Zippie was briefly the name of the breakaway

Yippie The Youth International Party (YIP), whose members were commonly called Yippies, was an American youth-oriented radical and countercultural revolutionary offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the late 1960s. It was founded on ...

faction that demonstrated at the 1972

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and

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s in Miami Beach, Florida. The origin of the word is an evolution of the term Yippie, which was coined by the

Youth International Party The Youth International Party (YIP), whose members were commonly called Yippies, was an American youth-oriented radical and countercultural revolutionary offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the late 1960s. It was founded o ...

in the 1960s. After these events, "the Zippies evolved back into Yippies", but the word ''Zippie'' remained, used by record labels, rock bands, and assorted others. In subsequent years, ''zippie'' has arisen in reference to 1990s technopeople, in contradiction to

yuppie Yuppie, short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly-mobile professional", is a term coined in the early 1980s for a young professional person working in a city. The term is first attested in 1980, when it was used as a fairly neu ...

s. In the 1990s,

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and others created a unique subculture that combined the "1990s techno hemisphere with the 1960s earth person". Zippies were thus advocates of

PLUR Peace Love Unity Respect, commonly shortened to PLUR, is a set of principles that is associated with rave culture, originating in the United States. It has been commonly used since the early 1990s when it became commonplace in nightclub and rave fl ...

(Peace Love Unity Respect), which originated on the alt.raves and alt.culture.zippies usenet groups.

1972

(YIP) was an acronym for "''Youth International Party''"; similarly, Zippie (ZIP) was an acronym for "''

Zeitgeist In 18th- and 19th-century German philosophy, a ''Zeitgeist'' () ("spirit of the age") is an invisible agent, force or Daemon dominating the characteristics of a given epoch in world history. Now, the term is usually associated with Georg W. ...

International Party''"—a term first coined by Tom Forcade. This was the name given to the radical breakaway Yippie faction that demonstrated at the 1972

and

s in Miami Beach. Zippies reached international prominence during the American 1972 Democratic National Convention and 1972 Republican National Convention, held in Miami Beach, Florida, USA, when the word was silk-screened on t-shirts and worn by counter-culture activists and groups working to end US involvement in the

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1994

In May 1994 ''

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'' magazine published an article titled "Here Come the Zippies!". The cover of the magazine featured a kaleidoscopic image of a smiling young man with wild hair, a funny hat, and mechanical eyeglasses. Written by Jules Marshall, the article announced an organized cultural response to

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in the

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There's a new and rapidly spreading cultural virus ripping through the British Isles. The symptoms of those infected include attacks of optimism, strong feelings of community, and lowered stress levels. Will their gathering in August at the Grand Canyon be the
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of the '90s?

The article describes zippies, according to 50-year-old

, as "Zen-Inspired Pronoia Professional", or "hippies with zip." The UK media tried to pin various labels on the Y Generation such as "cyber-crusties", " techno-hippies", and "post-ravers."

espoused a philosophy known as pronoia and embarked on an expedition to the

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. This tour was dubbed the Zippy Pronoia Tour to US. Other uses of the term are "Zen Inspired Peace Professional." These zippies were a

New Age New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s. Its highly eclectic and unsystematic structure makes a precise definition difficult. Although many scholars consi ...

kind of hippie who embraced Chaos Theory, Blakean revolt, modern mysteries such as New Age Paganism,

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, rave culture,

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, technology and

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ism in an effort to bring about a better world. A group called "The Zippies" were behind one of the first acts of

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with a collective online action against the 1994 Criminal Justice Bill.

2004

In his book ''

The World Is Flat ''The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century'' is a book by Thomas L. Friedman that analyzes globalization, primarily in the early 21st century. The title is a metaphor for viewing the world as a level playing field in t ...

'', Thomas L. Friedman describe zippies as a "huge cohort of Indian youth who are first to come of the age since India shifted away from socialism and dived headfirst into global trade and information revolution by turning itself into world's service center". The original source of the 2004 term "Zippies" comes from an Indian English-language weekly magazine called ''

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'' in an article called ''Age Of The Zippie''.

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* Friedman, Thomas,
Meet the Zippies
, ''

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'' (Op-Ed), February 22, 2004
Yippies vs. Zippies: New Rubin book reveals ’70s counterculture feud
( ''The Villager'' article by Mary Reinholz, 25 February 2018) Counterculture Hippie movement Youth culture in the United States 1960s neologisms Yippies

1972

1994

2004

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