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Some Pynchon readers may enjoy this, especially
_Vineland_ fans:


We take a look at one American family's tradition of
resistance in a new book titled the Radical Line: From
the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One
Family's Century of Conscience written by Thai Jones,
son of Jeff Jones, a former member of the Weather
Underground movement. [includes rush transcript] Today
an unusual family story: From the Labor Movement to
the Weather Underground, we take a look at one
American family's tradition of resistance in a new
book titled the "Radical Line." The author, Thai Jones
used multiple aliases before he reached the age of
four. In 1981, heavily armed agents of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and New York Police Department
swept into his family's New York apartment and
arrested his parents, fugitive leaders of the Weather
Underground movement. First let's go back some 35
years to the days of the Vietnam War. [...] 

The next thing I knew, there was banging on the door.
About 20 fully armored swat, F.B.I. And police
officers with M-16's and shotguns stormed you this the
house. They took Jeff out into the hallway and made
him crawl down the hallway. What I remember is that
there was a moment in all this sort of craziness when
people had forgotten about me and I went down to my
little bedroom at the end of the hall and I was sort
of looking through my belongings to see if I could
find some way to help out. And I just had this feeling
of, you know, I had like a cowboy hat, I had some
stuffed animals, I had a little pair of child's safety
scissors, so I just remember feeling helpless and I
went back out and just stood with Jeff in the hallway.
And I had no idea what was happening. I had no idea
that our family was different. I mean I knew that we
had had different names but I had never questioned
that. And so this book is sort of about exploring how
that came about. [...]


... read it all (listen to it, too): <http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/03/1454204>

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