his friends looked for another opportunity to gather the tribe. Emmett Grogan (who worked with the anarchist collective, the Diggers and at The Free Store -he trip without a ticket, providing food and services to runaways and other needy citizens on New York Lower East Side) suggested the next get together should put all that positive energy towards a good purpose, ike cleaning up the junk on the Lower East Side. That was all the encouragement Fass and Paul Krassner needed.
They announced plans for a Sweep In which would be held on April 8, 1967 and invited the audience to join them in cleaning up Krassner garbage-strewn block; 7th Street between Avenue D and 3rd Avenue. Word of the upcoming spring-cleaning eventually reached New York Sanitation Department. Apparently embarrassed by the idea of dirty hippies doing their work for them, city trucks were dispatched in the