Human Be-In

The Human Be-In continued his emphasis on the ideas of the hippie movement of the 1960s: individualism, cultural and political decentralization, living in communities, environmental awareness and the expansion of consciousness.

The name Human Be-In is from the Beat Generation artist and co-founder of the San Francisco Oracle Michael Bowen; combined by chance old name of humanistic values ​​with the large number of sit-ins (English: sit -in), which changed the practices of colleges and universities and thus the last vestiges of entrenched racial segregation brought to the disappearance.

About the number of visitors exist today conflicting information, but it is expected of 20,000 to 30,000 people. Nevertheless, the effect of the Human Be-In was great: The hippie movement that was present at the Human Be-In, the people, to ask authorities in regard to civil rights, women's rights and consumer rights in question encouraged. In addition, own alternative media were created and broke new ground in music and art; technologically eventually this led in the 1990s to the Digital Be -Ins.