John Penley Is An Anarcho Yippie is the story of NYC based Lower East Side photojournalist and anarchist agitator, John Penley. It tells the story of how John became an Anarcho Yippie. The story begins in NYC in the late 1970′s and John’s work with the Yippie’s… John first moved to the Lower East Side of New York City in 1985 and became a freelance photojournalist. His photos were featured in all the daily newspapers like the The Daily News, The NY Post, The New York Times and many other publications. John also documented the counter culture scene of the Lower East Side. His archive of some 30,000 images was recently acquired by the Tamimnet Library at NYU. At the end of the summer of 2011 John became homeless. Since then he’s been a part of various Occupy movements in New York, Washington DC, and Asheville NC. In March of 2013 John returned to New York to work on his archive in the library. In true Anarcho Yippie fashion John held a protest against NYU by sleeping on the sidewalk in front of the library that houses his archive to bring attention to NYU’s contribution to the rapid gentrification to the Lower East Side and it’s planned expansion into Greenwich Village. During the day John worked on his archive and at night he slept on the street in front of the library where his archive was housed. The fact that John’s work is housed warm and dry while he sleeps on the street battling cold, rain and even snow was something John wanted to use to talk about the plight of homelessness and NYU’s part in it.