Commune

In the early 1970s actor Peter Coyote and a group of young artists and activists moved to a remote Californian wilderness to create a new world, armed only with the slogan "Free Land for Free People." Fueled by contributions from the Doors, the Monkees, Frank Zappa and others, they bought an abandoned goldmine for $22, 000 and named it Black Bear Ranch. Utopian communities have always been a part of the United States, but in the 60's and 70's their audacious goal was to reshape the world with free love and common property-- creating a revolutionary movement that would spread to the rest of society. But utopia is different for each person, and these experiments often brought strife, jealousy and sometimes even endangered lives. (Verleiher-Text)