[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] Re: SIUC Protests Book

[Joy]

Hello Tom,

    I will take it off your hands if the book is still available.  Please 
advise.

In Peace,
Joy George
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Abram" <tabram at gmail.com>
To: <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>; "SFcore" <sf-core at yahoogroups.com>; 
<Peace at lists.chambana.net>; "Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center" 
<imc at lists.ucimc.org>; "Allan Keith" <allank at webtv.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Peace] Re: SIUC Protests Book


> Allan sent me a copy and requested I pass it along.  Let me know if
> you'd like one.
>
> Tom Abram
>
>
>
> On 5/17/08, Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Allan advised me in an email that he is willing to send his book to any
>> activists interested in it for just $5 (and he'll pay the postage.) Mine
>> arrived quickly after I sent him my check.
>>
>> While I've only had the time to flip through it quickly, Allan provided
>> these comments by others who've taken time to read it. As a historian
>> with an interest in radical movements of the last half-century, as well
>> as what lessons it holds for the present, Allan's analysis of this
>> home-grown resistance to oppressive power and lawless authority is worth
>> consulting.
>>
>> Here's Allan's contact info:
>>
>> Allan H. Keith
>> 217-235-0995
>> PO Box 882
>> Mattoon IL 61938
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike Lehman
>>
>> Allan Keith wrote:
>>> Mike -- You might want to read some of the comments shown here ------
>>>
>>>
>>> ___________________________
>>>
>>>
>>> Chris Wissmann, editor of Nightlife, a weekly newspaper in the
>>> Carbondale area, has written kind words about Allan H. Keith's new book
>>> "SIUC's Days of Dissent: A Memoir of Student Protest."
>>>
>>> He wrote that the book differs from some other books about the period at
>>> SIUC "by focusing less on the street actions of the protest movement and
>>> delving into the workings of student government, the conflicts between
>>> liberals and radicals in the movement, media coverage and other more
>>> neglected angles."
>>>
>>> Keith's book, along with other books about the period, "tells  an
>>> important piece of this story and readers should treasure" all of the
>>> books, Wissmann wrote.
>>>
>>> Wissmann wrote that Keith's book "preserves in a straightforward manner
>>> an era in Carbondale's history that many would rather forget, or maybe
>>> worse, romanticize. While Keith laments in his conclusion the dearth of
>>> activism at SIU after the Seven Days in May, the book makes it clear
>>> that the protest movement at SIU was an important and serious but often
>>> dangerous endeavor -- if good things came through the protests they
>>> sometimes did so at a substantial cost to the city, university and local
>>> citizens who were beaten, tear-gassed and raided (sometimes without
>>> warrants) by police."
>>>
>>> ______________________________
>>>
>>> A Carbondale resident who was a student at SIUC at that time commented
>>> on the book this way: "Congrats on putting the book together. Very
>>> readable. Names I hadn't heard in years leap from the pages. We need
>>> reminders like this. Thanks."
>>>
>>> Another SIUC grad wrote this about the book: "I will be sharing this
>>> book with my children who have heard all the stories from me -- and
>>> probably believe only half of them. Thanks for remembering!"
>>>
>>> A librarian emailed: "The accounts of this time need to be told. The
>>> students of today need to know what the college experience was back
>>> then."
>>>
>>> An ex-SIUC activist emailed: "Very enlightening trip in a time machine
>>> back to the late 60s. Thank you for writing this detailed account of
>>> those years of protest."
>>>
>>> A professor in Massachusetts emailed: "I think local histories and
>>> memoirs like this are very valuable because they become building blocks
>>> for other forms of history. This one is especially useful because it is
>>> written by a journalist."
>>>
>>>
>>> Click below for details about the book.
>>>
>>>
>>> Allan H. Keith
>>> 217-235-0995
>>>
>>> PO Box 882
>>> Mattoon IL 61938
>>> I occasionally have problems with my webtv email. If you have reason to
>>> believe that I might not have received one of your emails  (such as not
>>> getting a reply from me) please try:  akeith_us at yahoo.com
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> http://community-2.webtv.net/allank/SIUCBook/
>>>
>>
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