Activism
We’re Losing the Drug War Because Prohibition Never Works
We’re Losing the Drug War Because Prohibition Never Works By Hodding Carter III. There is clearly no point in beating a dead horse, whether you are a politician or a columnist, but sometimes you have to do it just the same, if only for the record. So, for the record, here’s another attempt to argue […] Continue reading
Student Dress Codes? (1969)
Unrest in the Southwest Source: Plain Brown Watermelon, Bellaire High School Newspaper, Oct. 1969, Vol 1, #1 Things are bubbling out there in the southwest area high schools. Here’s a brief, and admittedly incomplete rundown on a few incidents which occurred during he last two weeks. At Bellaire a student council sponsored referendum was presented […] Continue reading
School is Bad for Children (1969)
SCHOOL IS BAD FOR CHILDREN (1969) BY JOHN HOLT Almost every child, on the first day he sets foot in a school building, is smarter, more curious, less afraid of what he doesn’t know, better at finding and figuring things out, more confident, resourceful, persistent and independent than he will ever be again in his […] Continue reading
Free John Sinclair! (1970)
Free John Sinclair A letter from prison by John Sinclair OK, onward: FREE SINCLAIR is a good idea, yes, I can really relate to that one. But the wider issue of marijuana laws as political tools is the real thing to work on, along with the so-called obscenity busts and all other busts that are […] Continue reading
The Weathermen (1969)
I prefer the philanthropy of Captain John Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me….I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which both these things would be by me unavoidable. We preserve the so-called peace of our community by deeds of petty violence […] Continue reading
Negro ‘Paranoia’ (1968)
NEGRO ‘PARANOIA’ (1968) White Racism Said to Push Blacks to the Brink By JOHN LEO White racism forces the American Negro to lead a life of cultural paranoia and often pushes him over the brink into true paranoid schizophrenia, a black psychiatrist said here yesterday. Paranoia, a withdrawal from reality with delusions of persecution, is […] Continue reading
Something Just Happened to the Black People of the United States (1968)
Something Just Happened to the Black People of the United States WE ARE NO LONGER WHAT WE WERE! Negotiation, which according to Rev. Cleage should amount to a real ‘transfer of power’, was not possible before the riots: one does not negotiate with slaves. Until July, the whites of Detroit, deep inside themselves, considered the […] Continue reading
Politics of Vandalism (1968)
Politics of Vandalism (1968) by Stanley Cohen Deviant behavior is not a static category: an act must be so labeled by others. This means that the sociologist should be on guard when society (or powerful groups in society) designates certain behavior problematic or deviant. In regard to some forms of mental illness, for example, R. […] Continue reading
Dr. King Planning Protests To ‘Dislocate’ Large Cities (1967)
Dr. King Planning Protests To ‘Dislocate’ Large Cities (1967) Massive but Nonviolent Campaign Is Sought, Before Congress Adjourns, to Get Federal Aid for Negroes By GENE ROBERTS Special to The New York Times ATLANTA, Aug. 15 – The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said today that he planned to dislocate Northern cities with massive […] Continue reading
Do we Love the Vietnamese More than our Black Brothers? (1967)
Do we Love the Vietnamese More than our Black Brothers?By Carol Wallace On July 18th I sat-in at Newark City Hall, middle of the floor; dialogued gently with all comers including rifle-toting cops; got off pretty nicely to a bloodlined paddy wagon; was released at the police station and offered bus fare to go home […] Continue reading