4.