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Introduction

Slonecker, Blake

Pages: 1 –9

[On the morning of August ii, 1968, something brazen was happening in the Harlem basement of Liberation News Service (LNS)—a news outlet akin to the Associated Press of the New Left underground media. A small gang was systematically stripping the office of printing press and paper, files and...

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Magic! Uniting the Underground Press

Slonecker, Blake

Pages: 13 –30

[On the eve of the 1967 Pentagon March, 200 newsies representing underground newspapers from all over the United States gathered in an abandoned loft near Washington’s Logan Circle to hear a sales pitch from Marshall Bloom and Raymond Mungo. But amid the chaos of impromptu poetry readings,...

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“Hello, Goodbye”: The LNS Split

Slonecker, Blake

Pages: 31 –43

[In early 1968, Sheila Ryan walked free from the Washington Women’s House of Detention, where she had been jailed for six months for her role in a White House sit-in to protest federal indifference to the civil rights crisis in Selma. The dislocation of her prison term had been jarring, yet her...

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Down on the Farm: Privacy and Community

Slonecker, Blake

Pages: 47 –57

[When Marshall Bloom moved Liberation News Service (LNS) to a country commune he told Abbie Hoffman that the relocation was “politically correct,” citing Karl Marx to buttress his argument. For six months packets from Liberation News Service, Massachusetts (LNS-Mass), rolled off the press in the...

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Liberation Limited: Sexuality and Tragedy

Slonecker, Blake

Pages: 59 –69

[Richard Wizansky and Laurie Dodge were already boyfriends when they hitchhiked to Packer Corners, Vermont, to help establish a new communal farm on Memorial Day 1968. Even on that first trip to the farm, their friends recognized the magnetism between those two very different communards. Wizansky...

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Karass: Family

Slonecker, Blake

Pages: 71 –82

[When Henry David Thoreau reflected on the Merrimack River passage between Manchester and Goffstown, Massachusetts, from his 1839 canoe trip with his brother, his mind wandered to meditations on friendship: My Friend is not of some other race or family of men, but flesh of my flesh, bone of my...

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Good Politics: The SDS Split and Third World Marxism

Slonecker, Blake

Pages: 85 –98

[When Allen Young returned to New York from the World Youth Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria—a Communist celebration that he had been attending as the Liberation News Service (LNS) split unfolded—he discovered an LNS altogether distinct from that which he had left only a few weeks earlier. Everyone in...

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The Ratio: Women’s Liberation

Slonecker, Blake

Pages: 99 –110

[The 1969 Dissolution of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) produced hope that the burgeoning women’s liberation movement might establish a firm position of leadership in the New Left. At the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) II National Convention on Thanksgiving 1969, a faction of women...

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The Collective Will: Gay Liberation and Cubaphilia

Slonecker, Blake

Pages: 111 –124

[During the winter of 1970–1971, a letter from an anonymous group of gay Cubans arrived in Liberation News Service’s (LNS’s) Claremont Avenue mailbox via a group of New York gay liberationists. Such an occurrence was not unusual. The collective received correspondence from radical groups all...

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Lovejoy’s Nuclear War

Slonecker, Blake

Pages: 127 –135

[The winter of 1973–1974 passed like any other at Montague Farm: the autumn harvest had provided a bounty of produce now canned and preserved; snow blanketed the land; and the busy season of physical labor gave way to quiet months of introspection. One detail, however, scarred Montague Farm’s...

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