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Category Archives: 1970s

Happy birthday, Camilla

March 24, 2021

This is Camilla Hall. Today would have been her 76th birthday. She was an artist, a social worker, a gardener, …

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7 Takeaways from “Judas and the Black Messiah”

February 21, 2021

Last night I watched Judas and the Black Messiah. I’ve read a lot about the Black Panthers and other 1960s …

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Sometimes it seems so little has changed

February 10, 2021

It makes sense that Camilla Hall’s letters to her parents became more political in 1968, one of the most tense …

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Radical moves gain attention

February 2, 2021

I’m excited to watch this movie about the trial that resulted from the 1968 protests at the Democratic National Convention. …

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Frustration that leads to violence

January 27, 2021

We have seen recently how years of frustration can boil over into violence. Today’s domestic terrorism threat comes from the …

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A peek into a tumultuous White House, 1973

January 13, 2021

I’m a little late to the party, but I’ve been listening to the “Bag Man” podcast about Spiro Agnew, hosted …

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Don’t dismiss female revolutionaries

December 18, 2020

Female terrorists have generally been thought of as only going along because someone (a man) has lured them in. But …

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The allure of the 1970s

December 7, 2020

“The idea of ‘loosening the self’ not only underpinned specific 1970s enthusiasms—for jogging, natural foods, voluntary communities, and the geodesic …

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  • RT @brevitymag: “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” ~ Anaïs Nin 19 hours ago
  • I'm sharing this with everyone I know who is drafting a #memoir. #writing #writingcommunity twitter.com/GuerillaMemoir… 2 days ago
  • Oh yeah, the agenting process is frustrating. This piece by @GuerillaMemoir takes a professional view on the proces… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 4 days ago
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