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JIm Simons : Remembering Cam Cunningham
Former Movement lawyer Cam Cunningham passed away this month. Photo by Alan Pogue / The Rag Blog.Defending the Movement:Remembering Cam Cunningham In 1971 we cleaned out our firm bank account and took off by car to the May Day action … Continue reading
Jim Simons : Sargent Shriver and the Forgotten War Against Poverty
Sargent Shriver. Photo from Time/Life. Sargent Shriver, warrior against poverty (1915-2011) R. Sargent Shriver, the exuberant public servant and Kennedy in-law whose career included directing the Peace Corps, fighting the War on Poverty, ambassador to France and, less successfully, running … Continue reading
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Tagged JFK, Jim Simons, LBJ, Peace Corps, Sargent Shriver, Sixties, War on Poverty
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Paul Baker : Giant of Texas Theater Dies at 98
Paul Baker in front of Dallas Theater Center, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1960. Photo by Eliot Elisofon / Life Images.Giant of Texas theater Paul Baker:Director, educator, firebrand dies at 98 See ‘Paul Baker at Baylor: A student remembers,’ by … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts, Baylor, Censorship, Dallas, Educators, Guerrilla Theater, Jim Simons, Texas
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Molly Chronicles: Serotonin Serenade
Molly Chronicles: Serotonin Serenade, by Jim SimonsPlain View Press, ISBN: 978-1-891386-75-6 As we all wonder how to work out of the quagmire of Iraq, we can benefit from recalling American radical tradition, specifically the movement law commune born in the … Continue reading
















