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I Was Arrested 1965. I Had Come Back From The Merchant Marines, Got Into Conversations About The War. I Had Never Heard Of Vietnam Until I Was In The Merchant Marines In Constitution Square In Athens, And I Picked Up The New York Herald Or The International Herald Tribune And There Was My First Introduction Of The Word Vietnam.

One Of The Great Crimes Of The Bloomberg/klein Administration [in New York City] Is That They've Removed Themselves From Communities, As If Communities Have Nothing To Say About What Their Needs And Aspirations Are For Themselves And For Their Children.

I Found The Place Where I Was Beaten Bloody Forty Years Earlier And Dragged To Jail And That Made Me Cry. When The Family Came Out, That Made Me Cry, And The Reason I Had A Hard Time Leaving Grant Park Was That To See A Million People Like That, Feeling The Way That Million People Felt, Was So Exhilarating.

I Would Say When I Went To Michigan. It Started. I Got Very Very Involved In Civil Rights In Ann Harbor Right Away. Picketing, Something I Never Even Knew Existed.

[martin Luther King] King Was A Socialist And King Was An Activist Who Was Really A Radical By The End.