Papers I worked on

My son Benny corrected my memory of papers I worked on.....leading me to make this annotated list:

1964:  Haverford Twopenny Press.   This was an alternative press to the Haverford College student newspaper.   We were way to the left on issues concerning the Vietnam War and governance at Haverford.   I believe I was editor for one year.  We printed on a long format and sold the paper for 2c.

1969:   Urban Underground.   This was also the name of our group of left city planners.   This paper published in NYC dealt with urban planning issues.   We opposed upzoning Manhattan (would accelerate moving of poor people out of the borough) and were an early proponent of banning cars from Manhattan.   I recall a somewhat famous photo we staged and used on the front page with a man in a suit with briefcase (business looking guy) descending into a subway stop wearing a gas mask.

1969:  Can't remember the name of the daily paper/newsletter the Wimp collective produced at Woodstock.   We persuaded the organizers to fund our effort to produce a newspaper on site.    The paper attacked the cooptation of rock and roll by big businesses.

1973:   Pentagon Paper.   Some of us working at Peace Press in Los Angeles were hired to produce a monthly newspaper concerning the Pentagon Papers trial of Daniel Elsburg and Tony Russo.  The paper covered trial issues, but also publicized some of the more serious issues revealed in the Pentagon Papers.  (For those of you too young....Elsburg and Russo copied and made public work by think tank Rand Corporation indicating US losing war in Vietnam and unpopular with the people there.)   This duo was accused of treason for these activities, but the cases were dropped because much of the evidence against the two was top secret and the govt didn't want to reveal its sources.)   It was working at this paper that I think I turned around my to that date academic writing style to be more readable.   The paper was unique in that it did not just go to an anti-war constituency, but was distributed through a network of community organizations with a name something like Los Angeles Coalition for Peace and Justice.