The 1970s were a complex, multilayered, and critical part of a long era of profound societal change. The Hidden 1970s explores the distinctiveness of those years, a time when radicals tried to change the world as the world changed around them. This powerful collection is a compelling assessment of a wide variety of left-wing social movements during a period that many have described as dominated by conservatism or confusion.
The Hidden 1970s Histories of Radicalism Brecht Forum, NYC 14 October 2010 www.brechtforum.org
With Dan Berger, Andy Cornell, Vikki Law, Matt Meyer, Ben Shepard & Meg Starr
The 1970s were a complex, multilayered, and critical part of a long era of profound societal change. The Hidden 1970s explores the distinctiveness of those years, a time when radicals tried to change the world as the world changed around them. This powerful collection is a compelling assessment of a wide variety of left-wing social movements during a period that many have described as dominated by conservatism or confusion.
Join author/editor Dan Berger and various contributors examine critical and largely buried legacies of the 1970s and discuss their essays which provide fascinating insight into the myriad ways that radical social movements shaped American political culture in the 1970s and how they continue to do so today.
Dan Berger is the author of Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity, and the coeditor of Letters From Young Activists. A longtime anti-prison activist, his writings have appeared in a variety of scholarly and leftist publications. He is the George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.
Victoria Law is a writer, photographer and mother. She is a co-founder of Books Through Bars--New York City, an organization that sends free radical literature and books to prisoners nationwide, and editor of the âzine Tenacious: Writings from Women in Prison. She is also the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (PM Press 2009).
Andy Cornell is a writer, educator, and organizer living in Brooklyn, New York. He has been active in labor, global justice, independent media, and other movements for over a decade. He is completing a history of 20th century anarchism in the United States and his essays have appeared in Clamor, LiP, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, MRzine, and elsewhere.
Benjamin Shepard, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Human Service at New York School of Technology/City University of New York. He is the author/editor of six books including Queer Politics and Political Performance: Play, Pleasure, and Social Movement, White Nights and Ascending Shadows: An Oral History of the San Francisco AIDS Epidemic, From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization. His forthcoming works include: Play, Creativity, and the New Community Organizing, Community Projects as Social Activism: From Direct Action to Direct Services, and The Beach Beneath the Streets: Exclusion, Control, and Play in Public Space (co authored with Greg Smithsimon). Further his writing has appeared in anthologies including, Nobody Passes, Thatâs Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, Democracyâs Moment: Renewing Democracy for the 21st Century and Teamsters and Turtles: Leftist Movements Today and Tomorrow, and journals including: Working USA, Radical Society, Lambda Book Review, Monthly Review, Sexualities, the Journal of Progressive Human Services, Antioch Review, Monthly Review, and Drain. He has done organizing work with ACT UP, SexPanic!, Reclaim the Streets New York, Times UP, CIRCA, CitiWide Harm Reduction, Housing Works, and the More Gardens Coalition. http://www.benjaminheimshepard.com/
Matt Meyer is an educator-activist, based in New York City. Founding PJSA Co-Chair along with USF Dean Jennifer Turpin, Meyer has long worked to bring together academics and activists for lasting social change. A former public draft registration resister and chair of the War Resisters League, he continues to serve as convener of the War Resisters International Africa Working Group. With Bill Sutherland, Meyer authored Guns and Gandhi in Africa: Pan-African Insights on Nonviolence, Armed Struggle and Liberation, of which Archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote, "Sutherland and Meyer have looked beyond the short-term strategies and tactics which too often divide progressive people . . . They have begun to develop a language which looks at the roots of our humanness." Meyer is author of Time is Tight: Transformative Education in Eritrea, South Africa, and the U.S.A., based in part on his experiences as Multicultural Coordinator for the NYC Board of Education's Alternative High Schools and Programs. He has edited the Fellowship of Reconciliation's "Puerto Rico: The Cost of Colonialism;" War in Africa and an African Peace; and the forthcoming two-volume Seeds of New Hope: African Peace Studies for the 21st Century.
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