i've been uncirculated for several decades since the sixties and seventies and am only now re-surfacing to provide fact, anecdote and verifiable history on a number of Wikisubjects, including myself. These areas include the Weathermen/WeatherUnderground; list of WUO members updates; the CoIntelPro programs during the Nixon era; the politically repressive use of special federal grand juries during the 60's/70's/80's; specific revolutionary underground actions by WUO and regional affinity groups (including my own); trashing; cultural subversion through music, literature, drugs and religion.
Other significant areas will include:
-- The Berkeley Tribe (underground newspaper)
-- Minimanual of the Urban Guerilla
-- Isla Vista Community Council (California)
-- Isla Vista Municipal Advisory Council
-- Municial Advisory Councils (State of California)
-- Federal anti-poverty agencies
-- Underground Press Syndicate
-- The Leviathan (US socialist periodical)
-- The Red Star Collective (Berkeley)
-- Elephant's Memory in NYC (J.Lennon backup band)
-- Talking Heads/DByrne (LifeDuringWartime)
-- Brotherhood of Eternal Love
-- CBS60Minutes and WUO segment Nov1977 w/Dan Rather
-- TenderloinHealth organization
-- State Residential Conservation Services Advisory Commission (California)
-- Toward Utility Rate Normalization organization
-- Legal LSD (pre-1967) in California
-- Augustus Stanley Oswald
-- Altamont
-- Venceremos Brigades to Cuba 1968-1969
-- People's Park
-- Fred Hampton and Mark Clark/Illinois BPP
-- Johnathon Jackson funeral
-- Merritt College 1967-1969 (liberation of college bookstore/relocation of campus from
lowlands to foothills and extensive sabotage activities/BPP and SDS)
-- who was weathervane/who was billy berkeley
-- where did the Nevada voter ballot option "none of the above" originate? (State of Nevada)
-- the 1st federal community credit union in the United States (Isla Vista)(California) (US)
-- Bloods and Crips and the Fruit of Islam (Compton/Inglewood/South Central)
-- The Last Days of Huey Newton and Eldridge Cleaver
-- Betty Shakur's bail money in NYC (Black Panther 21)
-- Origin of Boston Women's Center (feminism/women's liberation)
-- Origin of Isla Vista Legal Defense Center (California)
-- "How Does It Feel to be Inside an Explosion" (WUO poetry)
-- FOIA request to FBI and DIA and USSS on Matthew Landy Steen
-- Bernadette Devlin/Irish Republican Army/INLA
-- FLQ
-- Watergate defendants at Lompoc federal penitentiary
-- Mutiny on USS Columbia Eagle and Alvin Glatowski
-- Hunter S. Thompson
-- World premiere of Woodstock 1970 Hollywood
-- World premiere of Oh!/Calcutta in San Francisco
-- Interviewing Jean Luc-Goddard, Duane Allman and others
And other varied and sundried recollections that I should never have remembered because I was there. And
like many before and ever after I am 63 and must be a scribe to history before revision and senility set in.
Like Bill said, we did not do enough in the 60's. So it is now. Fight the Power and Peace Out.Mlsteenwx13 (talk) 04:19, 4 March 2012 (UTC)