A few years ago I was siting in the dining hall at Jackson's Mill (nation's first state 4-H camp) describing a few of my political adventures in the 60's and 70's. One of the listeners said, "you're like Forest Gump...you were everywhere in the 60's!" So just for purposes of listing, (not intending to drop names, but just list the people I met and places I was at:
1. Chicago Democratic Convention Demonstration (mentioned anonymously as urban guerilla in Chicago Tribune)
2. Woodstock (produced and printed poliltical newspaper decrying corporate cooptation of rock & roll.
3. Filmore East
4. Hitchhiked across country twice
5.Levitation of the Pentagon
6. 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Justice (Martin Luther King I have a dream speech)
7. 1965 March on Washington where SDS' Carl Ogeslby identified imperialism as the enemy.
8.Many concerts at Filmore East
9. Madison Wisconsin the summer Army Math Research Center blown up with unfortunate death....I was briefly held by FBI and questioned.
10. Arrested in Philadelphia 1967 demonstration by black students in Philadelphia over treatment of blacks in Phila. schools. (Tough cop Frank Rizzo set the police loose on the demonstrators.)
11. Arrested at April 1969 Mobilization for Peace Rally in Central Park
12. Took Muddy Waters and his band for Mammer Jammers in Philadelphia 1968
13. As a goof, attended Young Americans for Freedom Rally in Madison Square Garden, 1964. They were mostly responsible for nomination of Barry Goldwater for Pres.
14. Took over NYU printing presses during student strike.
15. Present on day after riots on streets in lower east side....holiday atmosphere of folks trading "liberated" goods.
16. Peace Press member in Los Angeles, 1971-4
17. Worked on Pentagon Papers defense producing weekly newspaper with Daniel Elsberg andTony Russo.
18. Worked on Elaine Brown (Black Panther Party) electoral campaigns in Oakland CA
People:
Abbie Hoffman
Jane Fonda
Dorothy Healey
Mario Savio
Muddy Waters
Otis Spann
Mike Bloomfield
Marge Piercy
Michael Harrington
Cornel West
Barbara Ehrenreich
I'll add to this as I remember more.
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