What is the story you want to pass on to your children and their children? Yesterday, on the fifty-fourth anniversary of the Kent State murders, I posted on Facebook and LinkedIn about the comparisons between campus protests then and now. Two weeks to the day after the four murders, on May 18, 1970, I became one of 132 students arrested at the Michigan State University student union during a peaceful discussion on racism. I was the first one arrested because I was standing closest to the door when the arrests began. I was the only one thrown into solitary confinement because I refused to sign my fingerprints. The event led directly to my dropping out of college and becoming part of the underground press, the independent, noncorporate, antiwar press. My […]
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