(np) Berkeley to Boston
Michael Bailey
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Sat Oct 3 22:35:31 CDT 2009
based on Robin's recommendation, er, mention, of this work a few months back
I finally scored a copy. It's a caper book, and not bad. Pretty
lightweight, the usual
jarring references to "chicks", (there must have been womyn back then
who didn't mind,
is all I can imagine) but I like this quote:
"...our excuse for not digging Ross's trip was that we figured that any
changes that were really going to happen were going to happen in
people's heads. We figured that once you started killing, you admitted
that you were at a loss for other solutions, and that your own way
was so poverty-stricken in the knowledge department that all you could do
with people who didn't see the light was liquidate them. And we figured
that was nowhere. So we blew our dope and stayed in our heads; maybe
that was nowhere, but that was our problem."
--
"Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the
revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world
declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism." -
Martin Luther King
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