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2014 Global Marijuana March
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Yippie Museum and Cafe at 9 Bleecker St, New York City. Facebook: Yippie Museum-9 Bleecker Street.

Partial chronology
Return to top. Dana Beal was the main organizer of the Global Marijuana March until he was incarcerated again in February 2012. He is also a world-renowned activist concerning iboga and ibogaine and its use in alleviating the devastating effects of heroin withdrawal, and the severe withdrawal symptoms when stopping use of other hard drugs such as methamphetamine. See Dana Beal.
 * 2014, Feb. 12. Dana Beal is released on parole..
 * 2013, Aug. 9. Moved to work release center in Omaha, Nebraska.
 * 2013, June 7. Surgery for a completely blocked carotid artery.
 * 2013, May 20. Letter from Ron Kuby to Nebraska Parole Board re: Irvin Dana Beal.
 * 2013, May 4. YouTube: Dana Beal from Prison at the NYC Cannabis Rally. Video of the crowd at the New York City Cannabis Parade while Dana Beal spoke to them from prison.
 * 2013, April 25. Letter from Dana.
 * 2013, March 6. Moved from Wisconsin back to Nebraska.
 * 2013, Feb. 17. Dana's letter "Time to Re-assess", written previously. It is also in French.
 * 2013, Feb. 14. Surgery to repair his double hernia.
 * 2013, Jan. 9. Dana turned 66 in prison in Wisconsin.
 * 2012, Dec. 26. Moved from Nebraska back to Fox Lake Correctional Institution in Wisconsin.
 * 2012, Dec. 10. Nebraska sentencing.
 * 2012, Aug. 27. Bench trial in Nebraska. Found guilty Sep. 4.
 * 2012, Feb. 24. Another heart attack. Stent placed in coronary artery.
 * 2012, Feb. 15. Back in prison in Wisconsin.
 * 2011, Dec. 29. Wisconsin resentencing hearing.
 * 2011, Sept. 27. Heart attack, induced coma for 6 days, double-bypass open heart surgery. Released temporarily from his Wisconsin prison sentence..
 * 2011. Sept. 22. Sentenced in Wisconsin.
 * 2011. Jan. 6. Arrested and jailed in Wisconsin..

His Nebraska sentencing was on Monday, December 10, 2012: Nebraska burns Beal; Gives pot activist 4 to 6 in the joint. By Paul DeRienzo, The Villager. See also: Yippie activist sentenced, gets prison time for hauling pot. By Paul Hammel, Omaha World-Herald. See also: Marijuana advocate jailed, on KETV Omaha. His prosecutor was fined in August 2012 for around $5000 worth of false personal expense reimbursement claims. See this Facebook group for more info: Free Dana Beal, Free Ourselves. Dana's Facebook page is here, though he can't update it himself while he is in jail. Others are updating it.

     

Health hazards in Nebraska jails
Return to top. The Nebraska jail system may have been trying to kill Dana Beal. December 2, 2012 letter from Dana Beal: "I was lying on my back and coughed just once, and got the most excruciating pain from my right hernia. Since previously I had to move around to get stabbing pain, this means my large intestine is really trying to burst through my abdominal wall." November 21, 2012 letter: "After walking 'round the yard for 45 minutes, I came in, lay down on my bed, coughed just once -- and got the worst, most excruciating stab of pain that you can imagine in my right hernial sac." Nov. 18, 2012 letter: "The growth on my back is getting bigger, but she won't order a biopsy, and there will be no hernia operations." One week after returning to prison this past February 2012, he had another heart attack and a stent had to be placed. He has other serious medical issues, such as an acutely painful double hernia described above, which are not being addressed in prison. In addition, he is taking a blood thinner, which is not being properly monitored. Therefore, theoretically, the hernia could rupture and Dana could bleed out and die before help arrives.

More news
On Monday, October 29, 2012 Dana was moved to a Lincoln, Nebraska facility for a health assessment. Dana was at the Wahoo, Nebraska jail before that. Jailhouse Letter: Dear Judge, ‘The Staff Actually Discontinued My Fish Oil’. By Corey Kilgannon. August 17, 2012. New York Times. It took 2 weeks, but Dana got the fish oil. See comment at the end of this article by The Villager from August 30, 2012: Beal pleads guilty, but med defense not up in smoke. By Paul DeRienzo.

Dana Beal had a bench trial in Saunders County, Nebraska on August 27, 2012, and was found guilty September 4. See media articles:    , and Dana's reply. On September 27, 2011 Dana suffered a heart attack which resulted in double-bypass open heart surgery. He survived and was released temporarily from his Wisconsin prison sentence mentioned farther down. See: Activist Legend Avoids Marijuana Sentence -- With Heart Attack. On December 29, 2011 his resentencing hearing gave him 11 months in prison. That sentence started in February 2012. See this and this. On September 20, 2011 Dana Beal was sentenced to 2 and a half years in prison in Wisconsin. He was credited with 267 days already served for the time he was in jail. His original sentence also included parole for 2 and a half years after he got out of prison. See this September 22, 2011 article by The Dodgeville Chronicle. See also Paul DeRienzo's reply and Dana's reply to Dana Beal a folk hero? in The Villager, December 1, 2011.

Some event photos and posters
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Dana Beal photo albums on Facebook:  . For more photos see this Google image search.

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1979
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Aron (Pieman) Kay on the left, and Dana Beal on the right. Rock Against Racism event, Central Park Bandshell, in New York City. Saturday, May 5, 1979. Aron's t-shirt says "Have Pie, Will Travel". .



1978
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Facebook photo caption:

"this pic was taken by wayne angel at the 1978 national marijuana day smoke-in at nyc's central park — with Stephen DeAngelo, AJ Weberman, Dana Beal and Aron Kay." (left to right in the photo).

1977
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Patti Smith in Mar-Apr 1977 edition of The Yipster Times.

There are some Yipster Times and other periodicals, archived here:
 * Luminist Periodical Archives

More 1970s
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1971 Madison Wisconsin
Return to top. The first Great Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival: Sept. 25, 1971.. October 1, 2010 article by Gary Stork. "At that time, Dana was in jail in Madison charged with several counts of sales to a narc and also charged with possession with intent. In the end, he copped a plea and served about a year in the Dane County jail. William Kunstler, legendary lawyer for radicals, was willing to serve as his defense lawyer but the case didn't ever come to trial. I sure didn't think Dana Beal would still be facing time in prison 40 years after 1971."



1967 New York City
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 * A History of Tompkins Square Park. Link goes directly to section titled: The 1960's and 'The East Village'. See East Village, Manhattan.
 * Free Weed: Episode 77. Mar 13, 2015. "This week's interview is with longtime marijuana activist and Yippie founder Dana Beal". It starts at 24 minutes 35 seconds into this episode. Direct link to SoundCloud audio.

From an old page (yippiemuseum.org/whatsup.html) is this quote (emphasis added):
 * "The first Smoke In was held in February 1967 in upstate New York by Michael Aldridge but it did not receive much press attention. In June 1967 Dana Beal and the New York Provos held the second smoke-in in Tompkins Square Park [in New York City]. Due to several arrests this demonstration received considerable press. Beal went underground in January 1968 but the Smoke Ins continued just as they do today as evidenced by the above photo of 10,000 Smoke Inners in Boulder on April 20, 2008."

"Hippies Protest In NYC". Video of August 23, 1967 rally. "Carrying guitars and beating drums, hippies and supporters of Yippie activist Irvin Dana Beal gather in New York City to protest his arrest for selling drugs and to raise money for his bail." There is no audio. QuickTime may need to be installed to play the embedded video, or download the video via the link there, and play it on your media player.

YouTube videos with this videoclip:
 * "Antigone," a documentary in progress, Includes Wisconsin Sentencing. It is at the beginning.
 * "Antigone," a documentary in progress, Includes Wisconsin Sentencing. Newer version. It is at the beginning.
 * Hippies protest Dana Beal's arrest in NYC 1967. Video with timecode and more of the rally. "When Dana got popped for acid in 1967 the whole summer of love community came down to the federal courthouse and carried him on their shoulders when he got out on the community bail fund."



Videos
Return to top. There are many videos with Dana Beal in them. Google search for videos: Dana Beal. YouTube search for Dana Beal.


 * "Antigone," a documentary in progress. YouTube link. This version includes some of the Wisconsin sentencing. This video shows much of Dana's work, in order to put his current situation in context. Video changes to full-screen, high-definition quality around 1 minute 10 seconds in. That is Dana being held up by others in the 1967 rally videoclip shown at the beginning.
 * Dana Beal's entire sentencing testimony. September 20, 2011. 36 Minutes: YouTube link.

The Ibogaine Story
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The Ibogaine Story: Report on the Staten Island Project. 1997 book by Paul De Rienzo, Dana Beal, and Project Members. Publisher: Autonomedia. ISBN 978-1-57027-029-1.

Chapter 4 is titled "Dana Beal" and is a biography of him. Text online here, here, and here.


 * On Mindvox. Full text of book online.
 * On Drugs Forum. Full text of book online.
 * On Amazon. Can search text.
 * On Google Books. Can search text.

More info and links
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 * Wikipedia: Dana Beal.
 * Dana Beal - New York. Articles in Village Voice.
 * Irvin Dana Beal. American Folk Hero.
 * The New Face of Yippie. 9 Bleecker, Hip, Hopping and Happening. By Preston Peet. March 27, 2012. HighTimes.com.
 * The Space at 9 Bleecker | The Yippie!
 * A Yippie on Familiar Turf, Both in New York and in Jail. January 20, 2012. By Corey Kilgannon. New York Times.
 * Facebook: Sentencing Hearing for Dana Beal. September 20, 2011 in Wisconsin.
 * Facebook: Aron Kay. Aron has info on Dana Beal when Dana is in jail or prison.
 * Pot activist still in the joint: ‘It was all medical marijuana’. By Lincoln Anderson. The Villager. March 3 - 9, 2011 issue.
 * Help Beal make bail. Scoopy's Notebook. The Villager. June 16 - 22, 2011 issue.
 * Drug War POW: Dana Beal | Cannabis Culture Magazine. May 5, 2011 article. An interview with (Irvin) Dana Beal by Michal Rehak of Legalizace Magazine, Czech Republic. Also here and here.
 * See GlobalCannabisMarch.com and the Incarcerated page. It has info on how to help Dana Beal.


 * Dana Beal Update: New York Marijuana-Reform Activist Still in Wisconsin Jail. CelebStoner.com, February 13, 2011. See January 10 article also.
 * Dana Beal busted again. The Villager. January 13 - 19, 2011 issue.
 * Counter-culture 'yippie' with Madison ties in jail on pot charges in Iowa County. By Todd Finkelmeyer. The Capital Times, Jan. 14, 2011.
 * Read the news ... oh, boy. Detroit Metro Times. By John Sinclair. Feb 2, 2011. John Sinclair discusses Dana Beal in the last part of the article.
 * Facebook: Free Dana Beal; Release Ibogaine in the Midwest.
 * "Omahan: Drug breaks meth's grip." 2. By Paul Hammel. July 4, 2010. Omaha World-Herald.
 * Cyprus IndyMedia: Dana Beal is out of Jail - Freedom for all Friends of Cannabis!. Nov. 8, 2009.
 * DRCnet article on Dana Beal's 2009 arrest in Nebraska. Many links. On September 30, 2009 Dana Beal was arrested in Ashland, Nebraska which is 40 miles away from Omaha, Nebraska.
 * Dana-AID 2009.

More videos
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Many videos. Google search for videos: Dana Beal. YouTube search for Dana Beal.

Cartoon about our dynamic duo, Dana Beal and Aron "pieman" Kay. See pieman.org. Video was created in 2003 (see notice at end of video). The music is by Benedict Arnold & The Traitors. The song "Death penalty for pot" was written in 1981, and recorded around 2002 according to the info on the Youtube page.

When Dana needs help
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Facebook:
 * Free Dana Beal, Free Ourselves. Info on how to help Dana Beal.
 * Dana Beal.
 * Yippie Museum-9 Bleecker Street.

An email below kept for historical purposes.

Cannabis is safer
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 * See: Cannabis is safer.

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