I was in CORE ,SDS, Progressive Labor Party, and later, the National Writers Union. Of all those organizations, SDS was the most free-wheeling, democratic, and BOLD. Our ovuduerall credo waths "Less Talk, More Action." I was and am also a lifetime freelance writer with a pioneering short story collection 'I Looked Over Jordan and Other Stories" one of the stories wa optioned by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis for a show they had on PBS; Ruby did an adaptation of the story Crazy Hattie Enters The Ice Age, about one of the most common experiences in America, an worker's refusal to sign a biased annual work performance evaluation.
I worked in hospitals for seventeen years and was in two of the most liberal unions in the country, SEIU Local 250 in San Francisco and independent ttunion 1199 in New York City.
I was also involved while a student in SDS in the historic San Francisco State College student strike led by our Black Student Union and Third World Liberation front that in a mightly coalition of students, many teachers, and local commnity, won the first Black Studies depatment and an ENTIRE School of Ethnic Stuidies that sparked a tsunami of revolt and victory
One of the most positive movements in recent years has been has been the Black Lives Matters Movements which brought thousands of people out into the streets to demonsrate, and even pushed on through to some of the murdering police convicted.
I guess Im also tired of seeing a lot of straight white men from Michale Ansara to Todd Gitlin and Mike Albert who from South End Press to Z MAGAZINE TO PODCASTS give us from their weary rhetoric as leaders as to what's going on in the country. So they think changes in technology will change how movements are organized. Wow. What insight.
When areyou going to feature books by some of the Black Lives Movement leaders, the Standing Rock struggle that the media right left and underwrote /ignored and certainly didnt do an indepth intervews with the new young leaders. I have yet to see a single article or interview with Congressperson Ocasio about her speaking tour with Bernie Saunders and what issues and concerns the redstate thousands asked t
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I was in CORE ,SDS, Progressive Labor Party, and later, the National Writers Union. Of all those organizations, SDS was the most free-wheeling, democratic, and BOLD. Our ovuduerall credo waths "Less Talk, More Action." I was and am also a lifetime freelance writer with a pioneering short story collection 'I Looked Over Jordan and Other Stories" one of the stories wa optioned by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis for a show they had on PBS; Ruby did an adaptation of the story Crazy Hattie Enters The Ice Age, about one of the most common experiences in America, an worker's refusal to sign a biased annual work performance evaluation.
I worked in hospitals for seventeen years and was in two of the most liberal unions in the country, SEIU Local 250 in San Francisco and independent ttunion 1199 in New York City.
I was also involved while a student in SDS in the historic San Francisco State College student strike led by our Black Student Union and Third World Liberation front that in a mightly coalition of students, many teachers, and local commnity, won the first Black Studies depatment and an ENTIRE School of Ethnic Stuidies that sparked a tsunami of revolt and victory
One of the most positive movements in recent years has been has been the Black Lives Matters Movements which brought thousands of people out into the streets to demonsrate, and even pushed on through to some of the murdering police convicted.
I guess Im also tired of seeing a lot of straight white men from Michale Ansara to Todd Gitlin and Mike Albert who from South End Press to Z MAGAZINE TO PODCASTS give us from their weary rhetoric as leaders as to what's going on in the country. So they think changes in technology will change how movements are organized. Wow. What insight.
When areyou going to feature books by some of the Black Lives Movement leaders, the Standing Rock struggle that the media right left and underwrote /ignored and certainly didnt do an indepth intervews with the new young leaders. I have yet to see a single article or interview with Congressperson Ocasio about her speaking tour with Bernie Saunders and what issues and concerns the redstate thousands asked t