tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502187932910780823.post8335019913099439726..comments2024-03-06T12:16:49.012-05:00Comments on Fire on the Mountain: May ‘70: 3. May Day & Bobby SealeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502187932910780823.post-29913885826403902822010-07-09T22:30:57.937-04:002010-07-09T22:30:57.937-04:00Jimmy's right when he says his memory is fadin...Jimmy's right when he says his memory is fading: it's why others can help you along; your mental crutch.<br /><br />My memory is that this May Day was an assembly of activists up and down the east coast. And Nixon's speech was the thing that focused us. Hours after the speech there we all were having meeting after meeting, and i mean MASS meetings to come up with the demands. It wasn't exactly a vote at the rally. We figured it out together. We knew we had to do more and we stepped up, went back and shut the universities down.<br /><br />Good old summing up that week up:<br /><br />United reaction to clear unjust actions can really work<br /><br />Talked it out and focussing all the bs and anger into a few key demands helps.<br /><br />All the hard day to day educational and agitational work lays the basis for much more.<br /><br />Don't be bummed out there isn't that kind of mass movement now. As Jimmy says in installment #1: The Vietnam war SPLIT this country as little else has. And it still is. more importantly there's plenty of mass movement on many issues. <br /><br />The powers to be have learned their lessons, as have we.Johnny Appleseednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502187932910780823.post-54163977276604019072010-05-02T11:34:30.674-04:002010-05-02T11:34:30.674-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Rahim on the Dockshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12153239186575137289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502187932910780823.post-29711361474086474212010-05-02T09:15:53.950-04:002010-05-02T09:15:53.950-04:00I wrote previously (in comment to Jimmy's Eart...I wrote previously (in comment to Jimmy's Earth Day posting) about a local small-town "underground newspaper" that arose from the campus upsurge of May 1970. One of the interesting aspects of The New Livingston News was it's editorial policy. Folks who had been football-hero flag-wavers when they left town the previous fall came home to teach us about the invasion of Cambodia, in total ignorance to the anti-war movement that already existed.<br /><br />These local cartoonesque campus radicals (the *real* B.D.s who Garry Trudeau never quite "grokked") had been transformed in so many ways by the campus uprising they experienced. <br /><br />But the clearest part of the transformation was their newfound support of Bobby Seale and the Black Panther Party. In a former NJ dairy-farm town, with a total African American population that could be enumerated (at that time) on my fingers and toes (with digits to spare), our new local newsletter followed the national program that Jimmy Higgins describes arising in New Haven. Articles such as "The Black Panther Party …in reality" are examples. <br /><br />The fact that this article suggested that government antipathy was based on misinformation notwithstanding, these college students had come home with a program based on those three demands Jimmy enumerates.Just a little youngernoreply@blogger.com