tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502187932910780823.post7563197203751104639..comments2024-03-06T12:16:49.012-05:00Comments on Fire on the Mountain: May '70: 7. How Can You Run When You Know?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502187932910780823.post-65705200550043576852017-05-09T10:42:43.312-04:002017-05-09T10:42:43.312-04:00I was the organizer from District 65 for the cleri...I was the organizer from District 65 for the clerical/administrative workers at NYU who were on strike for union recognition at NYU during April/May 1970. When students and faculty organized departmental strike committees after Kent State, our workers asked their departments how they could participate. They were told to go back to their desks and type. It was a shameful sidelight of that period.Montehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13174266882593664148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502187932910780823.post-27979021203182414702010-05-07T08:32:44.827-04:002010-05-07T08:32:44.827-04:00For the best eye witness accounts of the Kent Stat...For the best eye witness accounts of the Kent State shootings by various Kent students and national guardsmen who shot students, check out the Emmy Award winning documentary, "Kent State, The Day the War Cam Home." It was just released on DVD for the 40th anniversary. In its review of the program, The Hollywood Reporter stated, "This extraordinary hour long doc is so good, so well constructed, that it can't help but leave viewers feeling as if they themselves were on the bloody scene of the Kent State carnage..." for more go to kentstatedvd.commark morihttp://www.kentstatedvd.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502187932910780823.post-63968982384605228272010-05-05T20:48:27.397-04:002010-05-05T20:48:27.397-04:00I see your point, that it certainly could have gon...I see your point, that it certainly could have gone the other way, but to me it certainly galvanized the "movement" and upped the level of activity and militancy.<br /><br />I see May '70 as a watershed, and an qualitative increase in what remained for many years the main thing in my life, and that of many others-- the "hard core" of activists.<br /><br />On the other hand, I'm embarrassed to hear you defend the Beach Boys...or was that snark?<br /><br />JKAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com