In the Company of Rebels. Chellis Glendinning

      

      In the COMPANY of REBELS

      Also by Chellis Glendinning

       Nonfiction

       luddite.com

       Chiva: A Village Takes on the Global Heroin Trade

       Off the Map: An Expedition Deep into Empire and the Global Economy

       My Name Is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization

       When Technology Wounds: The Human Costs of Progress

       Waking Up in the Nuclear Age

       Fiction

       Objetos

       Poetry

       HYPER: An Electromagnetic Chapbook

       Theater

       De un lado al otro

      In the

      COMPANY of REBELS

      A GENERATIONAL MEMOIR OF BOHEMIANS, DEEP HEADS, AND HISTORY MAKERS

       Chellis Glendinning

      New Village Press • New York

      Copyright © 2019 Chellis Glendinning

      All Rights Reserved. Except for brief portions quoted for purposes of review, no part of this book may be reprinted, reproduced, or utilized in any medium now known or hereafter invented without prior permission in writing from the publisher.

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      Paperback ISBN: 978-1-61332-095-2

      Available also in hardcover and digital formats

      Publication Date: May 2019

      First Edition

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Available online at http://catalog.loc.gov

      Front cover photo: A protester against the shutdown of the communal

      People’s Park in Berkeley. Photo credit: Ted Streshinsky. Courtesy of the film Berkeley in the Sixties ©1990.

      Back cover and Author page photos: Portrait of Chellis Glendinning, 2010.

      Photo credit: Anton Brkic.

      Dedication photo of Danny Schechter (opposite): Photo credit and courtesy of Joyce Ravid.

      Cover design: Gayle Grin

      Interior design and composition: Jordan Wannemacher

       In memory of a shooting star, Danny Schechter

      I believe the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity, is daring to dare.

      —MAYA ANGELOU

      CONTENTS

	Preface: Be Historic
I.	BERKELEY: A LIKELY PLACE TO BEGIN Pat Cody: In the Center of It All (1923–2010)
II.	EYES ON THE PRIZE IN CLEVELAND Hooker Glendinning: Doing What There Is to Do (1920–1985)
III.	THE PALEOLITHIC AT SMITH COLLEGE Paul Shepard: Subversive Animal (1925–1996)
IV.	MAKE LOVE NOT WAR: BERKELEY IN THE ‘60S Marty Schiffenbauer: Master of Political Invention (1938–) Tom Hayden: Political Animal (1937–2016)
V.	I’D LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT. AFTER ALL, WHERE WOULD WE BE WITHOUT IT? ECOLOGY IN SAN FRANCISCO Marc Kasky: The Madcap Ecologist (1944–) Ponderosa Pine: Sidewalk Soles (1932–2014)
VI.	THE ROARING INSIDE HER: FEMINISM Susan Griffin: The Ardent Intellectual (1943–) Lucy Lippard: Social Collagist (1937–) Sabra Moore: Aprons and Art (1943–) Morgan Alexander: Our Own Gertrude Stein (1939–2016)
VII.	IRON JOHN: THE MEN’S MOVEMENT