Bird Community & Countercultures
The Bird is often remembered as a hippie newspaper. Although the paper covered countercultural movements and lifestyles, most of the people who contributed to and worked on the paper did not self-identify as hippies; rather, they saw themselves as engaged political activists. Yet in its eight years of publication, a diverse group of approximately five hundred people contributed to the paper through work in layout, writing, editing, art, sales, advertising, and circulation. The bond that tied these people together was a passion to change the world and themselves for the better.
